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Diabetes Awareness Week June 8th – 14th June

By 2035 it is estimated that the number of people living with diabetes will rise to 535 million. Over the last two years it has led to the deaths of between 1.5 and 5.1 million people world-wide. Diabetes UK is the UK’s leading diabetes charity and aims to care for, connect with and campaign on behalf of all people affected by and at risk of diabetes; reaching people with diabetes in local communities across the UK.   This year Diabetes Awareness Week falls between the 8 th and 14 th June. The theme is ‘i Can’. Diabetes UK are seeking stories from individuals living with diabetes. In doing so the goal is to raise awareness of the disease among the population of the UK in order to prevent its increase.  For further information please see: http://www.diabetes.org.uk/ http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Get_involved/Diabetes-Week/ RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES For anyone interested in diabetes and the management of diabetes, the Health Library offers numerous resou

Access to Map of Medicine has changed

From 30 May 2014 Map of Medicine's direct access has closed. You can access Map of Medicine within the North, Midlands and East region of England. You will need either your NHS Smartcard or your NHS Athens username and password. Map of Medicine provides access to a wide range of evidence-based pathways, including local care pathways where available. There is public access to national pathways via NHS Choices Map of Medicine Healthguides .

New Oxford Handbooks Online

The Oxford Handbooks ebook collection has been updated to include new titles - Oxford handbook of: Children’s and Young People’s Nursing Clinical Skills in Adult Nursing Epidemiology for Clinicians Gastrointestinal Nursing Medical Statistics Midwifery (updated version) Pain Management eBooks can be accessed at any time and there are no fines. You can find more help on how to access ebooks via our Using eBooks etutorial or watch our video below:

New Books for May 2014

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month. Here is a selection of new titles. New books include: A manual of laboratory and diagnostic tests / edited by Frances Talaska Fischbach, Marshall Barnett Dunning III Acute medicine in the frail elderly / Henry Woodford and James George Anaesthetics for junior doctors and allied professionals : the essential guide / edited by Daniel Cottle and Shondipon Laha Atlas of human brain connections / by Marco Catani, Michael Thiebaut de Schotten Clinical anatomy : applied anatomy for students and junior doctors / Harold Ellis, Vishy Mahadevan Communication skills in mental health care : an introduction / edited by Xavier Coll, Alexia Papageorgiou, Ann Stanley, Andrew Tarbuck Ross and Wilson anatomy and physiology in health and illness / Anne Waugh and Alison Grant The modern guide to GP consulting : six S for success / Alex Watson and David Gillespie The new politics of the NHS : from creation to rein