We have a new selection of books on approval in stock at the Richmond and Berrywood libraries and would like your help in selecting which ones we should buy for our collections.
The current titles available cover topics such as CBT, psychology, general nursing, occupational therapy, mental health, cardiovascular medicine, diabetes, palliative care, patient safety and more. You can find the full list on our web site.
These titles will be available to view until Friday the 28th of March. We are also happy to have recommendations for items to purchase at any time!
The 14 minute film, Voice of Dementia shows people with dementia talking about their lives, their diagnosis and the importance of being listed to. It challenges the notion that people who receive this diagnosis are unable to have a say about their lives, and the services that they receive. The film was a collaborative production between Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust and the Alzheimer's Society Sheffield.
Evidence summaries: new medicinesare provided to help make informed decisions and aid local planning on the introduction of key new medicines or existing medicines with new indications or a new formulation. The topics selected are medicines that have recently gone into the UK market, or may be marketed in the UK in the next 6-12 months.
They both offer quality-assured summaries of the best available evidence for selected medicines. The strengths and weaknesses of the relevant evidence are critically reviewed, but the summaries do not constitute formal NICE guidance.
Health Knowledge was created for people working in public health, but contains high quality learning resources that are of use to the wider health care audience.
The site hosts a Public Health Textbook which covers all relevant public health skills and competencies and is free to access (as are all the things on Health Knowledge).
You will also find a number of e-learning resources covering epidemiology, health information and statistical methods. Each comes with a pre-course assessment, learning materials and ends with a final assessment which is graded and can be printed off for recording against CPD.
As well as the e-learning content there is a section of interactive learning material which includes presentations with an audio element and other material such as videos and workbooks that walks users through each subject. Areas covered in this section include:
A highlight is the material on critical appraisal called Finding and Appraising the Evidence. These six modules provide a general introduction to critical appraisal before taking you through the process of how to find evidence, and then going on to look at different types of research, such as randomised control trials and finishing with how to make sense of the evidence, which looks at statistics and outcome measures.
Each section also ends with a quiz to test your learning and there are links to further resources.This is an excellent introduction to a complex topic and is highly recommended.
Due to a supplier problem, electronic journals hosted on EBSCO's EJS service are not currently available. EBSCO are currently looking at the issue and we hope that they will have it resolved shortly.
Other electronic content and full text journals on the CINAHL databases are still working as normal, as is all electronic journal content from other suppliers.
In the mean time if you need to get hold of a journal article and can't access it online, let us know and we will try and source it for you.
This is the alpha version of the Health & Care Online Tools Directory, which will be
launched by the NHS Commissioning Board in early 2013. This will provide a
trusted directory of online tools for the public and care professionals.
Covering more than just apps for smartphones or tablets, the directory also includes software that is accessed and run through a
standard web browser.
All featured tools will have appropriate medical safety and quality vetting, with
users (both care professionals and the public) being able to rate and comment on
the usefulness of individual online tools.
As it is an alpha site, a lot of content is still to come, but you can see some of the tools already listed by clinical condition. For example:
The NHS Commissioning Board are also very keen to have feedback on the site as well as suggestions for apps or other tools to include. You can contact them at: tools.feedback@nhs.net
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.
The NHS Change Model is a framework for change to help NHS commissioners
and providers improve how they go about improvement and deliver NHS
goals for quality and value through a common language for change. There is a video on the site that offers an introduction to the model.
The Twitter Club is a regular fortnightly conversation for anyone interested in the Change Model and will be used to help further develop it.
The Twitter Club operates on Wednesdays between 4 and 5 pm and uses the hashtag #NHSchange.
If you are unfamiliar with Twitter, the club page provides an overview on how to set up an account and get started, as well as how to join in the conversation. You can also take the Twitter Tour!
We have taken delivery of a new collection of books on approval. Our on approvals scheme
enables library users to review a selection of new titles covering a
broad range of clinical and non-clinical topics and recommend any that
they think it would be useful for us to stock.
The books are available to view at the Berrywood and Richmond libraries and will be available to view until Friday the 1st of February.
For further information please see the full list of the titles (arranged by topic).Of course, if you have other recommendations for items you think we should stock we are always happy to receive them.
The NNT is a web site offering summaries of evidence of treatments and diagnostics. The difference with this site is the summaries use NNT - Number Needed to Treat, to assess the likely benefits or harms of a particular intervention.
NNT is "a measurement of the impact of a medicine or therapy by estimating the
number of patients that need to be treated in order to have an impact
on one person" There is a handy tutorial video, which you can see below that offers a clear explanation of the concept produced by the site.
Summaries of evidence are listed by speciality and system, as well as being fully searchable. They are based on evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews and published randomised controlled trials. The summaries are very clearly set out showing exactly how beneficial an intervention is based on NNT.
The site also features a blog which reviews the latest research trials as well as offering comment on the use of evidence in practice. There is a section which clearly explains how the NNT site methodology is used in producing the evidence summaries and a quiz which allows you to rate the effectiveness of interventions and compare it with the NNT rating.
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