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.

Latest Weather & Traffic News Now Available

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Jamie McClement

Planning a journey? Worried about the snow? If you need the latest news and information on traffic, weather, delays, holdups and roadworks you can find it all in one place on the Travel, Transport & Weather tab of our netvibes site.

There are also planners to produce  routes and maps to make your journey easier.

If you aren't travelling by car, you will also find links to public transport information including local bus & coach services, trains, the tube and even airports.

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.

Advance Warning - Bloglines is closing

We currently use Bloglines for a number of current awareness services, but sadly the site is going to close on the 1st of October.

We are currently reviewing the Blogs we produce. Some will be transferred over to Google Reader and continue, whilst others will be replaced by our Netvibes service.

Liberating the NHS White Paper: Information on Our Netvibes Site

We have updated our Netvibes site and added a new section on the NHS white paper. You'll find links to the DoH, King's Fund, NHS Evidence and other sites with information on the white paper, as well as feeds with the latest news and comment.

Our Netvibes site is an easy way to stay up to date with developments in UK healthcare and also has a number of other sections covering Primary Care & Commissioning, Public Health, Management, Mental Health, NHS IT and others, as well as national and local news.