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Support for management in the NHS via your NHS OpenAthens username

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I thought I would just send out a reminder to encourage you to use the resources we have at the Health Library to support leaders and management staff in the NHS. Our resources give you access to a wealth of information, research and support to help you to make evidence-based decisions.

Journals

Journals provide you with the latest research, examples of best practice, support for professional development and expert commentary. Use your NHS OpenAthens username to access full-text from our subscribed journal collection, including:

British Journal of Healthcare Management – a leading journal published monthly, focusing on management and leadership in the healthcare sector. You’ll find peer-reviewed research articles, literature reviews, service evaluations, quality improvement, practice reviews, reports and commentaries. Topics include health technology, infrastructure, staff satisfaction and wellbeing, patient safety, integrated care and healthcare education and training.
Recent articles include:

· Reviewing the transition from child to adult care: considerations for managers
· Supporting nutritional intake in patients with dementia: strategies for healthcare services
· Reducing waiting lists, generating funds, improving lives: establishing a surgical hub

Nursing Management – published by the RCN, this title gives advice for senior managers, nurses in leadership roles and aspiring nurse leaders across all nursing disciplines. You’ll find original research, descriptions and case studies of service or professional development, literature reviews and opinion articles.
Recent articles include:

· How do nurse leaders promote equality, diversity and inclusion?
· Improving nurses’ digital literacy and engagement with digital workflows through a data-driven education model
· Factors influencing early career nurses to adopt leadership roles: a literature review

Health Policy (Clinical Key) - accessible via Clinical Key. Health Policy is an interdisciplinary journal discussing health policy, health systems research, health services research, health economics, health care management, political and policy sciences, public health, and related disciplines.
Recent articles include

· The effect of community diagnostic centres on volume and waiting time for diagnostic procedures in the UK
· Surgical reorganization during the COVID-19 pandemic and impact on case-mix and surgical site infections: A multicenter cohort study in Italy
· The role of the health sector in tackling climate change: A narrative review

The Lancet Digital Health (Clinical Key) - accessible via Clinical Key. This journal publishes high-quality original research, commentary and correspondence contributing to promoting digital technologies in health practice worldwide.
Recent articles include:

· Artificial intelligence in medicine and the pursuit of environmentally responsible science
· The effect of using a large language model to respond to patient messages
· Randomised controlled trials evaluating artificial intelligence in clinical practice: a scoping review

KnowledgeShare for Evidence Updates

Remember that you can request KnowledgeShare Updates – you can register your interested topics; then emails including links to a range of different types of information on those topics will be sent to your inbox. Topics include education, management and leadership, information management, patient experience, quality improvement, safety, service design and much more. Complete our form to make your request.

Keeping up-to-date with journals

You can sign-up to receive regular table of content updates for individual journal titles. You will receive an email notification when a new issue is published along with links to the articles in that issue. If you are already registered for KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates you can add journal table of contents updates to your profile (if available). Just let me know which journals you are interested in. You’ll find a list of healthcare-based journals on our Browzine list (note that we do not subscribe to the full list).

Stay in touch

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or need help accessing NHS resources.
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