Printing to PDF is a useful tip that can help you to save information, web pages and your work.
It can really help if you can’t print or want to print later.
A literature search was carried out to find information on the topic of repeat child protection proceedings. A scoping search was performed to gather search terms. These were used to systematically search across five databases. The citations of the documents were also hand searched in order to locate further documents. The results were collated into a report which contained full text access to the relevant documents, wherever possible.
Reports detailing the audit results for each platform have been added to the Individual Platform Feedback Reports section of the website. The table on page 6 of the reports may be particularly useful for Library staff - it gives an at-a-glance view of how well the platform met each of the criteria. We will now be encouraging platforms to look at their own report and hopefully use it to inform developments.
Public Health England (PHE) is piloting an online space on Knowledge Hub to share information about local knowledge and intelligence products and services. Our Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service (LKIS) will run the space.
Knowledge Hub gives PHE in each geographical PHE Centre location, a way to make it easier for local partners to keep up to date with the relevant health intelligence relating to their area, and to take part in discussions.
Conclusions: Results of this review contribute to the understanding of the patient-physician relationship of Internet-informed patients. Our main findings show that Internet health information seeking can improve the patient-physician relationship depending on whether the patient discusses the information with the physician and on their prior relationship. As patients have better access to health information through the Internet and expect to be more engaged in health decision making, traditional models of the patient-provider relationship and communication strategies must be revisited to adapt to this changing demographic.
Sarah Knowles explores a qualitative study of young adults' perspectives on producing and consuming user-generated content about diabetes and mental health.
Evidence updates folders for Healthcare Professionals (Nurses, HCAs and AHPs etc) have been updated across the hospital with the latest evidence for you to read.
A new campaign will remind health service leaders in England of their responsibility to ensure evidence-based practice under the Health and Social Care Act1. It highlights the beneficial outcomes when healthcare services are planned and delivered with input from dedicated health librarians and knowledge services.
Launching on 30 January, ‘A Million Decisions’ is jointly led by CILIP, the library and information association, and Health Education England (HEE), who work together to support decision-makers and those delivering health services to make good use of library and knowledge skills to meet their obligations under the Act.
The medical community disseminates information increasingly using social media. Randomised controlled trials are being conducted in this area to evaluate effectiveness of social media with mixed results so far, but more trials are likely to be published in the coming years. One recent twitter randomised control trial using Cochrane Schizophrenia Group reviews suggests that tweets increase the hits to the target web page by about threefold and time spent on the web page is also increased threefold when referrals come in via twitter. These are early findings and need further replication. Twitter appeals to professionals, entertainers and politicians among others as a means of networking with peers and connecting with the wider public. Twitter, in particular, seems to be well placed for use by the medical community and is effective in promoting messages, updating information, interacting with each other locally and internationally and more so during conferences........To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
DUDLEY and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Libraries have recently completed a year-long pilot in which iPads were lent out to staff to use as a therapeutic resource with patients on hospital wards and in the community. As part of the pilot, Library Services worked in collaboration with the Trust’s Occupational Therapy Department, who recommended apps and trialled the project in practice, providing feedback and recommendations.
Hadley Learning Community took over the running of Hadley Library at the beginning of January in a tangible example of strong partnership working.
The library is being run with the support of both the school and Hadley and Leegomery Parish Council and opens from 2.30-5.30pm from Monday to Friday and 9.30am-1pm on Saturdays.
A new, updated Shropshire Choices support finder has been published in association with Shropshire Council. It is a comprehensive guide on choosing and paying for adult care and support services in Shropshire.
Many year ago Muir Gray stated – in relation to the access to evidence – that ‘Three clicks are two clicks too many’. This statement inspired the invention of the Trip Answer Engine and we have delivered on Muir’s vision. Answers to clinical questions, quickly, with a single click!
This week's app of the week is OvidToday. Download the app to your device to get access to many of Francis Costello Library's journal subscriptions from the last six months with articles in full text. Read more to find out how:
Kick start your CPD for 2017 with the reading challenge at the Library Education and Resource Centre, anyone can get involved. Look at information to improve your work skills and relax with our leisure collection. Pick up a reading challenge form at the Library, County Hospital or print one from the news section on the UHNM intranet homepage. Fill in the blank column with what you have read and send back to us by 13th February to receive a certificate of participation.
A pioneering health and information service launched across South Staffordshire is making great strides in supporting older people to stay healthy, safe and independent in their own home.
The Care Navigation Service is delivered by Age UK South Staffordshire and South Staffordshire Community and Voluntary Action (CVA).
It is a free service helping community health teams to increase the levels of access to information and support that people who are undergoing challenges in their lives can get in the local community.
Research involving the public as partners often proves difficult to locate due to the variations in terms used to describe public involvement, and inability of medical databases to index this concept effectively.
