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Did you know?<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

You can access the Health Management Information Consortium (HMIC)<\/a> database with your NHS Athens Account<\/a>. It contacins information, mostly with a UK focus, on health management and services, service development, NHS organisation and administration. Contact the Library for further details or assistance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The impact of clinical librarian services on patients and health care organisationsfrom<\/strong>
\nHealth Information & Libraries Journal, Alison Brettle, Michelle Maden, Clare Payne<\/strong>
\nThis study<\/a> is unique in taking a wide view of potential and specific impacts to which CLs contribute across health care organisations. It is the largest UK evaluation of CL services to date and demonstrates CLs affect direct patient care, improve quality and save money. Future researchers are urged to use the tools presented to collect data on the same outcomes to build a significant and comprehensive international evidence base about the effectiveness and impact of clinical librarian services.<\/p>\n

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Junior doctors\u2019 contract should be ‘consistently’ implemented – Health Service Journal<\/strong>
\nThe chief executive of NHS Improvement has called for the new junior doctors\u2019 contract to be implemented \u201cconsistently\u201d<\/a> across the health service.
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FOI release: FOI Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust \u2013 enforcement action in 2015 and position of the trust\u2019s chair – HM Government<\/strong>
\nMonitor received a request for disclosure of documents<\/a> concerning the position of the chair of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust produced between the end of July and end of October 2015. Monitor disclosed a letter from Monitor to the chair of the trust dated 16 October 2015, but withheld the annexes which contained the proposed enforcement action and timetable. Monitor was asked to conduct an internal review of the decision. The review noted that the proposed enforcement action has now been finalised and published, with only minor amendments. The review also decided that the timetable should be disclosed.<\/p>\n

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What is happening to NHS waiting times? King’s Fund Blog<\/strong>
\nOn 11 February NHS England published its Combined performance summary<\/a>, which provided data on a number of key waiting times commitments. Here we take a closer look at the statistics<\/a> on 18-weeks, diagnostics and A&E. What does the data tell us?<\/p>\n

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Community hospitals face closure under CCG’s plans – Health Service Journal<\/strong>
\nFive community hospitals in Surrey could have services changed<\/a>, and two could close, under plans drawn up by their clinical commissioning group.
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A Refresher on Statistical Significance \u2013 Harvard Business Review<\/strong>
\nWhen you run an experiment or analyze data, you want to know if your findings are \u201csignificant.\u201d But business relevance (i.e., practical significance) isn\u2019t always the same thing as confidence that a result isn\u2019t due purely to chance (i.e., statistical significance). This is an important distinction; unfortunately, statistical significance is often misunderstood and misused <\/a>in organizations today.<\/p>\n

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The impact of long term conditions on employment and the wider UK economy \u2013 The Work Foundation<\/strong>
\nThis report <\/a>looks at the economic implications of six long term conditions (psoriasis, diabetic macular oedema, asthma, schizophrenia, heart failure and multiple sclerosis) in the UK, focusing specifically on the effects on employment for those of working age. It presents data on the direct and indirect costs to the UK society and, where the data exists, projects the likely impact the condition will have in the future.<\/p>\n

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