The refurbished accommodation at Bishton Court has been carefully designed to offer a full range of facilities for patients and staff. The two floors of accommodation include an open and inviting reception area, five clinic rooms, a counselling room, primary analysis laboratory, an office and toilets.
Did you know that The English, Scottish & Welsh NHS license for the Cochrane Library now includes FREE access to Cochrane Clinical Answers?
Cochrane Clinical Answers provides brief evidence based summaries on popular clinical questions and links to the evidence from Cochrane Reviews on those questions.
‘Google’ is now officially a verb in the Oxford English Dictionary—considered the most authoritative dictionary of the English language. With all of this technology and freely available digital information, Google is changing the way doctors practise medicine and how doctors consult patients. For all the benefits technology provides, it does provoke anxiety. In a recent letter, a rheumatologist describes a scene at rounds where a professor asked the presenting fellow to explain how he arrived at his diagnosis. ‘I entered the salient features into Google, and [the diagnosis] popped right up’.1
The phrase ‘Please do not confuse your Google search for my medical degree’ printed on a mug has been making the rounds on multiple social media forums and internet sites in recent times. This reflects the emerging use of the World Wide Web by patients to obtain information (and misinformation) and how the internet impacts the practising of modern medicine. Most clinicians will be familiar with the increasingly …...To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
This is a first reflection on completing Launch, part one of the The Edward Jenner Programme. This programme features in the Knowledge for Healthcare blog, Build your leadership skills with the NHS Leadership Academy. It’s a three part eLearning offering from the NHS Leadership Academy aimed at new or aspiring managers. The first two parts – Launch and Foundations – use eLearning only and are free.
Open access. Smartphones are used by patients and clinicians alike. Vast numbers of software applications (apps) run on smartphones and carry out useful functions. Clinician- and patient-oriented mental health apps have been developed. In this article, we provide an overview of apps that are relevant for mental health. We look at clinician-oriented apps that support assessment, diagnosis and treatment as well as patient-oriented apps that support education and self-management. We conclude by looking at the challenges that apps pose with a discussion of possible solutions.
Open access.....few authors have considered the specific issue of searching online for information about patients and much of the guidance published by regulatory organisations eludes this issue. In this article we provide clinical examples where the question ‘should I Google the patient?’ may arise and present questions for future research.
Open access. Individuals with mental health issues may post information on social networking sites that can provide an insight into their mental health status. It could be argued that doctors (and specifically psychiatrists) should understand the way in which social media is used by their patients to gain a better insight into their illnesses.
Original research findings are often distorted in the messages that reach the public. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Picture the scene – you’ve gone to Trip and searched for an article to answer your question. You find a paper that looks interesting and click on the link – and it leads to a dead link. I appreciate the frustration – I really do.
The brand new WHO European Health Information Gateway is now available to the public, providing curated, reliable health data and information presented in formats that are easy to understand and compare and that are easy to extract.