The Researcher

Available online now

The Researcher is an open access (i.e. free) online magazine, produced by, and aimed at the research community in the NHS. It is published by Health Education England, the NHS National Institute for Health Research and the North West R&D team.

The first issue features articles on

• careers in health research
• the benefits to your career of being a research participant 
• an "agony aunt" answering research questions
• what it is like to be a researcher
• and more

For anyone interested in health care research, this title is well worth a look

Get an introduction to what we can offer you in our new promo video

Regular readers may recall a while ago we blogged about the filming that was taking place in the libraries. Our two student film makers both completed promotional videos for the Library Service and we are very pleased with the results.

We have uploaded the first video to our YouTube channel. Keep an eye out for the second one which will feature later in the year.

This video will give you a glimpse of who we are and what we can do to support NGH and NHFT staff in practice and education.

New books and journal added to Clinical Key

Elsevier have added new electronic books and a journal to Clinical Key this month, including:

Journals

• Journal of Cancer Research and Practice (2014 to present)

Books

• 2017 Intravenous Medications (Gahart, Betty) 33rd ed
• Brocklehurst’s Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (Fillit, Howard) 8th ed
• Brown’s Atlas of Regional Anesthesia (Farag, Ehab) 5th ed
• Fetal and Neonatal Physiology (Polin, Richard) 5th ed
• Instant Work-ups: A Clinical Guide to Medicine (O’Connell, Theodore) 2nd ed
• Orthopedic Physical Assessment (Magee, David) 6th ed New to CK
• Weir & Abrahams’ Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy – formerly Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy (Spratt, Jonathan) 5th ed
• Weedon’s Skin Pathology Essentials (Johnston, Ronald) 2nd ed

Clinical Key is a fantastic, easy to use resource that contains huge amounts of full text content including:

• 1,400 topic pages
• Over 600 electronic journals 
• Over 1000 electronic books
• 850 First Consult monographs
• 17,000 + medical / surgical videos
• 300 + Procedures Consult videos
• 15,000 patient education handouts
• 2.2 million images
• You can find a full content list here

To access Clinical Key all you need is your OpenAthens password (register online here if you don't have one) to get started.

Stocking up on holiday reading? Buying a new shed? Find out how your Amazon purchases could help the Library

Buying the latest bestseller for the beach? Planning a new revamp in the garden? Treating yourself to a new tablet for your holiday?

If you're an Amazon customer you can help our budget go a little bit further just by clicking a link before you start shopping.

By clicking on the "buy it now" link in our catalogue, on our web site (or from this blog), a percentage of the price of anything you buy will come to us, all at no additional cost to you.

It doesn't matter if you are buying a book, clothes, a barbecue, music downloads or something expensive like a lawnmower or new computer, we will get a percentage of the purchase price.

The tracking ID will stay on your computer for 24 hours, so anything you purchase from Amazon in that time will automatically be included.

"What's the catch?" you may ask. There isn't one.

Clicking on the link doesn't change what you pay to Amazon, and we can't see what you have bought.

Clicking the link just means we get some money back which we can then invest in the library service to help make what we do go a little further.

So please, if you are going to be shopping with Amazon, help us at the same time as you engage in a little retail therapy, and use our Buy It Now link to send a little of Amazon's profits our way.

Web site of the month: Disclosure UK

A rather different site than normal this month. Disclosure UK is produced by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) and is a move towards increasing the transparency in the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and health professionals. You can find more about the initiative and an introductory video on the web site.

The site contains a large database of payments or benefits in kind that have been made by 109 pharmaceutical companies in the UK to doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals (approximately 70% of professionals have agreed to have their details disclosed).

The database can be searched via the site and you can specify organisations or individuals. You can also download the entire data set for free.

Disclosure UK is a step forward in public understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and the public sector.

Happy birthday NHS!

The NHS was founded 68 years ago today. It has seen a huge amount of change and innovation throughout its history.

To find out more about the history and development of the NHS the Nuffield Trust have an interactive timeline, which runs from the Beverage report in 1942 to the present day.

NHS Choices also have a history of the NHS from 1948 to today and the BBC have a guide to how Britain built the NHS

The People's History of the NHS site has a virtual NHS musesum with galleries of images covering a wide variety of topics. They also have an encyclopedia with related articles.

There is also a great public information film from 1948 on the benefits of the new NHS called Your Very Good Health which is available on YouTube.

Anenurin Bevan, Minister of Health, on the first day of the National Health Service, 5 July 1948 at Park Hospital, Davyhulme, near Manchester