New collection of electronic journals available

We have bought a new collection of electronic journals. The Emerald Health and Social Care collection gives us access to over 30 titles covering topics such as mental health, learning disabilities, offending and health care management

Titles available include:

• Advances in Dual Diagnosis
• Advances in Mental Health & Intellectual Disabilities
• Clinical Governance
• International Journal of Healthcare Quality Assurance
• Journal of Adult Protection
• Journal of Forensic Practice
• Journal of Health Organisation & Management
• Journal of Integrated Care
• Leadership in Health Services
• Mental Health Review
• Tizard Learning Disability Review
• Working with Older People
• ...and many more

The journals are all available via your OpenAthens account, and you can access them via the My Journals service on the NICE Evidence Services site (you'll also find the titles appearing if you search the databases). There is a handy guide to accessing journals on our web site if you need any help. 

If you don't already have an Open Athens account you can register for one here.

Web site of the month: King's Fund reading lists

The Library Service at the King's Fund has produced a series of topic related reading lists. The lists are a really useful starting point if you are looking for information on a variety of NHS issues.

The topics covered are more managerial than clinical and include:

• Age discrimination
• End of life care
• Financial pressure in the NHS
• Inpatient mental health services
• Integrated care (partnership working and commissioning & contracting)
• NHS leadership
• Staff engagement
• Technology in healthcare
• ...and many more

Each contains links to full text online documents, as well as books, journal articles, reports and other relevant material.

You can see our own collection via the library catalogue, and  if you can't find an item from any of the lists just let us know and we'll source it for you. 

Care and support White Paper published

The Department of Health has published the ‘Caring for our future: reforming care and support’ White Paper, which sets out the vision for a reformed care and support system, with a focus on wellbeing and independent living.

You an also find out more on the Department's Caring for our future web site, including videos featuring ministers, graphics on how the proposed new changes will work, how the bill will affect service users, carers, service providers and professionals, and more.

White paper supporting documentation

• Care and Support Bill factsheets
• Frequently asked questions
• Impact assessment summary
• Impact assessment annex a: reform of adult social care legislation
• Impact assessment annex b: independence, choice and control
• Impact assessment annex c: assessment and eligibility
• Impact assessment annex d: quality providers and workforce
• Equality analysis
• Bringing clarity to quality in care and support
• Government response to the House of Commons Health Committee report on social care
• Reforming the law for adult care and support: the Government's repsonse to Law Commission report 326 on adult social care

Bill supporting documentation

• Q&A on the health-related clauses in the Bill
• Impact assessment - Health Education England
• Impact assessment - Health Research Authority
• Equality analysis - establishing the Health Research Authority as a non-departmental public body
• Equality analysis - establishing Health Education England as a non-departmental public body

Consultations

• Draft Care and Support Bill consultation
• Consultation on new safeguarding powers
• Caring for the future: summary of engagement responses
• Caring for the future: analysis of engagement responses

Responses and reactions

• Age UK
• Alzheimer's Society
• Association of British Insurers
• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
• Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
• British Association of Social Workers
• Care and Support Alliance
• The Carers Trust
• Carers UK
• Foundation Trust Network
• Help the Hospices
• Institute of Economic Affairs
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• The King's Fund
• Labour Party
• Law Commission
• Law Society
• Local Government Association
• Macmillan Cancer Support
• Marie Curie Cancer Care
• Mencap
• NHS Confederation
• The Nuffield Trust
• The Patients Association
• PricewaterhouseCooper
• Royal College of Nursing
• Royal National Institute of Blind People
• Social Care Institute for Excellence
• Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers
• Think Local Act Personal
• TUC
• UNISON
• Which?

Emerald Management First - information for managers

Are you looking for information on healthcare management? The library has a subscription to a package aimed specifically at health managers. The Emerald Management First site includes access to a collection of electronic journals, plus lots of other content.  

http://first.emeraldinsight.com

New for 2011! Our subscription now includes access to a grand total of 120 e-journals which you can access from your desktop, both at work and at home. You can also access the site from your mobile phone via this link. The subscription includes access to journals in several different collections including:

·   Health Care Management

·   Human Resource Management

·   Education

·   Accounting and Finance

·   Information and Knowledge Management

·   Learning and Development

·   Industry and Public Sector Management

·   Managing Quality

·   Strategy

Additional content includes:

·   Articles written by practicing experts on healthcare and management,  HR, finance, marketing and other topics

·   Case studies

·   Briefings

·   Interviews

To access this resource, (and lots of others too), you will need an Athens password. If you don’t already have one, click on this Athens Self registration link.  It’s easy to do and takes just a few minutes. If you’d like to find out more about Emerald Management First, you can download our user guide here or you can contact us.

Off the Shelf library newsletter now available

The latest issue of our newsletter, Off the Shelf, is now available. This special issue focuses on sources of information for managers and looks at a number of different resources including Emerald's Health Management First service, management related databases, full text electronic journals, the NHS Evidence specialist collections, and even how to access some of this material from mobile devices.

You can find Off the Shelf in the publications section on our web site

New Quality & Productivity Specialist Collection at NHS Evidence

The new specialist collection is the central resource of evidence on how to improve quality and productivity in the NHS. Evidence is organised around care pathway groups.

The examples of improvements range from one-off studies in single organisations to robustly tested large scale changes that have been replicated in multiple organisations and have had results published in academic journals. A selection of the examples have been highly recommended as potential high impact changes, these can be found under the Recommended section.

The collection launched in December 2009, and will evolve and expand overtime to build a comprehensive library of quality and productivity evidence. The aim of the collection is to provoke thoughts, ideas and discussions about changes that can be made locally in the NHS.

To access the collection go to: www.library.nhs.uk/qualityandproductivity