Information Skills for Health

  Are you dependent on your HDAS alerts? Have you saved your favourite HDAS searches? You’ll need to move them! HDAS – healthcare databases advanced search - is being withdrawn 31 st March 2022. You will not be able to use HDAS after this date. If you have any saved alerts or searches that you want to keep you will need to move them to the database platforms. What are the database platforms? The main NHS databases – such as CINAHL, Medline, Embase, PsyInfo etc – are hosted on the Ebsco , Proquest or Ovid platforms. Which database and platform do I need? Check out our etutorial Which NHS database do you need? How can you access the platforms? Links to the platforms are available on our NHS Resources page . You will need your NHS OpenAthens username / password to log in to the platforms. View our other blog posts to learn how to: Log in to Ebsco Log in to OVID Log in to Proquest Transfer your saved alerts and searches Our NHS colleague Tom Roper has created

 Complete your in-depth literature search using Ebsco databases. To search the Ebsco databases you'll need to log in using your NHS OpenAthens username. Which databases can you search? Ebsco is host to a range of specialist, research, healthcare databases, purchased for NHS users. You can search Cinahl , Medline and Medline with full-text . Not sure which database you need? Complete our etutorial Which NHS database do you need? for more help. How to log in to the Ebsco platform 1. Find the Ebsco link Get quick access to Ebsco by linking straight from our NHS Resources page . If you work for North Staffs Combined Healthcare or GP practices in Staffordshire or CCGs in Staffordshire please click the relevant button to go to your page of resources. Page down to the Literature Searching via Databases section and click the Ebsco link. This will take you straight to the openathens route to login. 2. Log in via NHS OpenAthens Enter your NHS OpenAthens username and password and click Si

  Complete your in-depth literature search using OVID databases. To search the OVID databases you'll need to log in using your NHS OpenAthens. Which databases can you search? OVID is host to a range of specialist, research, healthcare databases, purchased for NHS users. You can search the  AMED , Embase , Emcare , HMIC , Medline  and Social Policy and Practice  databases. Not sure which database you need? Complete our etutorial  Which NHS database do you need?  for more help. How to log in to the OVID platform 1. Find the OVID Link Get quick access to the OVID platform by linking from our NHS Resources page .    If you work for North Staffs Combined Healthcare or GP practices in Staffordshire or CCGs in Staffordshire please click the relevant button to go to your page of resources. 2. Select your institution Search for your OpenAthens institution . Tip: Staff at UHNM can enter North Midlands to get the organisation name quickly Tip: Staff working for Combined Healthcare, the GP

 Complete your in-depth literature search using Proquest databases. To search the Proquest databases you'll need to log in using your NHS OpenAthens. Which databases can you search? Proquest is host to a range of specialist, research, healthcare databases, purchased for NHS users. You can search the British Nursing Index (BNI) , Medline , PsycArticles and PsychInfo databases. Not sure which database you need? Complete our etutorial Which NHS database do you need? for more help. How to log in to the Proquest platform 1. Find the Proquest Link Get quick access to Proquest by linking straight from our NHS Resources page . If you work for North Staffs Combined Healthcare or GP practices in Staffordshire or CCGs in Staffordshire please click the relevant button to go to your page of resources. Page down to the Literature Searching via Databases section and click the Proquest link. This will take you straight to the openathens route to login. 2. Manage cookies Check your cookies optio

 What are the NHS resources you need to give you the best evidence? You need something: healthcare specific   **   good quality   **   trusted resource   **   appropriate level Go straight to our NHS Resources page to find the resource you need. Go to the NHS Resources page Find the NHS resources page on the Health Library website . Use the menu options along the top - the NHS Resources page is in the Find section - or page down to the Quick Links section to go straight to the NHS Resources page. Who do you work for? You need to select which organisation you work for to ensure that you get the right links to some major resources. The main page includes links for UHNM staff . Staff working for North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare or GP practices in Staffordshire or Clinical Commissioning Groups in Staffordshire need to select the button to go to the version of the page with their resources - it is laid out the same way. Search the Knowledge and Library Hub Page d

HDAS is the Healthcare Databases Advanced Search interface that allows NHS OpenAthens users to perform literature searches across a range of healthcare specialist databases. HDAS is closing 31st March 2022 and from that point onwards you will not be able to use the product. What can you do? You can let us do the work for you! If work in the NHS and you need to find the latest evidence in your specialty or topic, get in touch with our Literature Search Service team and we'll do the work for you. Our team are experienced, qualified librarians, with expertise in searching all our major resources. We'll develop a search plan from your criteria, execute it against the relevant databases and send you a list of articles and resources that match your needs. To learn more about our Literature Search Service and to make your request check our website .

