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 ... access to great online resources. Register for your NHS OpenAthens username / password so that you can use a single username to access great online content such as: Case reports Clinical decision support tools Drugs reference Exam support Full-text articles Guidelines and procedures Literature searching databases Patient information Topic Overviews Go to our NHS OpenAthens web page for all the info you need to register. Example resources More Help For more help about NHS OpenAthens: Complete our online tutorial Register with OpenAthens Check our help page for NHS OpenAthens Contact your NHS OpenAthens administrator To learn more about the resources you can access: Complete our online tutorial Finding NHS Resources

  Estimated prevalence of main eye diseases in the UK: Age-related macular degeneration 600,000 people Glaucoma 500,000 people Cataract 500,000 people Diabetic retinopathy 144,000 people National Eye Health week aims to raise the profile of optics as it encourages the public to be ‘eye aware’ with a series of initiatives inspiring greater up-take of routine sight tests and highlighting the role healthy lifestyles play in preventing avoidable sight loss. Despite the obvious challenges of 2020, the previous year’s campaign raised optics up the public health agenda with Google searches around ‘eye health’ peaking during the week – up more than 20 per cent on the next highest point in the year. For more information surrounding the importance of eye health please visit the Vison Matters, Fight for Sight and NHS Choices websites: http://www.visionmatters.org.uk/ https://www.fightforsight.org.uk/ https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/look-after-your-ey...

The Health Library will close early at 6:00pm on Thursday 9th September 2021. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. You can access online resources via our website   https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/

 You can use the Health Library Literature Search Service to help you to get the best healthcare evidence quickly.  What is the Health Library Literature Service? If you need evidence quickly we can run literature searches on your behalf. Our expert librarians will discuss your requirements with you and search the most relevant, good quality resources to find you the best evidence. You'll get a report including all the items - such as articles, reviews, guidelines and reports - which match your search criteria. This: Saves you time Gives you good quality resources Helps you get easy access Who can make a request? This service is available to NHS staff and Keele academics to support service delivery, patient care, research and professional development. Please note that this service is not available to support assignments - please contact our training team if you need help searching for information for your studies. How can you make a request? You can make a request: submit yo...

  Taken from https://www.healthline.com/health/drug-overdose - “A drug overdose is taking too much of a substance, whether it’s prescription, over-the-counter, legal, or illegal. Drug overdoses may be accidental or intentional”. International Overdose Awareness Day is the world’s largest annual campaign to end overdose, remember without stigma those who have died and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind. The campaign raises awareness of overdose, which is one of the world’s worst public health crises, and stimulates action and discussion about evidence-based overdose prevention and drug policy. It is a time to remember and a time to act. For more information surrounding substance misuse and the effects of overdoses, please visit the International Overdose Awareness Day and NHS websites: https://www.overdoseday.com/ https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/drug-addiction-getting-help/ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/poisoning/ RELATED LIBRARY RES...

 The Health Library will be closed Bank Holiday Monday 30th August 2021. Remember that  online resources will still be available via the website .

 The Health Library will close early at 8:00pm on Wednesday 25th August 2021, to allow essential network maintenance be completed. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. You can access online resources via our website .

   NHS library cards for the Health Library all have an expiry date set. NHS staff will be contacted before your card expires asking you whether you wish to renew and continue your membership.  Please make sure that you respond to ensure that your membership continues. You'll be asked to check the details we have are correct - please let us know of any changes to ensure that you are still eligible for membership. If you have any queries about your membership you can email the library at health.library@keele.ac.uk - make sure you include your library card number if possible.

  NHS OpenAthens is an authentication system. It allows NHS staff to access a wide range of different online resources using a single username / password. Complete our online tutorial  NHS OpenAthens Registration  to get the essential information about OpenAthens, how it can help you and help completing the registration form Do you just want a reminder on how to do something? Just follow our quick step-by-step instructions: Register for an OpenAthens username using the online form Move your username to a new organisation Reset your password Renew your OpenAthens account Access online resources Want more help? All the information you'll need about your NHS OpenAthens username is available on  our NHS OpenAthens web page . Or feel free to  contact your OpenAthens administrator .

 You have access to a great asset in the CEC building on the Royal Stoke University Hospital site – the Health Library! With access to resources, study areas and IT facilities we can provide you with healthcare specialist collections and a great learning space to support your career and professional work. Complete our online tutorial Using the Health Library to learn more and plan your visit today!

 Your NHS OpenAthens username gives you access to some great resources, specially selected to help you in your work and career development. These resources are not freely available on the Internet but you can get easy access with your NHS OpenAthens username. When you need… Confirmation of guidelines for diagnosis and treatment Try… BMJ Best Practice – key information for a wide range of conditions and diseases Clinical Key [UHNM only]   – articles, clinical summaries and ebooks; accessible via an easy to use clinical search engine Oxford Medicine Online – great set of renowned online handbooks, providing information for all healthcare professions When you need… To complete a literature search Try… HDAS (including Medline, Amed, CINAHL, PsychInfo, Emcare and Embase) –the HDAS interface offers a comprehensive set of features to allow you to search key healthcare databases   When you need… Full-Text Access Try… Library Search – search our library...

