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EBSCO will be performing scheduled maintenance Saturday 29th June, 03:00 – 07:00 am on the e-journal full-text access servers. This may affect your access to their databases and ejournals during this time. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

The National Patient Safety Agency is part of the Department of Health that looks to improve patient safety. You can view the patient safety incident reports . Data is collated in order to identify trends and so develop resources. You can access links to a range of data including alerts and incident reports, as well as a number of toolkits and guidance on best practice. You can search the resources by topic, healthcare setting or clinical specialty. The latest news is available here .

If you are having problems accessing our electronic resources such as ebooks, ejournals, databases and articles, please can you let us know by completing our eResources Technical Support form online . Please provide as much information as you can on the form. This will be sent to the eresources librarian who can then investigate the issue and we will get back to you to help you to resolve the problem if possible. This process will help us to identify common problems and raise specific issues with our suppliers. Hopefully issues can then be tackled more speedily and corrected. Your help with this is much appreciated

In response to users’ concerns we have installed a hand sanitiser within the Health Library. You can find this located on the wall outside the photocopier room. Please use this as you see fit.

You can now access a bunch of new Oxford Handbook titles online, including Oxford Handbook of… Acute Medicine Cardiology Clinical Medicine Public Health Practice Rheumatology We also have new online editions of the Oxford Handbook of… Clinical Specialties Clinical Surgery Geriatric Medicine Paediatrics Psychiatry Urology As well as the latest edition of the Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme. You can access all our ebook titles from the catalogue or find all the online Oxford Handbook titles in our ebook collection on our website. These ebooks are available to both our Keele and NHS users. You’ll need your Keele or NHS Athens username to read the full-text. Try an online ebook instead So try our ebooks... You don’t need to wait Access when you need it Avoid fines For more help on using ebooks try our short etutorial or check out our guide .

The TRIP database is a search tool that will help you to find good quality research evidence. It can help you to find synopses, systematic reviews, guidelines and key primary research as it searches across a wide range of healthcare specific resources; You can also find information such as images, videos, patient information and more. The search engine is freely available on the Internet. Type your keywords in to the search box for a simple search or use the advanced search options for more complicated searching. Screen-shot of an example search in TRIP There is also an option to perform a PICO search, Don’t know what PICO is? Find out in our PICO etutorial . There are a number of videos to help you to get to grips with TRIP, and you can follow their Facebook page   for more information on new features and releases.

Need more help finding the right good quality evidence? Want to make the most of your NHS Athens account? Planning your dissertation? Get your skills up-to-date and familiarise yourself with all our resources; try one of our ** free ** training courses. Topics available include: Health Essentials Online Using NHS Athens Literature Searching Rapid Critical Appraisal Cochrane Library introduction and more Find the right course to help you whether you work for our NHS partners or are a Keele University member of the library. Our training courses can help to support KSF and RCN competencies as well as the Distinctive Keele Curriculum . Book online now or get in touch with Rachael or Mariet, our training librarian team .

There are a number of different sources you can use to gather statistics about healthcare issues and populations. Office for National Statistics The Office for National Statistics (ONS) collate and publish statistics on a wide range of issues that affect the UK population. They have a section for Health and Social Care   Here you can find datasets and published reports on:     Access and Waiting Times     Health Care Patients     Hospitals and Health Care Facilities     Health Care Personnel, Finance and Performance     Mental Health Services     Maternity and Pregnancy Services     General Practice Services     Dentistry and Eye Care Services     Pharmacy Services     Lifestyles and Behaviours     Conditions and Diseases     Health and Safety     Causes of Death ...

If you are starting your dissertation, thesis or research project you should take a look at our collection of online ebooks that are available to help you. We have gathered together a collection : Get started – planning your project, background to research and methodology Appraise the Evidence – how to read a paper or complete a literature review Evidence-based Medicine – what is it? Using Statistics – need a little help? Try here Writing up and getting published – hints and tips to help you get it right You will need your Keele computer username and password or your NHS Athens login details to read the full-text of ebooks. For more help using ebooks, try our etutorial or watch the short video below.

We have noticed that some students are experiencing problems renewing their library books online. Please telephone the library renewals line on 01782 679577 and we will renew them for you, if possible. Can all staff and students who are borrowing books over the Summer vacation please note that items may still be recalled by other borrowers and you should have a contingency plan for returning your items.

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month. Titles include: Cancer in children : clinical management / edited by Michael C. G. Stevens, Hubert N. Caron and Andrea Biondi God bless the NHS / Roger Taylor Life as a medical student: the good, the bad and the ugly / Sihame Benmira Nuclear medicine: the requisites / Harvey A. Ziessman, Janis P. O'Malley, James H. Thrall. Oxford textbook of vertigo and imbalance / edited by Adolfo M. Bronstein The approved mental health professional's guide to mental health law / Robert Brown The midwife's labour and birth handbook / edited by Vicky Chapman and Cathy Charles The sociology of health and illness / Sarah Nettleton New eBooks: Critical practice / By Catherine Belsey. Emergency care of minor trauma in children : a practical handbook / Ffion C.W. Davies, Colin E. Bruce, Kate Taylor-Robinson. Illustrated clinical anatomy / By Peter H. Abrahams ... [et al.]. Psychiatry / Neel Bu...

Are you looking for a case report on an unusual condition or do you want to publish an interesting case you have been dealing with? If you work for University Hospital of North Staffordshire you can use BMJ Case Reports. This is available to you via your NHS Athens username and password and is accessible from our Health Resources page . We have already had a number of staff who have been published.

Click here to access the bulletin. This bulletin is produced by the North Staffordshire NHS Outreach Library and Information Service for Primary Care Trusts in North Staffordshire. It aims to draw attention to some of the key documents and reviews on health inequalities which have been published in the previous two months. Sources covered include: NHS Evidence, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund.

Click here to access the bulletin This bulletin is produced by the North Staffordshire NHS Outreach Library and Information Service for Primary Care Trusts in North Staffordshire. It aims to draw attention to some of the key documents and reviews on clinical effectiveness that have been published in the previous month. Sources covered include NHS Evidence, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund.