Large new collection of eBooks now available

The Library Service now has access to a new collection of eBooks via the Kortext platform which you can access here https://read.kortext.com/.

Funded by Health Education England, the collection consists of 141 titles covering a broad spectrum of health care including:

• Anatomy and physiology
• "At a Glance" series titles 
• Leadership and management
  
• Medicine
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Nursing and midwifery
• Prescribing and pharmacology
• Research
• Surgery

As with all of our eBooks, you can also find them on our catalogue here. 

You can access Kortext with your OpenAthens password (and if you don't have one you can register online here).

Health and Care Video Library

Funded by the NHS, the Health and Care Video Library consists of over 600 free health related videos.

Developed in partnership with an NHS trust, the videos have all been approved by a clinician and they cover topics such as dementia, diabetes, heart disease, learning disabilities, mental health, pregnancy, and vaccines. 

There are also a number of ‘how to’ and ‘what to expect’ videos alongside.

https://healthandcarevideos.uk/

The videos are aimed at patients who need support, care or more information at home, but can be useful for NHS staff and students too. 

The video library is also linked from the NHS.UK home page and all the content is also available via an app.

NHFT virtual book club - our next read

Following on from our reading of Elif Shafak's The Bastard of Istanbul, our next novel for the NHFTvirtual book club will be the Booker nominated The New Wilderness by Diane Cook. 

"A daring, passionate and terrifying novel about a mother’s battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change."

Our book club a very informal, with lively conversation, lots of laughs and doesn't always stay on topic. 

The next meeting will be Thursday the 18th of March at 7pm via MS Teams where we will be discussing the novel. You can find the link via the Events Calendar on the Staff Room.

Hope to see you there.

NHFT virtual book club - our next read

Following on from our reading of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club, our next novel for the NHFT virtual book club will be The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak. 

Elif Shafak is a British-Turkish author who has previously been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and numerous other awards, as well as having been chosen for Blackwell's Book of the Year.

Our book club a very informal, with lively conversation, lots of laughs and doesn't always stay on topic (we had a discussion about cake at the last meeting!). 

The next meeting will be Thursday the 11th of February at 7pm via MS Teams where we will be discussing the novel. You can find the link via the Events Calendar on the Staff Room.

Hope to see you there.

Christmas cover at the libraries.

Sadly, will are still unable to open the physical library spaces. 

However, library staff will be available at the Berrywood and Richmond libraries throughout the Christmas period (except for the bank holidays) to deal with any enquires, provide literature searches, supply articles, loan books and to help with all things library related.

Isebrook Library will be unstaffed from Friday the 24th of December until Friday the 1st of January. Please contact one of the other sites during this time if you need any help.

We would like to wish you a very happy Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous New Year. We look forward to seeing you in 2021.

BMJ Case Reports now available to staff at Northampton General Hospital

Northampton General Hospital has taken out an annual institutional subscription to BMJ Case Reports that allows staff to submit case reports to the journal for publication at no cost to themselves.

BMJ Case Reports is an educational resource bringing together more than 15000 peer reviewed case reports covering all disciplines, allowing health professionals to learn from real cases. 

To view the journal you will need an NGH OpenAthens account (register here or contact the library for help) or see the 10th anniversary booklet for examples of the types of cases that they publish.

If you would like to submit a case report please contact the Richmond Library for the NGH Fellowship code and we will send you information from the BMJ on writing a case report and the submission process.

Library sites reopening postponed (but we are still doing everything else)

The libraries at Berrywood Hospital, Isebrook Hospital and Northampton General Hospital were due to open again to visitors on Monday 9th November. 

However due to the national lockdown and the increase in the NHS alert level, the Trust Incident Control Centre has decided that re-opening at the present moment could potentially increase the risk of covid transmission and has instructed us to postpone.

We do have everything in place to open again and are ready to go as soon as we are given the all clear. 

We know that many of you have been wanting to use the study space the libraries provide and we thank you for your patience while we have done risk assessments and put in place the measures needed to keep you and the library staff safe.

We’re sorry for the extra delay as we were looking forward to welcoming you back.

In the meantime we continue to provide all our other services virtually: book loans; the supply of  journal articles; training; literature searching etc.

If you have any questions at all about our services or the re-opening please contact one of the libraries.

