Health Library News

A new target has been set to reduce patient waiting times to a maximum of 18 weeks by December 2008. To help achieve this, the End Waiting, Change Lives website provides a 5 step guide on how to improve waiting times. The site contains information on waiting time statistics, case studies from across England and information for patients. Additional resources can be found at the No Delay Achiever website which offers a 7 step guide to improving patient experience. Details on how to obtain your free 18 week patient pathway planning wheel can be found here .

Please be aware that it is Keele policy that all outstanding library fines are cleared prior to the start of the new academic year on 29th September. No new items can be issues or renewed until all monies owing have been paid. Note that from the week beginning 8th September if you wish to renew any items, they should be brought back to the library in person. The change over from vacation time to term time on the library issue system requires that library staff must manually return and re-issue books in order to renew them. As all books borrowed by Keele students are due either on the 29th or 30th September, it may be advisable to bring all renewals in prior to these dates to avoid lengthy queues.

The latest scheduled training timetable is now available for sessions throughout 2008. If you are looking to find the best places for health information, need help understanding the new interface used to search for journal articles or how to manage your references or information updates, then why not visit the library website and book on a course. Please remember that if the times for time-tabled sessions don't suit, you can always contact the training team on 01782 556583 to arrange training in the class, workplace or one to one session. All courses can be linked to KSF dimensions IK2 & IK3.

The Health Library will be closed on 25th August for the bank holiday. Please note that we will be open for business as usual over the Saturday and Sunday.

The British Library table of content service ZETOC is now available to NHS and Keele employees and students via their institutional Athens logins. The database can be use to subscribe to the latest table of contents from approximately 20,000 current journals, covering a wide range of subjects including science, technology, medicine, business and law, as well as a number of non-English titles from around the world. Many of the table of contents may not be directly available from the publisher's own website. The database can also be used as a citation checker, with over 20 million journals and conference records from 1993 to date. Full information on the use of ZETOC is available via the online handbook . To learn further techniques on how to keep up to date with the latest information in your field, why not book on the Health Library Current Awareness course! Please check the Health Library website for further information.

A selected number of the prestigious Oxford Handbook series are the latest to be added to the NHS national online book collection via NHS Athens. Titles include: Oxford handbook of endocrinology and diabetes Oxford handbook of general practice Oxford handbook of midwifery Oxford handbook of palliative care Oxford handbook of practical drug therapy Oxford handbook of respiratory medicine The full collection NHS subscribed e-books can be searched through a new interface via the National Library for Health . The collection predominately favours items relating to mental health and general practice. Keele staff and students from the Health Faculty can also access these national purchases. Please contact the Health Library for further details. The full list of Keele purchased e-books can be found via the main campus library website .

The 1st August is the last day for literature searching with Dialog Datastar. The new service Search 2.0 , which replaces it, is now standalone. Yesterday it received a couple of new improvements to make it comparible with the previous system. This includes de-duplication of results, which can now be run as a final step across all the databases you have searched. Unfortunately you will need below 500 results for this to work. A clipboard function has now been installed so help you save your favourite articles from different searches in the one area. The library runs a series of time-tabled training sessions , or update sessions can be arranged for individuals or groups in the library or workplace. Please check our training pages for further information. This is still a new dynamic interface, please contact Susan Smith (E-Resource Librarian) by emailing s.w.smith@lib.keele.ac.uk, if you wish to report any problems, or if you have any queries or suggestions for improvement that can be...

Sunday 3rd August is our first day of Sunday opening. The Health Library and attached IT suite will be accessible between 1pm to 5pm. Only a basic service will be offered. If you have any complex queries or problems, please contact the Library Monday through to Saturday, when professional staff will be available.

Members of the Health Faculty will be pleased to know that the subscription to Anatomy.TV will be retained for at least the next year. Anatomy.TV is an online 3D interactive anatomy model with study guide, self testing and specialist sections. This package is available to holders of Keele Athens accounts only.

Any Keele students or staff using the Ebsco health care databases may notice some changes! The screen has a cleaner fresher look, quick hover over display of article abstracts, share your results via Facebook, MySpace, Del.icio.us etc, choose your favourite citation styles to display (unfortunately Harvard isn't in there), quickly add related reference to your saved folder (now more visible and easier to manage) and much, much more. We will be updating our training materials, so why not come along to one of our Wednesday afternoon training sessions or ask at the help desk for a guided tour. For further information please contact Mariet Schepers on (01782) 556583.

Dialog Datastar will no longer be available after 31 July 2008. THIS MEANS THAT ALL SAVED SEARCHES ON DIALOG WILL NEED TO BE MOVED TO ANOTHER LOCATION BEFORE THE END OF JULY OR THEY WILL BE LOST. If you need an update training session on the new Search 2.0 interface from the National Library for Health, please book online through the Health Library website for our library based time-tabled sessions, or contact our training team to arrange one-to-one or departmental training on (01782) 556583. Specialist assistance is available for those based primary care or combined health via the outreach service . Please contact Susan Smith (E-Resource Librarian) direct by emailing s.w.smith@lib.keele.ac.uk or by phone (01782) 556581 if you have any further queries or problems relating to the new search interface.

