Following improved access and optimisation of the website, the NICE guidance app will no longer be available for download with plans to phase it out by January 2019.
We’ve created a new collection at the Health Library called Patient Voices. Here you can read stories from the patient perspective of how they live with, cope and manage their and their family’s healthcare situations.
Librarians and information specialists are often involved in the process of preparing and completing systematic reviews (SRs), where one of their main tasks is to identify relevant references to include in the review. Although several recommendations for the process of searching have been published, none describe the development of a systematic search strategy from start to finish. Open Access Article
This review aimed to determine if the use of the patient, intervention, comparison, outcome (PICO) model as a search strategy tool affects the quality of a literature search. Open Access Article
This study recommends the top 4 websites on perinatal anxiety for health care professionals and users. There is a need for websites to be developed that provide accurate, evidence-based information that women can relate to with quality support resources. Furthermore, these sites should be easy to use and readable
However, Article 11 could change that principle and require online services to strike commercial deals with publishers to show hyperlinks and short snippets of news. This means that search engines, news aggregators, apps, and platforms would have to put commercial licences in place, and make decisions about which content to include on the basis of those licensing agreements and which to leave out.
Two years of investment and hard work come to fruition next week when a new library opens its doors.
The city centre library on the ground floor of the former St Mary’s Church, Lichfield, will welcome the public from 9am on Monday, December 17th.
It is the culmination of a £1.4m investment over two years which also sees a tourist information centre installed on the ground floor and a versatile venue with gallery, heritage and performance space on the first floor, along with a history access point for digitised archive collections.
We’ve put together a reading list of useful material such as books, journal articles, educational board games, and websites to help you meet the requirements of each of the 15 areas.
Open access. As mental healthcare expands to smartphone apps and other technologies that may offer therapeutic interventions without a therapist involved, it is important to assess the impact of non-traditional therapeutic relationships.
Successful applicants have been named to take on the management and day-to-day running of five more Staffordshire libraries.
Contracts have been offered to a parish council, local community group, business enterprise organisation and two Rotary Clubs to take on the daily management and delivery of Staffordshire County Council’s libraries at Cheadle, Cheslyn Hay, Clayton, Eccleshall and Penkridge.
A wide range of themes are covered in the shared memory bags collection. The new bags cover themes including Countryside, Family Life, In the Garden and Funny Old World.
Shropshire Libraries worked with local partners to produce the latest bags. The Diocese of Lichfield’s Dementia Churches programme contributed knowledge, practical help and objects to the faith-based bag ‘Strength for the Journey.’ In Oswestry, two Welsh-speaking community groups provided funding for the bilingual ‘Land of My Fathers’ memory bag.
The current systematic review system suits lots of people and any large change would be like turkeys voting for Christmas! One thing I’m fairly certain of is that we’ll look back at the way we do evidence synthesis and have regrets! We’ll certainly regret not spending more effort understanding the evidence base for evidence synthesis.
The 5th annual international User Experience in Libraries conference, or UXLibsV, will take place at Royal Holloway, University of London, on 17-19 June 2019. This year’s theme is ‘From Research to Design’ (see below for more details).
Items include: increasing BME representation at senior level in NHS; improving mentorship at Combined - case study; Together we're better - organisational development and leadership factsheet from Staffs and Stoke on Trent STP; voices of [quiet] nursing students; teen health information literacy, empowerment and leadership programme in US; attachment and leadership; managing care errors in the wards; influence of change-oriented leadership on work performance and job satisfaction in hospitals; people with autism in the workplace; reducing turnover and improving retention of early career nurses;
Our Dataset Search tool helps people find data sources wherever they’re hosted, as long as the data is described in a way that search engines can locate. Since the tool launched a few months ago, we’ve seen the number of unique datasets on the platform double to 10 million, including contributions from the U.S. National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Federal Reserve, the European Data Portal, the World Bank and government portals from every continent.
European Psychologist Vol. 24, Iss. 1, (2019): 68-81. DOI:10.1027/1016-9040/a000350
The objective of this paper is to synthesize and update findings from systematic review on health literacy and health outcomes among patients with long-term conditions, and extend the review to the digital domain. Health outcomes include clinical outcomes, processes of care, and health service use.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The authors developed a validated geographic search filter to retrieve research about the United Kingdom (UK) from OVID Embase. It was created to be used alongside their previously published OVID MEDLINE UK filter in systematic literature searches for context‐sensitive topics.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Conclusions: Serious gaming/gamification appears to be at least as effective as controls, and in many studies, more effective for improving knowledge, skills, and satisfaction. However, the available evidence is mostly of low quality and calls for further rigorous, theory-driven research
People will be able to get up-close with Staffordshire’s extensive archives collections in a single, modern centre, if a revised bid for funding submitted to The National Lottery Heritage Fund is successful.
Revised plans for the Staffordshire History Centre project would see a new extension to Staffordshire Record Office on Eastgate Street in Stafford bringing together three separate collections and services.
The European RHAPSODY project sought to develop and test an online information and support programme for caregivers of individuals diagnosed with young‐onset dementia. The objectives were to assess user acceptability and satisfaction with the programme, and to test outcome measures for a larger effectiveness study.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Rare disease patients find independent health information seeking necessary due to the general lack of knowledge on rare diseases and inadequate information provision by health care professionals.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Letter. Dr Launer provides significant insight into the challenges faced by doctors in his article ‘Managing the threat to reflective writing’.1 In particular, attention has been focused on the approaches to sustain reflective practice in postgraduate education.
As a junior doctor, I volunteered to become a reflective writing tutor for medical students in first year clinical training. Students were given constructive guidance for these assignments, including examples of the different models used in reflective practice; the Gibbs’ cycle (description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusions and actions) was highlighted as an exemplar framework.2 My task was then to provide feedback to students on reflective writing pieces through the year and award an overall score. But can we—or should we—grade reflective writing? . To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The presentations from the event, where available, are below.
Nancy Kline Round and Shared Developments (updated 18 July 2019) - Vicky Bramwell and Kieron Lamb
Northern Lights - Andrew Craig
LIHNN AGM - Kieron Lamb
Treasurers report
Group updates
Cheshire and Merseyside
Clinical Librarians and Trainers
Greater Manchester
Mental Health Libraries
Northern Lights Newsletter
PANDDA Group
It’s Great Up North - LIHNN Winners
Best 3 Minutes of Mayhem Winner – Julie Potter
Best Session Winner - Sinead English
PubMed recently announced that they are retiring LinkOut and urged libraries to sign up for their Outside Tool instead. LinkOut made it fairly easy for NHS libraries to get their resources into PubMed but Outside Tool is a bit trickier.
We’ve had a really interesting problem, one I’m at a loss to answer…
The user was looking for articles on ‘lead’ (the metal) and was clearly getting lots of noise from articles that use the not metal version of the term, such as:
Lead-I ECG devices for detecting sym….
…Bone Loss and Leads to Faster…
At Leeds Libraries for Health partnership ten of us deliver a joint training programme. We each have our own ways of training people and we wanted to explore this so that we could learn from each other. We chose to start by looking at how we teach searching the healthcare databases (HDAS) as this is something we all teach and there were some concepts that we wanted to look at different ways of teaching (e.g. the thesaurus).
This week we're launching six new media literacy activities for Be Internet Awesome, designed to help kids analyze and evaluate media as they navigate the internet.