Behind the Headlines provides an unbiased and evidence-based analysis of health stories that make the news. The service is intended for both the public and health professionals, and endeavours to: explain the facts behind the headlines and give a better understanding of the science that makes the news, provide an authoritative resource for GPs which […]

Deduplication We continue to deduplicate print journals and move towards electronic journal access. One copy of the print will continue to be held in one of the University libraries, but not in the Medical Library. A list of these titles can be seen here. http://tinyurl.com/medicallibrarydeduplication Cancellations Due to continued financial pressures we propose to cancel […]

The Medical Library will be closed over the Easter weekend: Friday 22nd till Monday 25th inclusive. Normal hours resume at 8am on Tuesday 26th April. Friday 29th April and Monday 2nd May, the Medical Library will be open 9am till 6pm.Saturday 30th April, the Library will be open, as usual, 9am till 5pm

More e-journal access for Local NHS Staff E-journal access for Cambridge University Health Partners* Pilot scheme launched! The scheme allows the University of Cambridge to extend to its partner NHS organisations in CUHP access to the content it already obtains on subscription from the participating publishers. A pilot scheme has been launched, ending December 2011, […]

Read the new Health and Social Care Bill 2010-2011: http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/healthandsocialcare.html Responses from   BMA,   Royal College of Psychiatrists,   Royal College of Physicians,  Royal College of General Practitioners  You can also watch a debate from the BBC between Prof Julian Le Grand from the London Schools of Economics and Prof Martin Roland from Cambridge […]

http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315321/Digital-Researcher.html On 14 February 2011, Vitae and The British Library are running the Digital Researcher 2011 to help researchers make the most of new technologies in their research. The interactive event, which will be held at the British Library, is for postgraduate researchers and research staff. It will include presentations and interactive sessions on subjects […]

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1529  Wednesday, 19 January 2011: 12:00 – 14:00Location: CRASSH Seminar Room Speakers Dr Louise Corti (Associate Director, UK Data Archive and Head of ESDS Qualidata) Dr Libby Bishop (Timescapes Project, University of Leeds About the seminar The drive to make research data accessible to the widest possible scholarly community through archiving and data-sharing mandates proposed […]

Can systematic reviews ever be the same again? The definition of a systematic review is, according the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions is that they: “seek to collate all evidence that fits pre-specified eligibility criteria in order to address a specific research question” But what happens when all the evidence is not available […]

On Thursday 6th January and Tuesday 11th January 2011, there will be a period of downtime on the NHS e-journal links to carry out essential maintenance. Access to NHS e-journals will be problematic durinng this period. We apologise for any inconvenience this will cause.

20th – 24 December Due to adverse weather conditions the library will be shutting at 8pm on 22nd and 23rd December. Further snowfall may require earlier closure. Please phone to check that the library is open before coming in. Phone:- 01223 336750It will close at 12:30 on 24th December