Health Library News

NHS Evidence recently published the following Evidence Updates : Improving outcomes in head and neck cancers (May 2012) focuses on a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE cancer services guidance ‘Improving outcomes in head and neck cancers’ (2004). Familial breast cancer (May 2012) focuses on a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE clinical guideline 41 ‘The classification and care of women at risk of familial breast cancer in primary, secondary and tertiary care’ (2006). Sedation in children and young people (May 2012) focuses on a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE clinical guideline 112 ‘Sedation for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in children and young people’ (2010). Constipation in children and young people (June 2012) focuses on a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE clinical guideline 99 ‘Diagnosis and management of idiopathic childhood constipation in primary and secondary care’ (2010).

Map of Medicine has been upgraded to include a number of new features: New ways of searching for pathways including A-Z and specialty searching Bookmarking your favourite content Professional development certificates Example of new search tools You can use Map of Medicine to search for evidence-based care pathways for a wide range of conditions and diseases. You can access it via NHS Athens username and password. For more information, including video tutorials go to Map ofMedicine Resources . I’ve also added links to the Map of Medicine videos on our YouTube channel .

You can now get up-to-date, reliable information on policy, guidelines and the latest systematic reviews from a series of blogs published by Minervation Ltd. Subjects covered include: Mental Health   Musculoskeletal Diseases   Dental Health   Diabetes   Learning Disabilities   Lifestyle   These blogs have been added to our current awareness service where appropriate. You can use these resources to keep an eye on the latest significant releases of research or to use as discussion items during journal clubs.

Stand by for the annual Grand Autumn Book Sale .... coming to the Library soon. Look out for more information at the beginning of term.

Elsevier are carrying out maintenance to their systems. This will affect access to Science Direct and users will be unable to access our ejournal titles provided by this platform:  ** 12:30 PM GMT Saturday, August 25th - 7:30 AM Sunday, August 26 th Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

The Health Library will be closed on Bank Holiday Monday 27th August 2012. Remember that you can still access all our online resources .

Our training section of the website has been reorganised. You can now see what training courses are most relevant to you, whether you work at the UHNS   or for the NHS within the community or are a Keele student or member of staff . You can also find out what special support is available to you.

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.

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month. Titles include: 100 cases in acute medicine / Kerry Layne, Henry Fok, Adam Nabeebaccus. Anaesthesia for emergency care / edited by Jerry Nolan, Jasmeet Soar. Developing advanced skills in practice teaching / edited by Anne Smith, Heather McAskill and Kirsten Jack. Handbook for psychiatric trainees / edited by Dinesh Bhugra and Oliver Howes Nuclear cardiac imaging : principles and applications / edited by Ami E. Iskandrian, Ernest V. Garcia.  New ebooks include: ABC of stroke / edited by Jonathan Mant, Marion F. Walker.  Cardiac rehabilitation manual / Josef Niebauer, editor.  Clinical neuropsychology: a practical guide to assessment and management for clinicians / edited by Laura H. Goldstein, Jane E. McNeil.  Exercise therapy in the management of musculoskeletal disorders / edited by Fiona Wilson, John Gormley, Juliette Hussey.  The evidence base of clinical d...

Keele University have updated their email system. This has affected staff email addresses as well as the email address for the Inter-Library Loan team. All the new email addresses are listed on our Contact Us page. Please update any contact lists that you might have.

The 8th edition (2012) of the ever-popular Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine is now available in the library.

The template that we use for our Current Awareness Service appears to have changed, reducing the visibility of the colour scheme that we use. I have had to change the colour scheme to something which will allow me to use colour-coding in the feed headings. Please bear with me while I check all the tabs to endsure that they provide the right information. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Access to Medicines Complete appears to have stabilised. However if you do encounter any problems please let the eResources Librarian know.

Athens / Eduserv are carrying out maintenance between 07:00am and 9:00am Tuesday 31st July. There may be temporary disruption affecting login and admin functions. NHS Evidence are carrying out maintenance between 5:00pm and 6:00pm on Tuesday 31st July. The NHS Evidence website (including HDAS and My Journals etc) will not be available for some time during this maintenance window. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES Around 1 in 12 people throughout the world live with chronic hepatitis B or C, yet awareness of this disease is inexplicably low. World Hepatitis Day , an event created by the World Hepatitis Alliance , aims to raise awareness of the huge scale of this viral infection, informing people of who might be at risk and about how to avoid infection. The event is coordinated by patients, for patients, aiming to prevent not only new infections, but also to deliver improvements in the health outcomes for people living with hepatitis B or C. Here at the Health Library we have numerous resources related to Hepatitis and Hepatology. In the lists below you’ll find information on our most popular items, materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items simply click the links below, go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. M O S T   P O P U L A R - Comprehensive clinical hepatology / Bruce R....

The NHS network PCs, in the IT Suite, are now available. We apologise for the inconvenience caused whilst the PCs were unavailable last week.

We are experiencing problems accessing Medicines Complete. This is available for NHS users at UHNS and North Staffs Combined Healthcare via Athens username and password. Athens have suggested using the following link which may be more stable until we sort the problem out: https://www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/athens.htm Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin no. 353, Monday 9th July 2012, please click here

Unfortunately the NHS network PCs, in the IT Suite, are not available for use this morning due to a water leak. NHS users can request a temporary login at counter, in order to use the Keele network to access the internet. However the NHS intranet will not be accessible. We apologise for the inconvenience and hope to have the problem sorted soon.