The principles of evidence-based medicine have been critiqued by the ‘caring’ professions, such as nursing and social work, and evidence-informed medicine has been proposed as a more client-centred, integrative approach to practice. The purpose of this study was to explore how Canadian health science librarians who serve nurses and allied health professionals define good service and how they negotiate evidence-based principles in their searching strategies.
Looks at different types of customer service centre staff - identifies the type managers prefer (empathisers) are not as good at solving customers' problems as 'controllers'. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
The MRC requires that the results of the research it funds are published, ideally in peer-reviewed journals; also that all such articles, whether published in an open access or subscription-based journal, must be archived in Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) and made freely available as soon as possible, and in any event within six months of the first on‐line publication.
The health education team in western Sussex has developed a You Tube video
https://youtu.be/2iZz38HOhAg that further highlights the value of a clinical librarian.
While the result (that RRs and SRs give similar results) is no surprise the fact that they found 9 articles is more than I was aware of!
Again, if they give similar results and one costs considerably more than the other I wonder what the ethical position is of spending the additional resource?
A new Be Food Smart app has been developed to highlight just how much sugar, saturated fat and salt can be found in everyday food and drink that their children consume.
The free app helps and encourages families to choose healthier options and works by scanning the barcode of products allowing parents to compare brands, and features food detective activities for children and mini missions the whole family can enjoy.
The study included 30 drug names that are commonly misspelt on prescription charts in hospitals in Birmingham, UK (test set), and 30 control names randomly chosen from a hospital formulary (control set). The following definitions were used: standard names—the international non-proprietary names, variant names—deviations in spelling from standard names that are not themselves standard names in English language nomenclature, and hidden reference variants—variant spellings that identified publications in textword (tw) searches of PubMed or other databases, and which were not identified by textword searches for the standard names. Variant names were generated from standard names by applying letter substitutions, omissions, additions, transpositions, duplications, deduplications, and combinations of these. Searches were carried out in PubMed (30 June 2016) for “standard name[tw]” and “variant name[tw] NOT standard name[tw].”
Conclusion When performing searches, researchers should include misspellings of drug names among their search terms. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
The findings from each of the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Library Network’s eleven library sites resulted in six user typology categories: e-Ninjas, Social Scholars, Peace Seekers, Classic Clickers, Page Turners and Knowledge Tappers.
The first community-run library in Telford and Wrekin has formally opened for business – and it will get off to a festive start by hosting a Christmas market on Thursday.
Stirchley Community Library will be run by Stirchley and Brookside Parish Council at the Sambrook Centre in a tangible example of strong partnership working.
Are you looking for information on the cost effectiveness of different treatments, or cost-benefit analyses? Published economic evaluations are a good place to start, but they’re not always easy to find in the literature, so below are some suggestions for places to look and ways to search for them.
This Library briefing paper discusses the current reform of EU data protection law, the interaction with UK law, and the potential consequences of Brexit in this area.
Login at top right hand side of page using your SSSFT NHS Athens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Lisa Marzano on a recent survey of Internet use in people with psychosis and depression, which explores the extent of the digital divide in mental health.
The Click Guide to Dementia has been developed to help people find out about these organisations, products, services and bloggers. The Click Guide to Dementia brings together more than a hundred of the most useful resources, with an overview and explanations as well as hyperlinks to websites, blogs, facebook pages and twitter feeds.
Topics covered in the Guide range from information, advocacy and carer support through to specialist dementia shops and services.
IHealth Education England (HEE) has worked with Public Concern at Work and the National Guardian Office to develop a package of online learning resources that aim to encourage and support NHS staff to raise and respond to concerns.
Available on HEE’s e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) website, two e-learning sessions promote relevant policies, procedures, best practice and available support in relation to raising and responding to concerns.
Anders Huitfeldt argues that the answer depends on your definition of “risk factor” and calls for greater clarity in research
The risk factor approach to epidemiology was introduced by the Framingham Heart Study investigators, who first alluded to the idea in 1951. The first use of the term “factor of risk” appeared in 1961, but it was not precisely defined. The resulting semantic confusion has hindered precise communication about study design and data analysis. To illustrate the problem, let us suppose that you want to study the causes and distribution of personal wealth. NB looks at definitions of terms in research. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Open access. Book review. Attachment Theory in Adult Mental Health: A Guide to Clinical Practice Edited by Adam N. Danquah and Katherine Berry Routledge 2014, £29.99, pb, 250 pp. ISBN: 9780415687416
In the opening chapter of this tour through attachment theory, Jeremy Holmes suggests a good question to ask patients: ‘Who would you contact first if there was an emergency or crisis in your life?’ This is a great way to get to the bottom of who your attachment figure is. Interestingly, during my read of this book I found myself thinking – ‘which chapter will I turn to for support with my clinical problems?’