  HDAS is the Healthcare Databases Advanced Search interface that allows NHS OpenAthens users to perform literature searches across a range of healthcare specialist databases. HDAS is closing 31st March 2022 and from that point onwards you will not be able to use the product. What can you do? Upskill to using the host platforms to search the healthcare databases You will still have access to the major healthcare databases such as Cinahl, Embase, Medline, PsycInfo etc. After March 31st you will need to search these databases by using their host platforms. Check our NHS Databases help page for tutorials and videos on using the host platforms. Search the new NHS Knowledge and Library Hub NHS HEE have released a new search product called the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub. This is a one-stop-shop, allowing you to search across a wide range of resources including databases, clinical support tools and ebooks. Access the Hub from our NHS Resources web page . Book a training session Need more

 NICE are withdrawing HDAS - the interface that allows you to search the healthcare databases from a single interface. After the 31st March 2022 you will no longer be able to use this product to complete literature searches against databases such as Cinahl, Embase, Medline, PsycInfo etc. Please check this blog regularly for more details.

  The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines  in Psychiatry   is the essential evidence-based handbook on the safe and effective prescribing of psychotropic agents. This title has been purchased by HEE for all NHS staff. You will need to log in with your NHS OpenAthens username. Check our NHS Resources page for links to NHS resources. Go to our NHS OpenAthens page for more information about NHS OpenAthens and to register for your username.

  Social Policy and Practice is a bibliographic database providing access to social care  related content. It is now available to all staff within NHS England.  You can search the database via the Ovid platform. It will also be incorporated into the NHS Knowledge & Discovery Hub.    Social   Policy  and Practice brings together data from the following 5 leading collections of  social   policy  and practice resources: AgeInfo - Centre for  Policy  on Ageing NSPCC - National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Planex - IDOX Information Service Social Care Online -  Social  Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) ChildData – National Children’s Bureau (NCB)  Go to our NHS Resources page for all links to NHS resources.  Log in with your NHS OpenAthens username to search the database.

 From NICE: NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) topics  are aimed at healthcare professionals working in primary and first contact care in the UK. The 370 topics cover 1000 clinical presentations or patient scenarios and are free to access. The following CKS topics have been created or updated over the past months: October: Angio-oedema and anaphylaxis  – the topic has been updated to align with the Resuscitation Council UK guideline  Emergency treatment of anaphylaxis. Guidelines for healthcare providers . Recommendations to routinely administer IV or IM chlorphenamine and hydrocortisone have been removed from this topic. Bunions  – the section on Assessment has been moved to the diagnosis section to improve clarity and navigation and an additional section on surgical management has been added to the management section. Heart failure – chronic  – advice to add iron studies as part of the assessment of a person with heart failure and to manage comorbidity of hypertension was added

 Too busy to search for updates every day? Want to get the latest high-level evidence straight to your inbox? Sign-up to our current awareness service provided via KnowledgeShare. You’ll get your own bespoke bulletin, straight to your inbox, as often as you want. You can self-register with KnowledgeShare using your NHS OpenAthens username. KnowledgeShare is a system developed within the NHS for use by NHS staff. We use this service to provide you with regular evidence updates. Need to get your OpenAthens username? Learn how on our website . Complete the KnowledgeShare self-registration form to get your updates Go to our website and click the link for the self-registration online form. You’ll be taken to the KnowledgeShare website. Click the option Sign in here with OpenAthens . Select the option OpenAthens login on the next page. Enter your NHS OpenAthens username / password and click Sign in . Create your KnowledgeShare membership and link it to OpenAthens Knowle