Regulations coming into force on April 6 will enable six major libraries to collect, preserve and provide long term access to the increasing proportion of the nation’s cultural and intellectual output that appears in digital form – including blogs, e-books and the entire UK web domain. And the Medical Library is one of the libraries […]

Need an evidence base for the 300 most common and/or significant conditions presented in primary care? Then the new, improved Clinical Knowledge Service is for you! www.cks.nhs.uk Accessible only in the UK, CKS service will upgrade the existing CKS service and will be openly accessible to users in the UK. The evidence base that supports […]

Booksale will end on Wednesday 3rd April.  

Prevention is better than cure, after all. So the BBC Horizon programme  “How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery” due to be screened Thursday 21st March should be interesting viewing.   You can also read about what inspired the programme at the BBC magazine page 

If you are used to keeping up to date by channeling RSS feeds into your Google Reader account, prepare for a change. From 1st July 2013, Google will be discontinuing this service.  (you can also read what the BBC has to say about it here.) Anyone looking for alternatives might want to consider some of […]

The new NHS Healthcare Apps library is up and running – making it it simpler for you to you to easily find safe and trusted apps to help you manage your health (or promote to patients to do so). These have been reviewed by the NHS to ensure they are clinically safe and relevant to […]

Booksale now on!  Withdrawn Medical Library textbooks for sale.  Stock changing daily.  Prices competitive.  Subjects include general medicine, pathology, paediatrics, dermatology.  

Which roughly translates as….. in the National Health Service you need an Acronym Buster to Make Sense of it All….. ta-daaaa: The NHS Confederation have just the tool: The Acronym Buster! Plus they’ve got an app:  NHSacronym for it too – available, available free for iPhones and iPad

The Library will be closed over the Easter weekend: Friday 29th March – Monday 1st April. Open for business as usual Tuesday 2nd April 2013.

A new chief executive for Cambridge University Hospitals starts today, 18th February 2013. Read all about Dr Keith McNeil, and listen to the podcast of his interview at BBC Radio Cambridgeshire (only available for a limited period)