Have you seen the news?

Health care is such a fast changing environment it's difficult to keep up with what is happening in the NHS.

With some many different sources of information, it can sometime be hard to know where to start, especially with the increase in fake news on social media and beyond.

But we can help.

Our Daily Health News service scans feeds from over 60 different sources every day. We review them and the ones we think you will find most useful are then posted onto our Blogger site, giving you just one place to look if you want to find out what is new in health and the NHS.

We don't include a lot of clinical items (you can find more of that via our Twitter account). Our feeds include:

• Local media coverage of Northamptonshire health issues
• NHS, DoH and other government sites
• Think tanks like the King's Fund, Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation
• Royal Colleges
• Voluntary groups and charities
• Health related news sites like OnMedica
• Mainstream media sites like the BBC, and newspapers including the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian

You can access this service in a number of different ways:

• Visit the web site
• Subscribe to our RSS feed (you can find it here)
• Most conveniently - you can subscribe to the service by email and receive one message a day with a digest of all the news, complete with links to take you straight to the item. Simply enter your email address here and you will be sent a confirmation email. Once you have clicked on the link in the email your subscription will be live. We will never use your email address for anything else or share it with anyone, and you can unsubscribe from the service at any time.

Our Daily Health News Service is an easy way to keep up to date with the issues facing the NHS and health care and we hope you will find it useful...

Web site(s) of the month - health events and awareness days

There are a lot of health related events, awareness days, weeks and even months and it can be difficult to keep up with all the campaigns and know what is happening when.

Here is a few sites that can help you keep up with all the things going on throughout the year.

• Awareness Days UK Upcoming awareness events (not just health related), UK and international
• Healthline Health awareness calendar
• Inclusive Networks Diversity and awareness days calendar 
• NHS Employers Calendar of national campaigns 2018 to 2019 table
• Public Health England Campaign Resources Centre information on, and resources to support all of PHE's campaigns. 
• Time to Change Mental health calendar

Web site of the month: NIHR Search Signals

NIHR Search Signals

Designed to make important research evidence easily accessible to clinicians, practitioners and managers, the NHS National Institute for Health Research have set up a service called Search Signals as part of their Dissemination Centre Portal.

Each week they publish three or four new ‘Signals’ – short summaries of health research that have appeared recently in peer-reviewed journals.

This is a free, open access site and is fully searchable. Anyone can sign up on the website to receive a monthly update of all Signals that are published, or choose to receive Signals in particular categories.There is also an RSS feed available.

This summer the Dissemination Centre launched a new product: ‘My Signals’, which gives different readers’ personal perspectives on research published in the Signals format. The latest of these has been selected by two surgeons.

Search Signals is a great way to keep up to date with short summaries of the latest evidence and expert commentary.  Highly recommended.

To sleep perchance... New blog on sleep research.

Interested in the latest research on sleep and sleeplessness? There is a brand new blog covering just this topic.

The Sleep Bulletin is produced by the Joint Education & Training library at Mid Cheshire Hospitals and will feature research articles around this topic. There isn't huge amounts of content on the blog yet but it will grow over time and is well worth a look if you have a professional (or personal) interest in sleep and insomnia.

Stay up to date with our daily health news service

There is a huge amount of news coverage of the NHS. With some many different sources of information, it can sometime be hard to know where to start, especially with the increase in fake news on social media in this "post-truth" age.

But we can help.

Our Daily Health News service scans feeds from over 60 different sources every day. We  review them and the ones we think you will find most useful are then posted onto our Blogger site, giving you just one place to look if you want to find out what is new in health and the NHS.

We don't include a lot of clinical items (you can find more of that via our Twitter account). Our feeds include:

• Local media coverage of Northamptonshire health issues
• NHS, DoH and other government sites
• Think tanks like the King's Fund, Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation
• Royal Colleges
• Voluntary groups and charities
• Health related news sites like OnMedica
• Mainstream media sites like the BBC, and newspapers including the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian

You can access this service in a number of different ways:

• Visit the web site
• Subscribe to our RSS feed (you can find it here)
• Most conveniently - you can subscribe to the service by email and receive one message a day with a digest of all the news, complete with links to take you straight to the item. Simply enter your email address here and you will be sent a confirmation email. Once you have clicked on the link in the email your subscription will be live. We will never use your email address for anything else or share it with anyone, and you can unsubscribe from the service at any time.

Our Daily Health News Service is an easy way to keep up to date with the issues facing the NHS and health care and we hope you will find it useful...

Web site of the month: Daily Health News

Do you struggle to keep up with the volume of health related news? Want to stay current with policies, reports, publications, events and media coverage?

It's hard to know where to look, with so many different sources of information out there, but we can help.

