Health Library News

We have renewed a number of our Ovid ejournal titles that are available to our NHS Athens users. These include: A & A Case Reports Age and Ageing American journal of nursing (AJN) American journal of occupational therapy American Journal of Surgical Pathology ANAESTHESIA Anesthesia and Analgesia Anesthesiology Annals of Surgery BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Bone & Joint Journal British Journal of Surgery Cancer Cancer Cytopathology Cancer Nursing Circulation Clinical journal of pain Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology Critical Care Medicine Current opinion in anaesthesiology Current opinion in critical care Current opinion in psychiatry Current Orthopaedic Practice JAMA Jour...

Access to British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA) and BJA Education has changed for UHNM staff. These titles are now available via Science Direct. To access the full-text, log on to the NHS Journals A-Z list with your Athens login , search for the title and click the Science Direct link for the current subscription. Screen-shot of the BJA titles on the NHS Journals list

Eating Disorders Awareness Week is an international awareness week, and every year Beat focuses on issues that matter to people affected by eating disorders. This year’s campaign to raise awareness for eating disorders is “Sock It to Eating Disorders” . Eating disorder sufferers face an average wait of three and a half years for specialist treatment. During that time, by far the longest gap came between symptoms first emerging and people recognising these as an eating disorder. Almost as much time went by between this realisation and people taking the step to ask for help from their GP. By raising awareness of the early signs, and showing that sufferers need and deserve help, you can make a real difference. The sooner someone gets help, the faster they can recover, lessening the impact on their life, family and future. So by wearing your socks at your workplace, school, or university and donating to Beat, you play a vital role in ending pain and suffering. For more information ...

Medicines Complete will be updating their interface soon. You can find out more about the changes here . Changes will include: More intuitive search for faster access to content Improvements to layout and navigation Dosage Card features MC Calculators To keep abreast of the updates and ongoing drug changes you can sign-up to the Medicines Complete newsletter . Medicines Complete is an online reference tool, allowing you to search across a range of medicine reference books. Keele users  – log in via shibboleth using your Keele computer login details NHS staff  – log in via openathens, using your NHS Athens username / password All users will be able to access the BNF and BNFc.  We have purchased extra resources for Keele users as well as NHS staff at UHNM and North Staffs Combined Healthcare such as: AHFS Drug Information Handbook on Injectable Drugs Kucer’s the Use of Antibiotics Stockley’s Drug Interactions And more… The books ava...

Keele Undergraduates and NHS members can now borrow up to 20 items from the Library. You can find more information about your borrowing rights on our web page .  Don't forget that any items you borrow will be automatically renewed unless... the item is requested  by another member you owe the library £10 or more If you are asked to return a book you must do so within your loan period or you will incur fines.

I f you are embarking on a placement or elective during Semester 2: You are welcome to continue to loan items from the library, but please be aware that normal loan periods will still apply. Items may be requested by another user and recalled. Late return of requested items will still incur fines. Automatic renewals will run as normal, but if you wish to try to avoid having an item potentially due for return at a time when you really cannot come in, you can attempt to renew your books early via your account on Library Search.