FREE access to The Lancet via NHS Evidence from January 2012

Source: NICE

Year of publication: 2011

Publication type: News item

In a nutshell: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has signed a 3 year agreement to provide staff and healthcare students with access to The Lancet via the NHS Evidence website (www.evidence.nhs.uk).
From 3 January 2012, every member of staff and healthcare students from an NHS England commissioned education programmes, can access the latest online editions of The Lancet, as well as back copies from the last 4 years. This means NHS library services and healthcare staff and students won’t have to subscribe individually. This agreement will improve NHS-wide access to this valued resource.
For more information about NHS Athens visit the Integrated Library Service website at: www.whnt.nhs.uk/library, click on Resources and then on NHS Athens.
To access the Integrated Library Service help-sheet entitled: Creating and Using an NHS Athens Account go to: www.whnt.nhs.uk/library, click on Resources and Library Helpsheets.

Further dissemination: If you think any of your colleagues would benefit from receiving these alerts, please direct them to the Evidence Alerts webpage.

Keep up to date with our Evidence Alerts service!

Information for the Library, Research and Evidence Based Practice blog

Keep up to date with our Evidence Alerts service!

Source: Integrated Library Service

In a nutshell: The WUTH Integrated Library Service has added a number of new bulletins to the list available through the Evidence Alerts service (formerly LEAF). We’ve added more current awareness and horizon scanning bulletins with the aim of keeping you up to date in your area of interest.

What are Evidence Alerts?
Evidence Alerts aim to enhance your decision-making by keeping you up to date with the latest developments as well as anticipated events in your particular healthcare interest area. Evidence Alerts are delivered to you by e-mail and will alert you to new innovations, improvements, best practice, news and evidence in your area of interest.

What bulletins are available?
The bulletins we currently offer include horizon scanning bulletins for Breast Feeding, Cancer, Horizon Scanning bulletin, Cardiovascular Horizon Scanning bulletin, Community Diagnostics, COPD, Dental, Diabetes Type 2, Emotional Health and Wellbeing, End of Life care, Immunisation, Infection Control, Obesity, Patient Experience, Sexual Health, Stroke, Sustainability, Urgent Care.

Our selection of current awareness bulletins include AHP bulletin, Chief Nursing Officer bulletin, Chief Scientific Officer bulletin, ChiMat Knowledge update, Commissioning Zone newsletter, GP & Practice Team bulletin, Health Management update, Library, Research and Evidence Based Practice alerts, National Library for Public Health newsletter, NHS Institute alert, NHS Networks bulletin, NICE News, North West Public Health Observatory bulletin and Social Care bulletin

Please visit our Evidence Alerts page to view a full list of the bulletins available.

How can I subscribe to these bulletins?
Visit our Evidence Alerts page to tick the bulletins your wish to receive and tell us where you want to receive them (home or work e-mail address).

Further dissemination:
If you think any of your colleagues would benefit from receiving these alerts, please ask them to contact us to subscribe.

Statistics support for researchers

The Integrated Library Service has partnered up with staff from Upton Hall School to provide a series of Statistics Mentoring Clinics as part of a community engagement arrangement.

The Statistics Mentoring Clinics are aimed at WUTH staff who would benefit from extra support when faced with using statistics in practice or research.

Those attending the clinic must come prepared with a statistical problem (or scenario). Where possible an outline of the problem should be submitted in advance of attendance at the clinic.

2011 DATES
7th February
7th March
4th April
23rd May
13th June
4th July

TIME
On each date two clinic appointments are available:
4.00pm-5.00pm
5.00pm-6.00pm
Appointments are issued on a first come, first served basis.

HOW TO BOOK
Link here to complete the online booking form for ‘Handling Data 1: Statistics Mentoring Clinics’.

FURTHER INFORMATION
Please visit the Integrated Library Service Training Pages for more information.