Make the best use of your time when looking for evidence-based
resources.
You can stay up-to-date throughout your career, enabling you to
do your job effectively and more efficiently. Here is a selection
of resources for keeping up-to-date:
Up2date is a bulletin published fortnightly by
5 Boroughs Partnership Knowledge and Library Services to help
support you in your practice. To register or receive a sample copy
please email library.5bp@5bp.nhs.uk
Current Bytes is
published fortnightly by Merseycare NHS Knowledge Service to help
keep you up-to-date with new research, news and policy updates. To
register please email rathbone.library@merseycare.nhs.uk
The Library and Information Health Network North West offer
a choice of horizon scanning
bulletins
Run by Andre Tomlin, The
Mental Elf aims to keep people interested in mental health
up-to-date with reliable research, policy and guidance.
Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) is a collaborative
service provided by Librarians in England. It aims to keep health
professional up-to-date with new developments for the benefit of
patient care and improved decision making.
Anyone can set up alerts with Healthcare Databases advanced
search (HDAS). To do this go to
HDAS and login via ATHENS. You can then run searches and
save and create alerts for them using the save selected rows or
save all buttons.
We can help you set up an alert to receive new information
specific to your area of interest. The Outreach Librarian can even
help you do this in your own workplace. Contact Rosalind.McNally@mhsc.nhs.uk
or HIRL@mhsc.nhs.uk