Health Library News

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month. Titles include: Call the midwife: a true story of the East End in the 1950s / Jennifer Worth Core clinical cases for medical students: a problem-based learning approach for succeeding at medical school / Joy Chang and Chirag Mehta Leadership and management for all doctors / General Medical Council Problem solving in respiratory medicine & allergy / edited by Richard Leach, Christopher Kosky, Elizabeth Hadley, Boris Lams Treatment plans and interventions for depression and anxiety disorders / Robert L. Leahy, Stephen J.F. Holland, Lata K. McGinn. Check the catalogue for the full collection. Join our Facebook page for the latest info about our popular titles.

To read the Mental health and social care bulletin no. 336, Monday 27th February, please click here

The Commissioning subject links page has been updated to include a range of new resources to help support commissioners. You can also view them on our delicious feed

We have had a problem with our online request forms. These were not being received, even though the form indicates that it has been submitted. We believe the problem has been corrected now. However if you have made an online request since Monday 20th Feb and have not received a response from us please can you contact the Health Library. Apologies for the inconvenience.

To read the Mental health and social care current awareness bulletin no.335, Monday 20th February 2012, please click here

To read the Mental health and social care current awareness bulletin no.334, Monday 13th February 2012, please click here

To read the Mental health and social care current awareness bulletin no.333, Monday 6th February 2012, please click here

We appear to be experiencing problems with our online forms. Despite the form submit going to completion we are not receiving the requests. We are currently looking at the problem and hope to have a fix soon. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Message from NHS Evidence regarding NHS access to Zetoc: “NHS Evidence access to Zetoc will stop on the 31 March 2012 due to a change in the terms and conditions for access to Zetoc which the NHS cannot comply with. NHS Athens users will lose access to Zetoc from 1 April 2012 onwards .   A message to this effect will be placed beside the ZETOC link at https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/nhs-evidence-content/journals-and-databases . We apologise for this unanticipated loss in service due to factors beyond our control. NHS Evidence are continuing to explore all possible options for future access to Zetoc.”

There are 10 more copies of the popular titles Medicine at a Glance now available on the Health Library shelves.

We have 10 more copies of the popular title General Surgery: Lecture Notes available at the Health Library – expected on the shelves later today.

There are 4 more copies of the book Long-term Conditions: a guide for nurses and healthcare professionals available to borrow - check the shelves later today.

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.

Latest news picked via the Twitterverse… @nicecomms: Have produced a new e-learning module on the management of hip fracture , in collaboration with the #BMJ  New health-based current awareness portal from CASH  Reports and briefings from the National Horizon Scanning Centre @OfficialNHSC for Cancer and Palliative Care   The latest Evidence Update from @NHSEvidence on Bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia . Top Tips for GPs in #heartfailure cards have been updated by @NHSImprovement. @NHS Improvement: Interactive #pathway for teenage and adult aftercare (cancer) now available For more Follow us on Twitter …

The NHS Evidence site will be undergoing maintenance between 5pm and 6pm on Tuesday 7th February 2012. Apologies for any inconvenience caused during this time. This may affect access to the search facilities as well as journals and databases.

We now have the 3rd edition (2011) of the Oxford Handbook of Rheumatology available in the Health Library

We use a number of different platforms to provide you with access to our ejournal collection – such as Elsevier ScienceDirect and Wiley Online Library. It can sometimes be a bit confusing working your way around the different interfaces to find your articles and some of them have a number of strange quirks. To try to help you out we have created some online guides; here you can learn: Where the Athens login link is Find journal titles View journal articles What’s weird? You can find the guides on our NHS eJournals Tips & Hints page . Let me know if you find these useful or whether you have any trouble with a particular platform.

We have put together a collection of useful nursing textbooks that you can access online – no waiting, no overdue fines, available now.

The latest edition of the text Data Interpretation for Medical Students has come in and will be available to borrow later today.

The Oxford textbook of Medicine is now available online to Keele students. You will need your IT computer username and password in order to access it off-campus – click the “sign-in” link at the top right-hand corner; follow the institution link and select Keele University from the drop-down box. You will then be prompted for your IT username and password.