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.
We have developed a new guidance document for HR professionals across the NHS.
Covering three key areas: recruitment, staff engagement and HR policy, the guide aims to to help you integrate social media in your organisation.
The MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, based at the University of Glasgow, today launches a free, interactive websiteopens in new window designed to explain complex health research.
The Understanding Health Researchopens in new window website is the creation of a collaboration between the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit and an advisory panel of academics*. [We need to look at this in the library]
To help you make the most of the opportunities social media can provide, we have launched a comprehensive social media toolkit packed full of sector-specific insight, advice and best practice on how to use social media effectively.
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.
Following the recent launch by the publishers of the British National Formulary (BNF) and British National Formulary for children (BNFC) of a new, faster, easier to use and access app, NICE has confirmed that its BNF app will be withdrawn later this year.
The Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill was introduced to the House of Lords on Tuesday 3 July and seeks to replace the current system known as ‘Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards’ (DoLs).
DoLs is an assessment currently carried out on people who do not have the mental capacity to make their own decisions about their care, for example because they are living with dementia. It was criticised by a 2017 Law Commission review for being too complex and bureaucratic.
The government has now developed a new system, known as ‘Liberty Protection Safeguards’, which will become law through the bill.
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.
The plans follow two detailed consultations which have taken place during the course of this year and will mean original proposals to close six of the borough’s nine libraries have been ripped up.
Now three of those six libraries – Donnington, Dawley and Stirchley – will be run by Town or Parish Councils. Also a fourth library in Hadley will be run by Hadley Learning Community, supported by Hadley & Leegomery Parish Council.
This was after the Town and Parish Councils expressed concerns about their library closing and indicated they would be interested in running a community lead library.
A new £1.4m library and arts and heritage space in the centre of Lichfield will open in December.
The investment in the former St Mary’s Church has opened up the ground floor to accommodate the library and tourist information centre, while the first floor will include a versatile gallery, heritage and performance space, as well as an access point for digitised archive collections.
NHS Knowledge and Library Services Community of Practice joins the Green Libraries Campaign to support the campaign's growth and evolution as for new green intiatives and activities in 2024 onwards. News release. We have a sustainability action on this year's delivery plan - will this help?
We just launched the RD&E Research repository
This is an online collection of research publications data of articles, abstracts and conference papers authored by researchers working for our Trust, with full-text of articles included where publisher’s permissions allow.
http://rde.openrepository.com/rde
Its a joint collaboration between the Research & Development department and the Trust library service, to make the research outputs of the Trust visible and available to the general public.
In this article, guest writers from the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Italy, the leading scientific technical body of the Italian National Health Service present a historic case study considering the role and evolution of the information specialists at their institution over a twenty year period. The paper places a particular emphasis on the initiatives undertaken in consumer health information and health literacy promotion, in order to improve public health in Italy. Areas covered include the development of online health information provision, early strategies to support the improvement of health literacy, and national projects and collaborations.. 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.
Improved our indexing of PubMed. Previously we’d been grabbing all the content from PubMed via eUtilities and we only realised recently that this included all the additional meta-data including things like related articles and cited articles data. This created false positive results. Our new indexing will now only grab content from the abstract. This means results counts are both reduced and more accurate (less noise).
We’ve worked with industry experts to create a Social Media Toolkit to instruct, educate and guide healthcare organisations on how to best use social media. Covering a wide range of topics; from writing your social media strategy and making sure you’re measuring your efforts, to how you can engage those within your organisation to also see the value of social media. Featuring contributions from leading thinkers in social media from within healthcare and across the public sector, the toolkit also gives examples of organisations already doing great things on social media and seeing the rewards.
This toolkit is free to access for all.
It’s also your toolkit, so if it’s missing anything or you want to add to it, then let us know.
People are being given the opportunity to try volunteering in their local library as part of a new campaign.
The new roles are available in all Staffordshire libraries and are designed to help people explore their own interests whilst making a difference in their community.
In return for helping for a minimum of just two hours a week, volunteers will have the opportunity to meet new people and learn new skills whilst helping the community to get the most out of their library.
A new library management system which will promote collaboration between cross-sector libraries in Wales was celebrated at an event in the National Assembly.
The new bilingual library management system will deliver cost benefits, greater collaboration, and the potential to share collections throughout Wales.
It will be shared by Welsh university libraries, NHS libraries, and the National Library of Wales. Bangor and Glyndwr Universities recently completed the roll-out of the system, finalising the implementation schedule across Wales.
A new resource on CQC’s website, which will see pages added as new topics are addressed, explores the use of technology in care, looking at the benefits of innovation and updating previously published information on surveillance.
We have published new resources dedicated to work-based learning.
The new web section and infographic aims to support employers with understanding the key elements which need to be in place to successfully enable a culture of work-based learning, such as when implementing apprenticeships.
The resources cover topics from senior leadership and management buy-in, to infrastructure, workforce planning and robust relationships with education providers.
