Information Skills for Health

Why not start off the new year by refreshing your literature searching skills, and book on one of our training courses. Dates are now available for January through to March. Find out more on our website .

What is it? NHS Choices is the official website for the NHS in England, providing support to the general public. How can it help you? You can find help about symptoms, treatments and conditions. There is an A-Z list that you can browse as well as an interactive body-map. You can investigate the options available in the Live Well section, where public health prevention campaigns are listed. You can search for local health services such as: A & E and Urgent Care Centres GP Surgeries Dentists Pharmacies Homecare and Care Home Services How to access it? The NHS Choices website is freely available on the Internet.

If you are planning to visit the Health Library over the holidays, here is a reminder of the reduced  Health Library opening hours over Christmas :

I’m still absorbing the Christmas spirit so for this week’s resource I’m looking at resources to help with the Christmas cooking. Bear in mind that many of these websites are set up to sell cookery books, magazines or food. First up – something for the vegetarian in your life  (everyone should have at least one) Vegetarian Society Christmas Recipes  – plenty of choice here Vegan Society Recipes for Special Occasions  – Christmas pudding ice-cream? Is that possible? BBC Good Food Vegetarian Recipes For the rest… BBC Good Food Christmas Recipes  – from pizza to pies TV Chefs Delia Smith Christmas Recipes  – the last minute and easy section might need a bit of preparation Jamie Oliver Christmas Recipes  – includes a meat roasting guide and what to do with leftovers Hairy Bikers Christmas Recipes Gordon Ramsey Christmas Recipes Help from the Supermarkets Tesco Christmas Recipes Waitrose Christmas Recipes Sainsburys Christ...

New Clinical Overviews (past 30 days) – CK Global Autoimmune hemolytic anemia Empyema Exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease HIV and hepatitis B coinfection Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis Opioid withdrawal Osteoarthritis Stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Stable ischemic heart disease Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis Books Added – CK Global Atlas of Retinal OCT: Optical Coherence Tomography  (Goldman, Darin) 1st ed; ISBN: 9780323461214; Package/Collection: Ophthalmology; New to CK;  https://www.clinicalkey.com/ dura/browse/bookChapter/3-s2. 0-C20150046275 Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn  (Gleason, Christine A.) 10th ed; ISBN: 9780323401395; Package/Collection: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine; New edition (replaces 9781437701340);  https://www.clinicalkey.com/ dura/browse/bookChapter/3-s2. 0-C20130003209 Brenner and Stevens’ Pharmacology  (Brenner, George) 5th ed; ISBN: 9780323391665; Packag...

The national NHS subscription to Trip Pro has been extended until the end of March 2018. A reminder that access to Trip Pro is via IP address: you should get seamless access to the ‘Pro’ version of Trip from the NHS network. The features that come with NHS England-wide institutional Trip Pro access, over and above the free version of Trip, are listed   here .  In the New Year,   HEE will be seeking some feedback from you about the value of the Pro content and features to you and your organisations, to help determine whether it should continue to be funded centrally.

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As the Yuletide season approaches I thought that I’d engage in a little Christmas spirit and offer a few resources to help you out with the coming festivities. First up is a series of creative craft items – who doesn’t love a bit of glitter? (Though now apparently you need to get bio-degradable glitter ) – as well as some fun-filled treats. I used Pinterest to search for these craft ideas – no systematic search here, I just chose what I thought looked fun and reasonably easy. Most of the links go to blog items from hobbyists and some related companies. Be aware that the pages will include a lot of adverts. Creative Crafts Paper Christmas Tree Craft – fun with cardboard, paper and glue Handprint Christmas Tree cards – decorate your handprint Christmas tree Paper Plate Christmas Characters: Santa, Rudolph, Snowman – decorating paper plates Glittering Popsicle Stick Christmas Trees Ornaments – you could use card if you don’t have an endless supply of popsicle stic...

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What is it? Medical Masterclass is an online learning resource developed by the Royal College of Physicians London. You can practice questions for the MRCP (UK) (part 1 and 2) written examinations. Key Features There are 12 Medical Masterclass printed textbooks available at both LERC (Stafford) and the Health Library (Royal Stoke). These include core skills as well as medical specialities. They support your development and study for the MRCP (UK) exam. You can then use the online Medical Masterclass resource to take mock MRCP (UK) Part 1 and Part 2 exams. How can it help you? You can practice for the exam – there are over 2,200 questions. You can compare your results against other users. How to access it? The online material is only available to NHS staff at UHNM. To access the online material, please contact staff at LERC (Stafford) for a username / password. The book collection is available from each library .

The Proquest database provides NHS athens users with access to ejournals and articles on the Medline and PsychInfo databases. The problem we experienced logging on to the Proquest databases from the UHNM network have now been fixed. If anyone continues to encounter any problems please get in touch .

The Clinical Effectiveness Bulletin , produced by the NHS Outreach Team , is now available via the Health Library website. Issues are added to the website as they become available, so you can always find them online. The bulletin aims to draw attention to key documents, guidance and evidence-based reviews on clinical effectiveness. It is published on a monthly basis. For more information contact the Outreach Team.