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NHS Evidencewww.evidence.nhs.ukIncorporating the National Library for Health

(NLH)NHS Evidence is a brand new website helping people find, access and use high-qualityclinical and non-clinical evidence and best practice. The creation of NHS Evidence wasannounced on June 30th 2008 as part of the High Quality Care for All report from LordDarzi, who stated that: All NHS Staff will have access to a new NHS Evidence servicewhere they will be able to get, through a single web-based portal, authoritative clinicaland non-clinical evidence and best practices.

Built around a powerful search engine, the service consolidates information from a widerange of sources in one central portal.

NHS Evidence is designed to meet the needs of users across the NHS clinicians,nurses, pharmacists and commissioners, among others.

NHS Evidence has just gone live and includes:

a fast, comprehensive search function access to a resource collating information on new drugs for commissioners links to resources previously branded as National Library for Health (NLH)

The service is provided by NICE and now encompasses what was known as theNational Library for Health. These resources are still available but have been rebrandedto fit in with the new NHS Evidence image. They can still be accessed directly throughwww.library.nhs.uk and you will still need your Athens password to access resources.

Additional functionality and content will be added in future versions of NHS Evidence,so watch this space, we will be the first to let you know.

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Information Skills Surgeries

Summer 09Have you got a health information problem that needs treatment?We can help you find the information you need for your work, studies, research or professionaldevelopment - fast, effectively & pain free!

Drop in to one of our regular county-wide consultations and tell us where it hurts.

* no problem too small (or too big!) ** friendly, informal, all skills levels catered for ** confidential one-to-one support *

* hands on ** no need to book ** ALL staff welcome *

All surgeries run from 10.00am -2pm

Not the best time or place for you? Let us know when and where would suit you andwell be pleased to help.

Elizabeth.saunders@worcsacute.nhs.uk07789504785

Richard.brook@worcsacute.nhs.uk01527 505771

Kidderminster Health Library:

Tuesday 5th May

Monday 18

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MayTuesday 2nd JuneMonday 22nd JuneTuesday 7th July

Monday 20th July

Redditch Health LibraryIT Room, Alexandra

Hospital:

Thursday 14th MayThursday 4th JuneThursday 18th JuneThursday 2nd JulyThursday 16th July

Rowlands LibraryCharles Hastings Education

Centre, WRH:

Thursday 7th MayThursday 21st MayThursday 11th JuneThursday 25th JuneThursday 9th July

Evesham CommunityHospital Library:

Wednesday 20th MayWednesday 24th JuneWednesday 15th July

Worcestershire HealthLibraries

www.wkp.nhs.uk

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Contacts

Redditch Health Library, RedditchTel: (01527) 503030 Ext: 45770E-mail: alex.library@worcsacute.nhs.uk

Evesham Community Hospital LibraryPlease contact Rowlands Library

Kidderminster Health LibraryTel: (01562) 512344 (dir. line) or Ext: 55253E-mail: khl@worcsacute.nhs.uk

Rowlands Library, WRH.

Tel: (01905) 760601 (dir. line) or(01905) 763333 Ext: 33760E-mail: Rowlands.Enquiries@worcsacute.nhs.uk

Elizabeth Saunders LINKS trainerTel: 07789 504785E-mail: Elizabeth.Saunders@worcsacute.nhs.uk

Richard Brook Knowledge skills trainerTel: (01527) 505771 or Ext: 45771E-mail: Richard.Brook@worcsacute.nhs.uk

WORCESTERSHIRE KNOWLEDGE PORTAL

www.wkp.nhs.uk

New Stock IdeasNeeded!

We need your ideas for new books,DVDs or multimedia resources to

furnish our health libraries. If you feelcertain areas are underrepresented byour current stock now is the chance tolet us know. Contact us and we will seeif we can add your suggestions to ourcollection.