To advance evidence on newly graduated nurses’ use of knowledge sources. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
From 1 May 2017, a new mental health and wellbeing service for young people has been introduced across Telford and Wrekin and Shropshire.
The aim of the service is to provide a much wider choice of care options for those aged 0-25 and their families and carers, and to help them engage with local services and transform their emotional health and well-being.
Public health nurses (PHNs) are challenged in obtaining opportunities to learn evidence-based practice (EBP). An interdisciplinary alliance was created between health sciences librarians and nurse educators to create a continuing education (CE) opportunity.
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.
200,000 homeless, older and vulnerable people have had ‘lessons’ to get online and contact their doctor reducing GP visits and costs to the NHS.
In the first two years of the NHS England pilot scheme ‘Widening Digital Participation’ 14,000 people registered with a GP and looked online first before contacting the doctor.
Half of those who would have gone to the GP or A&E said they would now use NHS Choices, 111 or a pharmacy first.
Run by the Tinder Foundation for NHS England, the scheme works with hardest-to-reach communities giving them the skills and confidence to access online health information.
This document builds on previous NHS Digital guidance on digital inclusion for health and social care.
Use it to design and implement inclusive digital approaches and technologies, which are complementary to non-digital services and support.
NHS England has announced new funding for seven mental health trusts to enable these organisations to pioneer world-class, digital services to improve care for patients experiencing mental health issues.
This will include, for the first time, all key professionals involved in a patient’s care having access to real-time records – from triage and initial assessment, through to admissions or referrals, as well as transfer between services and follow up care.
The trusts will also develop remote, mobile and assistive technologies to empower patients to manage their conditions and enable family and carers to provide the best possible support.
The NHS App went into the Apple App and Google Play stores on Monday 31 December, with a web based version due to launch in the coming months.
During testing between September and December, NHS England and NHS Digital teams listened to feedback from patients and practice staff and used this to make improvements to the app and plan the national rollout. Changes included improving the online registration process, how GP appointment information is presented, and changes to the information patients see before accessing their GP medical record.
It is estimated that in many settings nurses provide 80 per cent of patient care and they are often the clinicians leading the way in utilising new technology, and creating innovative ways of improving care using new digital tools.
NHS Digital exists to improve health and social care in England by making better use of technology, data and information.
A pioneering new initiative to lift the lid on the NHS through the voices of the people on its frontline goes live today with the launch of the @NHS Twitter account.
Great news if you work for NHS England, you can access Trip Pro for ‘free’. Health Education England has entered into a trial, till the end of 2016. This makes Trip Pro free to all NHS staff in England.
If you work for the NHS in England and are not automatically upgraded to Trip Pro (we use your computers IP address) either contact your library or me: jon.brassey@tripdatabase.com
Research is firmly embedded in the NHS Mandate 2017 – 2018 (see Objective 8 “To support research, innovation and growth”). It probably didn’t need a directive to point out the importance of research to patients and patient care. Research is also core business for NHS libraries. This is a reflection on how we can make research a distinctive part of our service offering. It’s based on personal experience and best practice using the tried and tested ‘n things’ model.
The technology will help patients, especially the elderly, blind and those who cannot access the internet through traditional means, to get professional, NHS-verified health information in seconds, through simple voice commands.
Health Education England (HEE) will work jointly with NHS Improvement to develop HEE’s mandate for 2019/20 onwards. HEE’s board will continue to sign-off the draft mandate, but as a new step the mandate will then need to be approved by NHS Improvement’s board to ensure it meets service requirements, before approval by the Secretary of State. This will ensure that workforce plans are more closely aligned with NHS service plans.
Bit of a mishmash but the section on using AI in searching/synthesising results is interesting in terms of the way things are going - don't think there are any immediate actions here.
NHS specialists and patients have joined forces to launch the UKs first freely accessible app review website specifically aimed at Stroke and Brain Injury.
The website, which can be accessed at www.my-therappy.co.uk, helps people find the right app for their recovery and rehabilitation.
It offers a database of apps tested and recommended by clinical specialists and expert patients. The apps also come with a star rating and genuine user feedback and reviews.
Useful section on most common reasons why searches were rejected - could be part of a checklist for when we're doing peer review. Added to Evidence Wiki.
The NHS Library Quality Assurance Framework (LQAF) version 2.3a, April 2016 contains the national standards for NHS library/knowledge services together with guidance on how to measure the degree of compliance with the standards. Two criteria were revised for the 2.3a version: 1.3c impact and 5.3l patient and public information.
We’ve had feedback from a number of library staff, asking how Evidence search works behind the scenes to produce the sets of results that you are presented with. We thought a set of notes for advanced searchers would give some insight to how Evidence search works, explain what happens when different search features are used, and provide some extra hints/tips for searching. The notes cover ranking of search results, word stemming (lemmatisation), synonym expansion and wildcard searching, phrase searching, Boolean operators, stop words, spelling correction and UK vs international searching.
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.