This months has seen the publication of Next Stage Review - High Quality Care For All. This entry will gather together the main documents and a selection of the coverage. The coverage includes a number of good summaries. There were three main documents published at this point - 1) High quality care for all : NHS Next Stage Review final report (30th June 2008) Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham KBE The final report of Lord Darzi's NHS Next Stage Review. It responds to the 10 SHA strategic visions and sets out a vision for an NHS with quality at its heart. This link includes the full document and a summary version. For a very brief summary Darzi review: At-a-glance BBC or Main points of the Darzi report FT. 2) The National Health Service Constitution - a consultation paper (30th June 2008) The proposed NHS Constitution published today, marking 60 years of the NHS , is about safeguarding its core principles and values for the next generation, whilst setting a clear direction for t...

This week is the 60th Anniversary of the National Health Service. To celebrate this achievement, the University Hospital of North Staffordshire is opening up a selection of departments for public access on Saturday 5th July, including the Clinical Education Centre. For further information on the history of the NHS the Health Service Journal have collated a special supplement in celebration - copy available in the Health Library. Additional informationcan be found on the NHS Scotland website or the NHS Choices with interactive timeline, photo gallery and forthcoming events.

From June 26th 2008 there will be no electronic access to the New England Journal of Medicine via the library login. The online access was originally created in the days of the old Medical Institute. The login distributed at the time was the administration login. This is now in breech of the modern NEJM electronic licence. Continuing use of the login may result in loss in provision of both print and electronic format by the publishers. The library does not have the necessary funds to provide the site licence required to maintain electronic access and no alternate access is available via either national NHS purchases or Keele subscription. The print copy will remain available at the library for viewing. NHS staff with departmental accounts may request a print copy of the article be posted internally to the department (this is charged as an interlibrary request at £1 per article). Unfortunately as an American journal, our current copyright licence does not permit articles to be scan...

Due to the increasing demands on the service and budget restraints, a new fee will be introduced for the renewal of interlibrary loans borrowed from the British Library. A couple of years ago the British Library started to charge for renewing loans £3.10 per renewal, which up until now the Library has managed to cover. A subsidised fee will be introduced of £1.00 per item per renewal. The ILL team will add this as a manual fee to the appropriate library record once confirmation of the renewal has been received by the British Library.

A new charity has been established to promote awareness of the rare genetic condition alkaptonuria. The Society has a advice centre based at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital to support both patients and the medical profession. The condition is cause by the under production of the enzyme homogentisic acid oxidase which displays as ochronosis, a blue-black discoloration of connective tissue including bone, cartilage, and skin caused by deposits of ochre-colored pigment. Further information and research papers are available on the Alkapatonuria Society website .

From the 3rd August 2008, the Health Library and IT Suite will be open on Sundays from 1pm - 5pm. Please be aware that this will be a basic service with no librarians on duty. If you have any complex enquiries or problems, please contact the library by email or visit us or phone Monday to Saturday. No access will be available to the rest of the Clinical Education Centre.

The Health Library would like to welcome two new members of staff. Jayne Hickton ( jayne.hickton@northstaffs.nhs.uk ) will be replacing Marilyn Vigurs as the Outreach Librarian for the two primary care trusts, local social services and hospices. Jayne was previously a Community Librarian for Stoke-on-Trent Libraries with responsibility for Bentilee and Meir Libraries and is well versed in delivering library services within a community setting. Jayne is there to help people whom find it difficult to visit the Health Library directly. Further details of the service are available on the Health Library website . Tom Fallows ( t.j.fallows@lib.keele.ac.uk ) has joined the team as a new part-time library assistant, who will be staffing the new Sunday opening to be launched on 3rd August. Tom began working in libraries while studying for a Film degree at Plymouth College of Art & Design and has since worked at Hanley Library and several different bookshops within Stoke-on-Trent. Watch out ...

The Handbook of Practice Management is the latest key resource to be added locally to NHS Athens accounts. Full text can now be accessed online by visiting www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rsm/hpm . Access is direct via computers in the Health Library, or by NHS Athens login elsewhere. The handbook is published by the Royal Society of Medicine, and details aspects of primary care organisations and teams, people management, issues relating to drug and information managament and finance. This resource is relevant to all staff employed in a primary care setting. The online version also contains additional links to further resources.

The Medical Search tool comprises of 3 medical information search packages that can integrate with Microsoft Office applications, windows desktop, as well as a secure document sharing tool. These tools can only be accessed through computers on the NHS network (N3). The tools have been developed through support from the National Library for Health and Connecting for Health, utilises a vast knowledge bank of credible sources such as the National Library of Health evidence based medicine, guidance, medical dictionary and specialist libraries, British National Formulary and Medicines.org.uk. The search tool sits in existing popular software and can provide NHS users with easy access to reliable medical information that is completely up-to-date. The NHS Medical Search project has developed three tools to do this: The Office Research pane The first uses a feature of Microsoft Office called the research task pane. An augmented version has been developed for the NHS that allows ...