Knowledge for Healthcare is Health Education England’s new strategic development framework for NHS library and knowledge services in England. It sets out HEE’s commitment to helping ensure that all staff and learners, patients and the public can access and use the best knowledge and evidence available for learning, research, innovation and clinical and  organisational decision-making […]

Do you ever need a bit of support in diagnosing and classifying mental disorders? Cambridge University now has access to the newly updated 5th edition of the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders from American Psychiatric Publishing. This is the new edition of the most comprehensive resource used by health professionals, social workers, and […]

This month in Eyes on Evidence Pharmacy-based screening for cardiovascular risk A systematic review suggests that pharmacy-based screening for cardiovascular risk factors may be possible. However, many people do not act on the advice to visit their GP, and the effect of screening on new diagnoses has not been robustly shown. Self-management of hypertension in […]

In advance of the building of our new training room, we’ve relocated our current journals.   You’ll now find the journals conveniently located near the comfy seats. Please note, the building work for the new training room starts on Monday 12th January – we apologise for the inevitable disruption.

It happens to us all – our phone is running out of charge just when you need to use it, and you’ve forgotten your charger. Help is at hand – the Medical Library is now able to loan out multi-device chargers that plug into any PC. These will be loaned on a daily basis (ie […]

In January 2015 there will be disruption in the Medical Library. Owing to pressure on space in the Clinical School we are relocating our training room inside the library (the space will then add to the office space for the School.) This will mean that there will be noise and disruption from January 12th 2015. […]

Not sure how to find an Ebook?  What medical e-books are available? Do you wonder how to download an Ebook to your smart device? Are there any Ebooks available in my area of medicine??? For answers to these and other Ebook questions, demonstrations on how to use Ebooks on smart devices, come along to the […]

This month in Eyes on Evidence Home-based self-sampling to test for sexually transmitted infections A systematic review and meta-analysis suggests that taking samples at home compared with taking samples in a clinic improves the uptake of testing for sexually transmitted infections among women. Risk of cervical or vaginal cancer in women treated for cervical intraepithelial […]

In the week of 10th November, we spent a bit of time trying to find out what you thought of the library, how you used it, etc. These statistics are submitted to RLUK, the NHS like to know what we’re doing, and we like to know what you think of us – so one weeks […]

This month in Eyes on Evidence Eyes on Evidence survey Thank you to all our readers who have completed the Eyes on Evidence survey. There’s still time to share your views on the bulletin by completing the short online survey before the end of November. Premature death in people with learning disabilities A population-based cohort […]