Our Daily Health News service scans feeds from over 60 different sources every day. We look through them and the ones we think you will find most useful are then posted onto our Blogger site, giving you just one place to look if you want to find out what is new in health and the NHS.

We don't include a lot of clinical items (you can find more of that via our Twitter account). Our feeds include:

• Local media coverage of Northamptonshire health issues
• NHS, DoH and other government sites
• Think tanks like the King's Fund and Health Foundation
• Royal Colleges
• Voluntary groups and charities
• Health related news sites like OnMedica
• Mainstream media sites like the BBC, and newspapers including the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian

You can access this service in a number of different ways:

• Visit the web site
• Subscribe to our RSS feed (you can find it here)
• Most conveniently - you can subscribe to the service by email and receive one message a day with a digest of all the news, complete with links to take you straight to the item. Simply enter your email address here and you will be sent a confirmation email. Once you have clicked on the link in the email your subscription will be live. We will never use your email address for anything else or share it with anyone, and you can unsubscribe from the service at any time.

Our Daily Health News Service is an easy way to keep up to date with the issues facing the NHS and health care and we hope you will find it useful...

Evidence for everyday nursing and midwifery

The UK Cochrane Centre have started a new social media based service to share the latest evidence in nursing and midwifery called Evidence for Everyday Nursing and Evidence for Everyday Midwifery.

The service offers evidence on common topics in nursing or midwifery in short summaries they call "blogshots" (like the one below), with links to the full evidence (often Cochrane reviews), if you want to look further.

See the evidence at the Cochrane Library

The service is available across a number of social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest.

We think following the the hashtags #EENursing or #EEMidwifery on Twitter is the easiest way to keep up with what's new (and if you are unsure about Twitter you can contact us for help).

This is a very easy way to keep up to date with the latest evidence affecting everyday practice, and also a useful resource in helping with revalidation. You can even share it with your colleagues or the wider professional community.

If you want more information you can find it on the Evidently Cochrane blog.

Stay up-to-date with some of your favourite journals with the Ovid Today app

Did you know you can get access to all the electronic journals the library gets from Ovid through a single free iPad app?

Ovid Today lets you browse, read and save your favourite journals directly from your iPad. With Ovid Today you can:

• Stay up to date with the very latest journal content (including publications ahead of print
• Access 6 months worth of rolling content
• Search for and select your favourite Ovid journals to follow
• Browse specialisms and journal tables of contents
• Read a PDF of any article
• Create a personal reading list and add articles to review later

To get started with Ovid Today simply download the app from iTunes (it is not currently available for Android devices). If you are a registered member of library you will then need to contact us to obtain the OvidSP ID and password to gain access to our journals. If you are not registered with us you will need to come into the library.

Once your account is set up you will be ready to start adding the journal titles you are interested in to your carousel, and away you go...

The titles you can currently access via the app include:

• A&A Case Reports 
• AJN, American Journal of Nursing 
• Anesthesia & Analgesia 
• Anesthesiology 
• Annals of Surgery 
• Bone & Joint Journal 
• BJS, British Journal of Surgery 
• Cancer Nursing 
• Case Connector 
• Circulation 
• Critical Care Medicine 
• Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology 
• Essential Surgical Techniques 
• European Eating Disorders Review 
• Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (Am) 
• Journal of ECT 
• Journal of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery 
• Neurology 
• Neurology Clinical Practice 
• Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation 
• Obstetrics & Gynecology 
• Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery 
• Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery – Global Open 
• Spine 
• Stroke

Loss of saved searches and alerts from Medline and PsychINFO on the 1st April

If you have searches saved or alerts set up in either the Medline or PsychINFO databases you have until the 31st of March to act or you will lose them.

When NICE re-tendered for the National Core Content, the contract for these two databases went to a new supplier (ProQuest). Because of the differences between the two products, it will not be possible to replicate searches undertaken on the old versions when the transfer to ProQuest is made.

This applies to both HDAS (on the NICE Evidence Services site) and the native Ovid SP platform.

You will need to download any searches or alerts that you wish to keep. You can find instructions on how to do that on page 7 of this document.

Once the transition to the new database supplier has been made, you will then be able to re-enter your searches or alerts on HDAS after July 15.

If you have any questions or problems please contact us.

Ebola resources

Ebola virus courtesy of CDC Global

With the current Ebola outbreak featuring constantly in the media, and the possibility that there will be another UK case at some point, we thought it might be useful to produce a short list of information resources relating to Ebola.

UK Material

Department of Health 
The main source for the official announcements is Ebola - the UK government response

You can also get all updates from the UK Government by subscribing to the Ebola RSS feed or subscribing to an email news list.