A reading list in support of Black History Month

In support of Black History Month, we have put together a reading list of titles the library has in stock. The list covers race and racism, fiction from black authors, nonfiction titles from our leisure reading collection as well as health care related books.

On the list you'll find titles like "Overcoming everyday racism" and David Olusoga's "Black and British: a forgotten history" as well as fiction from black authors like Marlon James and Akwaeke Emezi (writer of the excellent "Freshwater"), along side biographies, like those of  Walter Tull and Michelle Obama. We also have classics like "The Colour Purple", "Beloved" and "If Beale Street Could Talk", books on cookery, as well as more clinically focused titles. We hope there is something for everyone on the list.

You can find the reading list on our catalogue here.

Mind the gap: a handbook of clinical signs in black and brown skin

Mind the gap is a free, downloadable UK ebook. It offers images of conditions on black and brown skin (that are frequently omitted from medical text books) and is a useful support for diagnosing conditions in people from a BME background.

The book was produced by Black and Brown Skin as a tool to support medical education when treating patients with darker skin "to aid earlier and more accurate diagnosis, increased patient satisfaction and greater confidence for healthcare professionals when treating people of colour" (from the web site).

iHealth Facts - health claims fact checked

iHealth Facts is a web site aimed at the public where you can quickly check on how reliable health related claims are and what the evidence is to support them.

The site also aims to help the public to use evidence to make their own health related decisions.

You can use the site to search for any health related question, as well as seeing the reply to previous enquiries.

Questions are answered with a simple summary, as well as having links to the research and an overview of the evidence used.

The site is run by Health Research Board-Trials Methodology Research Network (HRB-TMRN), Evidence Synthesis Ireland and Cochrane Ireland.

What's new on Clinical Key - new clinical overviews, journal and books added

Clinical Overviews

Clinical Overviews are a quick and easy way to find evidence-based answers to your clinical questions.

Whenever you do a search in Clinical Key if there is a topic overview it will appear as the first result and also in a box on the right of the page.

Clinical Overviews are not book or journal content; they are concise, easily scannable summaries which include evidence-based information, current guidelines, and the latest advances on medical conditions. Clinical Overviews are tailored for clinicians.

The following topics have been added in July:

• Sarcoidosis
• Plague

These Clinical Overviews have been updated with latest evidence:

• Appendicitis
• Down syndrome
• Obesity in children
• Pancreatic cancer
• Urinary tract infection in children

Journal

• The European Journal of Psychiatry

Books

Elsevier have also added new electronic books to Clinical Key this month, including:

• Clinical Chemistry (Marshall, William J.) 9th ed
•  Cummings Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery (Flint, Paul W.) 7th ed
• Drug-Induced Ocular Side Effects (Fraunfelder, Frederick “Fritz” T.) 8th ed
• Endodontics: Principles and Practice (Torabinejad, Mahmoud) 6th ed
• Ferri’s Clinical Advisor 2021 (Ferri, Fred F.) 1st ed
• Handbook of Local Anesthesia (Malamed, Stanley F.) 7th ed; New to CK 
• Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine (Feather, Adam) 10th ed
• Moore’s Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (Moore, Wesley S.) 9th ed
• Muscle Biopsy (Dubowitz, Victor) 5th ed
• Nunn and Lumb’s Applied Respiratory Physiology (Lumb, Andrew) 9th ed
• Pain Care Essentials and Innovations (Pangarkar, Sanjong) 1st ed; New to CK
• Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease (Kumar, Vinay) 10th ed
• Spine Secrets (Devlin, Vincent J.) 3rd ed
• Valvular Heart Disease: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease (Otto, Catherine M.) 5th ed
• Weir & Abrahams’ Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy (Spratt, Jonathan D.) 6th ed

Clinical Key is a fantastic, easy to use resource that contains huge amounts of full text content including:

• 1,400 topic pages
• Over 600 electronic journals 
• Over 1000 electronic books
• 850 First Consult monographs
• 17,000 + medical / surgical videos
• 300 + Procedures Consult videos
• 15,000 patient education handouts
• 2.2 million images
• You can find a full content list here

There is also a free app allowing you to access Clinical Key on the go.

To access Clinical Key all you need is your OpenAthens password (register online here if you don't have one) to get started.

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.