Health Information Week 2022 - Long Covid

Health Information Week is a national, multi-sector campaign promoting high-quality information for

patients and the public.

The theme for today's Health Information Week post is all about living with Long Covid. 

There are a lot of good quality resources available to support patients and their families living with the burden of long Covid available online.

General web sites

• Your Covid Recovery www.yourcovidrecovery.nhs.uk/
• Long Covid Kids www.longcovidkids.org/
• Long Covid Support www.longcovid.org/

Patient Information

• SIGN, NICE and the Royal College of General Practitioners: Covid: a booklet for people who have signs and symptoms that continue or develop after acute Covid-19  www.sign.ac.uk/media/1825/sign-long-covid-patient-booklet-v2.pdf
• Royal College of Occupational Therapists: How to manage post-viral fatigue after Covid-19 www.rcot.co.uk/node/3540 (produced by the )
• NHS: Long-term effects of coronavirus (long COVID) www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/long-term-effects-of-coronavirus-long-covid/
• Patient Info has lots of different articles on long Covid https://patient.info/search.asp?searchTerm=long+covid&collections=All

You can find a complete list of resources, including more links, books and podcasts on the Health Information Week web site here.

We are working on reopening

The Library Service is working towards reopening the physical library sites. 

The Trust is currently undertaking risk assessments of the library spaces for reopening and once this has been completed, action plans will be produced to put in place all the measures necessary to allow us to safely welcome our users back.

We are still providing all of our services remotely, so if you need a book or journal article, a literature search, training or anything else please contact us and we will endeavour to help.

We hope to see you soon.

Free access to Oxford Medicine Online

https://oxfordmedicine.com/

Oxford University Press have offered free access to the entirety of Oxford Medicine Online until the end of June to support the NHS during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Oxford Medicine Online contains a large amount of titles from OUP, all accessible via your OpenAthens log in.

We have also added the books with links to the full text to our library catalogue to make them easy to find (and of course, you can find all of our other stock on the catalogue too).

Just click the link in the catalogue record, scroll and click on ‘Sign in via your institution’ on the left hand side then select ‘NHS in England’ to log in with your NHS OpenAthens account. If you don't have an NHS OpenAthens account, you can register online for one here.

OUP have also put together a free selection of resources, journal articles and book chapters specifically on COVID-19, coronaviruses and related subjects which you can find here. 

All library training cancelled

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (of which Library Services is a part) has decided that all training should be cancelled until at least the end of June as part of their response to the COVID-19 situation.

We are sorry that we can no longer provide this training but there are some online alternatives that you could use.

Health Education England have provided an online course in planning a search and using the Healthcare Databases (HDAS) to carry it out. You can do the training without logging in but if you do it will not record your progress. If you wish to log in you can use an NHS OpenAthens account.

You will also need an OpenAthens account to use the NHS databases for searching for journal articles (module 7). If you do not have one you can register from here. If you already have an account but have problems with it please contact the library.

Once on the HDAS site there is more help available from these 2 pages: https://hdas.nice.org.uk/help/ and https://www.nice.org.uk/about/nice-communities/library-and-knowledge-services-staff/training-materials (which includes links to help videos on YouTube).

If you need a work-related literature search done then you can also contact the library and ask us to do that for you.

There is an online tutorial on critical appraisal. This covers RCTs, systematic reviews and economic evaluations and in each case there is a tutorial and a paper that you can download to appraise and then check your answers against the ones on the site.

The Understanding Health Research site also has a tool which guides you through a series of questions to help you to review and interpret a published health research paper.

We hope these will help, but if you have any questions regarding training, literature searching or critical appraisal, please contact one of the libraries.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) information

In light of the ongoing situation with the COVID-19 virus we have put together a short list of useful resources.

Department of Health and Social Care / Public Health England:

• Coronavirus latest news and announcements
• Coronavirus: latest information and advice for the public
• Coronavirus action plan
• NHS informaton on coronavirus
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): list of all guidance
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): UK government response

In the light of the current outbreak, a number of publishers have made information on the virus freely available.

Journal articles and research:

• BMJ: Coronavirus: latest news and resources
• BMJ Best Practice: Covid-19 
• Elsevier: Novel Coronavirus Information Centre has clinical guidance, patient education material and nursing care plans in English and Mandarin
• The Lancet: Coronavirus Hub
• New England Journal of Medicine: 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
• Springer Nature: Novel Coronavirus (2019CoV)  
• Wiley: Coronavirus Research

Other useful information:

• Public Health England Library and Knowledge Service Finding the evidence: Coronavirus (Links to resources, research and updates)
• CDC: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• China CDC: Tracking the Epidemic Number of cases and deaths (in English) 
• World Health Organization: Coronavirus

News sources:

• BBC News: Coronavirus Outbreak
• CNN: Coronavirus News
• FullFact: Facts on Wuhan coronavirus (Debunking fake news stories about the outbreak)
• The Guardian: Coronavirus Outbreak