Kidderminster Jan Brown,jan.brown@worcsacute.nhs.uk or ext55253Redditch David Chamberlain,david.chamberlain@worcsacute.nhs.uk

or ext 45773Worcester and Evesham,nicholas.smith@worcsacute.nhs.ukorext 33762

Get articles scanneddirect to your inbox!

If you need an article from a journal held by thehealth libraries at Worcester or Redditch you nolonger need to visit the library to collect, and youdont even have to wait for the article in the post!

Just give us the reference and your email addressand we will scan the article for you and email it toyou directly. All articles will be sent as PDFs, somake sure you have access to Adobe reader.

There is no charge for this service, so contactyour local health library with your references

today to try it out.

Rowlands.enquiries@worcsacute.nhs.ukAlex.library@worcscute.nhs.ukkhl@worcsacute.nhs.uk

Journal renewalsIt is that time of year again when weconsider our journal holdings for 2010.To do this we would like your help. If youhave any views on our current holdings,or have suggestions for new titles thenlet us know.

We are also interested to know if youwould like electronic access to particular journals that we currently dont haveaccess to. Visit our E-journal A-Z (seeback page) to peruse our currentelectronic journals.

We would also like to remind readersthat we are open to current journaldonations, so for example if you justthrow your journal away after reading it,or have multiple copies in yourdepartment, then why not considerdonating your read copies to your local

health library.

Visit www.wkp.nhs.uk and search ourlibrary catalogue to view our currentjournal holdings.

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Stay Informed!To receive an electronic copy of KKnnoowwlleeddggee UUppddaattee, straight to your inbox, simply emailNicholas.smith@worcsacute.nhs.uk stating that you would like to subscribe. We will then addyou to our circulation list and you will receive aa ccooppyy as soon as it is released.

We regret that we can no longer offer a paper subscription to our newsletters as we areactively trying to save on the amount of paper we use in accordance with Trust policy.

KKnnoowwlleeddggee UUppddaatteecan also be accessed on our library website, so visit us online today atour library website the Worcestershire Knowledge Portal www.wkp.nhs.uk. Our librarywebsite and blog has all the latest news coming from Worcestershire Health Libraries plusvia our website you can access our library catalogue, find library staff details and get accessto our electronic resources.

E-Jounals A-Z

Have you visited our E-Journals A-Z (http://www.wkp.nhs.uk/ejournals.html). You can see ifthe journal you need is available electronically? Here you will find electronic access to all ofthe e-journals we subscribe to, plus access to journals provided by the NHS. To access thisresource you will need an Athens username and password.

An Athens account is free to anyone working for the NHS, so make sure you have set-up youraccount today. To register follow the link below and fill in the requested details

(https://register.athensams.net/nhs/nhseng/?county=nhswor) to open up a gateway toevidence-based information resources.

If you have any Athens queries, or would like to know more about eligibility and the resourcesavailable then contact our Athens co-ordinator Sarah Parnell sarah.parnell@worcsacute.nhs.uk01527 505770

Currently we have access from the AcuteTrust intranet to both adult and paediatricversions of the Isabel Diagnostic Checklistsystem. Isabel has also been successfullyused in top US hospitals to improvediagnosis quality and reduce clinical risk.

A Grand Rounds session featuring ademonstration of the system by the CEO ofIsabel Healthcare, Jason Maude, is to beheld on Thursday 21st May. So far wehave used Isabel as a teaching aid, but

Jason will show how the system can alsosignificantly impact on several of the currentDH policy priorities. Grand Rounds is in theCHEC Lecture Theatre from 1am 2pm.Everyone is welcome to attend.

Worcestershire is an early adopter of theMap of Medicine. The Worcestershire

Diabetes Network Board will be publishingits first local Diabetes Pathways this month.This has been achieved with support fromthe ICT Project Team, the KnowledgeManagement Team and the ClinicalDevelopment Team from WorcestershirePCT. The project has a number of clearlydefined objectives, including improvingcommunication links, making evidencebased practice accessible and facilitatingseamless care.

Work is continuing to plan themainstreaming of the system. When fullytrialled, the local Map will be accessible viasmartcards.