With the publication of the White Paper “Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS”  there are several overviews which you might find useful: The Knowledge & Library Service at Newham University Hospital NHS Trust have created a blog post which brings together both their synopsis and also many comments from other sources, including Kings Fund, NHS Confederations, […]

The Oxford based Centre for Evidence Based Medicine have made a wide selection of powerpoints available from their website.Titles include: Introduction to EBM – Paul Glasziou RCT Appraisal – Dan Lasserson Systematic Reviews – Paul Glasziou Did you know that CEBM also have a YouTube channel?  http://www.youtube.com/user/cebmed This is just one example of the content: “A Clinical Introduction […]

http://www.healthknowledge.org.uk/interactive-learning/finding-and-appraising-the-evidence Overall introduction to critical appraisal Finding the evidence Randomised controlled trials Systematic reviews Economic evaluations Making sense of results

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/audio/2010/jun/24/sense-about-science-lecture-2010 http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=412187&c=1 http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/other/297/  an independent charitable trust promoting good science and evidence in public debates Dr Fiona Godlee, editor of the BMJ, delivers the annual Sense About Science lecture on the theme ‘It’s time to stand up for science once more’

image from Queen’s Library, Flickr UPDATE (30th June 2010): thank you for your patience – the catalogue is back, better than ever, but looking pretty much exactly the same!

Health needs of people with Learning Disabilities from the NHS Evidence – learning disabilities specialist collection  People with learning disabilities have a higher level of health needs than the general population, many of which are unmet. The Health Needs Annual Evidence Update 2010 will provide bibliographies of published research for the following key health issues: Cancer Challenging behaviour Coronary […]

Age UK National Falls Awareness Week 21st – 25th June, 2010 Falls among elderly people cost the NHS more than £4.6 million a day, new analysis found. Up to one in three (3.4 million) people over 65 fall each year in the UK, existing figures show. Almost half of all falls are among the over-80s, […]

A pictures is worth a thousand words…. so where to get the best images? TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice) has got a database of over 113,000 images – and also pulls from Google images. On the front page of results you’ll see the “four top medical images for a given search term on the main results page. We […]

Oesophago-gastric cancers This is the second Annual Evidence Update on oesophago-gastric cancers prepared jointly by NHS Evidence – cancer and NHS Evidence – gastroenterology and liver diseases. It includes an editorial by Dr Jamshed Bamanji (MBBS, PhD, FRCR, FRCP, Head of the Department, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, T5, University College Hospital)   The update of […]