Public Health England www.gov.uk/government/collections/ebola-virus-disease-clinical-management-and-guidance 

Ebola virus disease: clinical management and guidance for NHS Trusts and primary care

Expert interview: Is Ebola a risk to the UK? A blog from PHE's Director of Global Health  https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2014/10/15/expert-interview-is-ebola-a-risk-to-the-uk/

Association of Ambulance Chief Executives http://aace.org.uk/ebola-guidance-wider-resources/
Aimed at ambulance staff

NHS Choices www.nhs.uk/conditions/ebola-virus/Pages/Ebola-virus.aspx
Overview of Ebola, it's transmission, treatment and travel advice

Royal College of General Practitioners www.rcgp.org.uk/clinical-and-research/clinical-resources/ebola.aspx Common sense guide to Ebola for GPs and their teams

International Material

World health Authority www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/en/

Situation reports on the current outbreak, fact sheets, technical information, publications and guidance

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control  
www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/ebola_marburg_fevers/Pages/ebola-outbreak-west-africa.aspx
EU based epidemiological information, together with risk assessments, surveillance information and more.

US Centre for Disease Control www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/index.html
The US based Centre for Disease Control has a dedicated section on it's web site which includes lots of information about symptoms, transmission, risks and the ongoing outbreak.

CIDRAP www.cidrap.umn.edu/infectious-disease-topics/ebola
Produced by the Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, the site features news, analysis, resources and literature.

Doctors without Borders www.msf.org.uk/ebola

Interactive guides on Ebola, the current outbreak, treatment, a timeline for the outbreak and a blog featuring posts from people involved all over the world.

EbolaAlert www.ebolaalert.org/
A West African site run by volunteers featuring news, links to resources and more.

Médecins Sans Frontières  www.msf.org.uk/ebola

Information on the crisis in West Africa

Evidence Aid www.evidenceaid.org/ebola/
Information resources aimed at decision makers from the Oxford based organisation.

You can also stay up to date via Twitter using the hashtag #ebola

Free access journal article and information collections

• BMJ www.bmj.com/ebola
• DynaMed http://health.ebsco.com/dynamed-content/ebola
• The Lancet Ebola Resource Centre http://ebola.thelancet.com/
• New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/page/ebola-outbreak
• Oxford University Press Ebola World Health Emergency  www.oxfordjournals.org/en/our-journals/medicine-and-health/ebola.html
• PLOS ONE Ebola virus www.plosone.org/browse/ebola_virus
• PLOS One Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses www.plosone.org/browse/hemorrhagic_fever_viruses
• PubMed free full text articles http://1.usa.gov/ZG5bZS
• Sage journals Ebola collection 
• http://connection.sagepub.com/blog/2014/08/29/free-access-to-a-collection-of-journal-articles-related-to-ebola/
• Science  - Ebola Collection www.sciencemag.org/site/extra/ebola/
• Thomson Reuters Disease Briefing: Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever http://tmsnrt.rs/ZG5vb3
• Thomson Reuters Special Report: The Push to Contain Ebola Virus http://www.bioworld.com/content/special-report-push-contain-ebola-virus
• UpToDate: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations of Ebola and Marburg virus disease http://bit.ly/1Dfp0WB
• UpToDate: Diagnosis and treatment of Ebola and Marburg virus disease http://bit.ly/1Dfp9JO 

With thanks to Keith Nockels at Leicester University who suggested many of these resources. 

Updated 13th November 2014

The helpful elves keeping you up to date with reliable research & guidance

The Mental Elf is a web site produced by Minervation and aims to keep you up to date with the latest research and guidance in mental health.

The site contains short, snappy summaries of relevant evidence based publications and is updated several times a week. A free weekly newsletter is also available.

The Mental Elf also has some friends:

• The Dental Elf
• The Diabetes Elf
• The Learning Disabilities Elf (The WELD blog)

All highly recommended.

Eyes on Evidence - March

Eyes on Evidence - March:

Eyes on Evidence is a free monthly e-bulletin from NHS Evidence which covers significant new evidence as it emerges, with an explanation about what it means for current practice. The articles also contain hyperlinks to relevant articles, NHS Evidence and NICE Guidance.

In this month's issue:

• Behavioural strategies to influence antibiotic prescribing
• Health risks and benefits of bicycle sharing schemes
• Health checks for people with learning disabilities
• New risk prediction tool for venous thromboembolism
• NHS Evidence Resources - European Medicines Agency
• NHS Evidence QIPP case study: repeat measurement scheme for glaucoma
• Cochrane quality and productivity topics

To view the latest edition, browse the archive, or subscribe by email visit www.evidence.nhs.uk/about-us/publications

Find us on Twitter

You can now find us on Twitter.  We'll aim to keep you up to date with news relating to the service, new publications, events and other things you may find of interest...