Open access. Book review. Enabling Recovery: The Principles and Practice of Rehabilitation Psychiatry (2nd edn) Edited by Frank Holloway, Sridevi Kalidindi, Helen Killaspy and Glenn Roberts RCPsych Publications, 2015, £35, pb, 496 pp. ISBN: 9781909726338
The first edition of Enabling Recovery was a much-welcomed arrival for the discipline of rehabilitation psychiatry as it emerged from its marginal ‘resettlement’ function in the late 1990s. The discipline is now accepted as part of mainstream psychiatric practice.
This second edition takes into account new data and developments, and adds an international perspective.
We’ve been expanding our Knowledge Navigator tool to cover additional forms of information, including:
Dissertations and Theses
Grey literature
Pre-processed and pre-appraised evidence
Economic evaluations
Together for Mental Wellbeing is delivering and developing mental health Inclusion and Recovery support across Lichfield, Tamworth, and East Staffordshire from 1 November 2016. The new service will work with people in a flexible way, tailoring support to their wants and needs and working alongside them to achieve goals that are important to them.
Two stakeholder engagement events are being held in January 2017 as a chance for stakeholders and partners to come together and find out more about Together UK and the mental wellbeing service they will be offering across East Staffordshire, Lichfield and Tamworth.
Una Foye on a recent narrative review that aimed to identify & summarise research examining depression & anxiety in the context of social networking sites.
We have got a number of developments that we want to get out before the end of the year, the most important being the answer engine.
The answer engine works by interpreting the search terms to infer the question and then using a variety of techniques to find the best answer. This is then displayed at the top of the results.
If you work for the NHS England can you please complete this brief poll below.
This year Health Education England paid for a trial of Trip Pro for all staff in England and as we approach the end of the year we’re discussing what happens next year. This poll should help inform these discussions. NOTE: To register your vote you need to press the ‘Vote’ button under each of the three questions.
A quick demonstration of how to access journals online. This session will include information on getting and using an Athens password, how to find out which journals we subscribe to, accessing full text journal articles, setting up alerts and using journal apps. Our journals are both clinical and non-clinical (such as Harvard Business Review) so the session is suitable for all staff.
There are some changes to our journal subscriptions for 2017. HSJ and the Nursing Times will no longer be published in print so our subscriptions will be available online only.
In this article, Raymond Pun, an academic librarian, shares his experiences in collaborating with Stan Bogdanov, an instructional designer, to promote gamification programs in libraries. The two professionals, from different institutions in different parts of the world, have presented on their gamification projects and programs in conferences, jointly and independently. The article shares their thoughts on employing gamification in libraries by highlighting key examples from their experiences and describing how readers can apply gamification aspects to their own projects. Gamification provides a lot of opportunities for your users. From developing skills associated with interactive game play to promoting de-stressing activities, gamification can facilitate innovative learning. Certainly, it is not the answer to all of a learner's problems. While it may not work for everyone, gamification can serve as an effective tool to enhance your library services and is a concept certainly worth exploring. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
We have established a team of ‘Copyright First Responders’ which includes NHS library staff from each region. Our role will be to provide advice and answers where we can, and refer you to other experts if we can’t.
We will also maintain a central store of guidance and FAQs at http://www.libraryservices.nhs.uk/forlibrarystaff/information/nhs_copyright.html .
We have set up a single email address: nhscopyrightqueries@libraryservices.nhs.uk. So if you have a query about copyright, don’t break out into a cold sweat, contact us and we’ll respond!
The new updated People with Learning Disabilities in England 2016 has been published today and can be found here here
It is a compendium of statistics about the lives of people with learning disabilities. The report covers a wide range of information about population numbers, education, health and social care.
Public health researchers are increasingly concerned with achieving ‘upstream’ change to achieve reductions in the global burden of disease and health inequalities. Consequently, understanding policy and how to change it has become a central goal of public health. Yet conceptualisation of what constitutes policy and where it can be found is very limited within this field. Our glossary demonstrates that policy is many headed. It is located in a vast array of documents, discussions dialogues and actions which can be captured variously by formal and informal forms of documentation and observation. Effectively understanding policy and its relevance for public health requires an awareness of the full range of places and contexts in which policy work happens and policy documents are produced. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
If you're looking for reasons to try out DuckDuckGo and haven't quite got around to it, perhaps this blog post might give you the push you need. Here are a few things that you can do on DDG that you can't do on Google - or if you can, it's more difficult.
Background: Given the high penetration of social media use, social media has been proposed as a method for the dissemination of information to health professionals and patients. This study explored the potential for social media dissemination of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Evidence-Based Nutrition Practice Guideline (EBNPG) for Heart Failure (HF).
This feature has been co-authored by Anna Cunningham and her supervisor Frances Johnson. It is based on the research Anna conducted for her dissertation, which she completed as part of her MA in Library and Information Management at Manchester Metropolitan University. The study explored how people assess the trustworthiness of online health information, and the participants were asked to talk aloud whilst viewing information on the consumer health information website patients.co.uk. The study confirmed that their assessment was based on the information usefulness and credibility as well as identifying the factors relating to information quality and website design that helped to form these judgements.