 Make informed, confident clinical decisions with support from Clinical Key. Clinical Key is a clinical search engine giving you access to a wide range of full-text, evidence-based, up-to-date information. Clinical Key is provided by the Library Service for staff at UHNM. Point of Care Use the smart search engine to quickly access clinical overviews, NICE guidelines and BNF / BNFc to deliver point of care diagnosis, treatment and after care for your patients. Download the mobile app so that you have quick answers to clinical questions to support ward rounds and case meetings. Professional Development Take advantage of the advanced features to continue your professional development. Use Clinical Key to: Search the latest published research Save and share articles Set up alerts on key journals Create presentations Earn CME credit How to Access Clinical Key is available to UHMN staff, via NHS OpenAthens login Go to Clinical Key Log in with you NHS OpenAthens username A...

If you missed any of our Tweets or Facebook posts during Health Information week, here are the highlights: Help your patients discover good quality health information; helping them stay healthy, manage illnesses effectively, and accomplish a better quality of life. Everyone benefits from good quality health information. Video and poster: Don't know what to believe? Think: Who? What? Where? Don't know what to believe? Think .. Who? What? Where? poster. Leaflet to support your patients to find the right information online . We put together this leaflet. The leaflet is available in the patient information library on the UHNM intranet.  Searching for good quality health information using the internet  leaflet Mood lifting books - ten books chosen by NHS staff for you to read to uplift your mood.  The books are available at Health Library at County and can be requested for collection from either Health Library at Royal Stoke or Health Library at County. Check out other online...

 Congratulations to the Hearing and Balance Clinic @UHNM_NHS you have won this prize!! Enjoy! The patient information leaflets you created were fantastic 😀 Thank you our judges Becci (PALS),  Emily (Comms), Liz @CountyHealthLib and Lindsay @CECLibrary and those who entered 👏 #HIW2021

 We have now published 75 issues of the Covid-19 Evidence Bulletin . Get the latest published research concerning covid-19 and: Infection control Diagnosis / prognosis Treatment Further resources It is an easy-to-read format and includes links to articles.  To view the latest issues check our website . To receive a copy of the bulletin in your inbox please contact Mathew Stone, mathew.stone@uhnm.nhs.uk You can find more resources on covid-19 / coronavirus from our subject page . Check here for: Public health information Shared practice Topic summaries Overviews & guidelines Literature searching help Statistics Training

  Oxford Medicine Online is an interconnected collection of online medical resources which cover every stage in a medical career. The site delivers the highest quality Oxford content while meeting the requirements of the busy student, doctor, or health professional working in a digital world. Many of these titles have earned the epithet of 'the bible of' in their respective subject areas. With online only videos, a robust updating program, self-testing functionality, downloadable images and much more - Oxford Medicine Online is a must for anyone needing authoritative information quickly. Functionality includes: Cross-search titles to find the information you need quickly Online-only features include videos and self-testing functionality Links to references and further reading  Images and figures can be downloaded to  PowerPoint, perfect for giving presentations Personalization options allow users to save books, annotations, chapters, and searches Mobile optimized New a...

News from NICE  "NICE would like to invite you to contribute to an important research project to understand views and experiences of NICE, looking at how we operate, our work and resources and our strategic ambitions.  We want to ensure that all of our users and audiences are represented in the research. We’d also really appreciate it if you could forward this email to colleagues and peers in your professional network, to ask if they could also support this work.  The results will be presented to our Board and by sharing your views you will play an important part in shaping the work we do. To take part, we ask that you complete  this short survey , which should take approximately 10 minutes, by  Friday 16 th  July 2021.   Survey link:   https://populuslive.online-host.solutions/ASP/P018813/loginP2.asp?study=P2_9 The survey is being managed by an independent research company called Yonder. All responses will remain anonymous in any reporting. ...

  Health Information week is a national campaign promoting high quality health information for a better quality of life – learn more at your Health Library.  Our patients benefit from quality health information. They:  feel informed, confident and empowered rather than overwhelmed and fearful  are more likely to follow treatment, reducing costs and reducing complaints  have stronger partnerships with you and the team and an increased understanding of their health  We are running a competition to highlight the good quality information you give to your patients. You could have prepared the information yourselves, or it could be information you give clear direction to. The format can be whatever works best in your context (but we do love a good display!)  We will be looking for:  Simple easy to understand information with minimal or no jargon  Is the information using an evidence base?  Does the information come from or does it reference a ...

Make sure you make the most of your library services.  We can save you time so you can concentrate on your clinical work. You can: Access key resources to support your clinical decisions Ask us to search the medical literature for the latest evidence for you Sign up for training to develop your digital skills Request elusive full-text articles Visit our quiet study space and computer workstations Choose to use the library at Stoke or Stafford or online Join the Library If you are an NHS member of staff working for UHNM, North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare, Clinical Commissioning Groups in Staffordshire or GP practices in Staffordshire, then join our Library Service.  Complete our application form and bring it to the library with your NHS ID badge. Want to learn more? Complete our online tutorial to learn more about how we can help you. Watch our short video to learn how to join the library:

  NHS staff can access a wide range of resources provided by the Health Library. These are specially selected to help support  your  clinical decision s , career progression and, ultimately, patient care.   Browse the list  below to learn about the  types of information available to you  and make sure to use the right type of information for the right scenario.   Categories  - use the right type of resource to get the right information   Case Reports    View unusual clinical cases and examples of healthcare practice   Clinical Decision Support Tools      Evidence-based information presented in an easy-to-read format, supporting decisions by providing  information  on  epidemiology ,  diagnosis,  recommendations, guidelines , calculations, complications , monitoring, prognosis, images, references, patient  information  and more Drugs Reference      Essential d...