Follow @NHFTNHSLibrary

Latest travel, transport and weather news for Northamptonshire

If you want to keep up with the latest weather news, warnings from the Met Office or travel disruptions, we can help. Our Netvibes site has a page dedicated to helping you get around.

As well as weather, you can find news on travel across the East Midlands and beyond, maps, route planners to make your journey a little easier and links to local and national public transport including rail, coach and air.

The site also features lots of other news services covering many aspects of health and the NHS.

Netvibes is easy to use, but we have also created a guide on how to get the best from the service which you can find on our web site.

Eyes on Evidence bulletin

Eyes on Evidence is a bulletin produced by NHS Evidence. It will keep you updated with new and important evidence and related guidelines. Subscribers can also contribute to the letters page where readers can submit comments and feedback on articles and evidence contained in previous issues. 

The bulletin comes out on the second Wednesday of the month and can be sent to any email address. 

The latest issue of Eyes on Evidence features a meta-analysis examining the effect of radiotherapy after surgery, excision of melanoma, the comparative effectiveness of different drug therapies for psoriasis and staggered paracetamol overdose.

To subscribe to Eyes on Evidence go to the sign up page on NHS Evidence and enter your preferred email address. You can view previous issues on the NHS Evidence publications page.

Need to keep up to date with the latest news? Try our Daily Health News service

If you want to keep up with the latest news, policy, commentary, publications and events in UK health care, we can help. With so many different sources of information available, it's hard to know where to start, let alone keep up with them all.

This is where our daily health news service comes in.  We scan over 60 feeds from different sources every day and publish the the things we think will be most useful to you on our Blogger site.

We use feeds from the Department of Health, NMC, NHS Confederation, major newspapers, the BBC, Kings Fund, NICE and and many more. We try to ensure any major health related story being covered in the media is included, as well as reports and other relevant information.

You can access the service in a number of ways:

• Via our site on Blogger http://nhftlibrariesdailyhealthnews.blogspot.com/
• By RSS feed (you can find it here).
• By email, with all the day's news sent straight to you inbox. Just enter your email address here and once you have clicked on the link in the confirmation email you will receive, the service will be live. We won't use your address for anything else and you can unsubscribe at any time. 

You can also find out more about this and other current awareness services we offer (like our Netvibes site) on the Keeping up to Date page of our web site.

We hope you find it useful...

Major changes to Google Reader will effect our Health News Service

Daily Health News

The Official Google Reader Blog has announced some major changes to the service from next week (currently the exact time scale is unclear), including the removal of the sharing feature. This means that shortly we are no longer going to be able to use Google Reader to provide you with daily news updates.

Google say the sharing functionality will be added to their Google Plus platform, but we will need to investigate whether that can provide us with the same service, or whether we will need to seek an alternative.

Consequently their may be some interruption in the service whilst we investigate Google Plus and see what alternatives to the existing Google Reader service may be available.

WELD – Working with Evidence about Learning Disabilities

The WELD blog aims to bring you the latest learning disabilities evidence that is published each week. They scan a wide variety of websites, databases and journals and select evidence that is relevant to health and social care professionals with an interest in learning disabilities.

The daily posts include summarised published evidence, policy guidance, reports and links to primary sources. The site is fully searchable and also offers RSS feeds of both entries and comments made by users.

You can find it at: http://www.weldblog.net/

New Guide to Netvibes Now Available

What does netvibes do? It allows us to bring together information from lots of different web sites and put it all in one place. It provides all our users with a single dashboard showing the last health news, policy, comment, publications and events, without having to go to lots of different places to find the information. 

Our site covers topics such as the NHS White Paper, mental health, primary care, health care policy and management, public health, and information management & technology. You will find continually updating news feeds from the NHS, NICE, the DoH, Government, CQC, Royal Colleges, King's Fund, voluntary organisations, clinical journals, the BBC, newspapers, weather, travel and transport news (covering local and national items), links to useful health related information and much more.

You can find it here: www.netvibes.com/northantspslibraries

Although its very easy to use, netvibes can appear a little daunting at first, so we've created a new guide on how to get the best from it. The guide will show you how the site works, how to find the information you need and even how to share it with friends and colleagues.  

Of course, you can always contact us if you have any questions about netvibes, or any of the other services we provide...

Bloglines, Google Reader, Netvibes and Current Awareness

We have now finished the transfer of our current awareness services to Google Reader and Netvibes.

You can find our current awareness service aimed at NHS managers now on Google Reader. To make life easier, you can also subscribe to it and an email will be sent to you giving you the lastest updates once per day. To access that just follow this link and enter your email address (we won't use your address for anything else).

The rest of our current awareness services have now been transferred to Netvibes. Our netvibes site will allow you to keep up to date with the latest news, events, publications and even journal articles.