The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is a one stop shop to help you embed evidence into your daily practice.
It includes:
Take a look at our demonstration for how to use the tool here:
With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust, the latest edition of the Serious Mental Illness bulletin is now available to view.
You may need an Open Athens account to read some of the literature. For support setting up an account or help accessing any of the documents please contact; academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
The Cochrane Library is a collection of high-quality independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
The Cochrane library promotes evidence-informed health decision-making by producing high-quality, relevant, accessible systematic reviews and other synthesized research evidence.
Their work is internationally recognised as the benchmark for high-quality information about the effectiveness of health care and is generally known as the ‘Gold Standard’ for systematic reviews.
Access the library here. For help with this please email the library team: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
Please feel free to download our resource of the month poster and share with your team or within your department.
The current bulletins for Substance Misuse and Coronavirus 19, Covid-19 and the Health Workforce and Covid-19 and Mental Health, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, are now available to view and download.
For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletins please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
The current bulletin for physical and mental illness, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download.
For any support accessing any of the articles within the bulletin please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
The latest edition of Digital Mental Health Current Awareness bulletin, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health, is now available to view and download.
Long Covid: evidence, recommendations and priority research questions.
House of Lords; 2020.
[Written evidence from the House of Lords’ COVID-19 Committee: Life beyond COVID Inquiry. “Long Covid is a distinct condition affecting approximately 60,000 people in the UK … Clinical guidance and local protocols for long Covid are currently highly variable. This is likely to be contributing to the patient experience of inconsistent and fragmented care.” The paper recommends that a 4-tier clinical service be developed.]
Further to our recent post about trouble accessing Royal Marsden Online, we can now confirm that this issue has been resolved. You can now access this resource by login in via their website here. Sorry for any inconveniences this has caused. If you have any further questions or queries about this resource, or any other electronic resources please contact the library services here.
Health Information Week 2020 runs from 6th to 12th July and focuses on the themes of:
• Finding information you can trust
• Wellbeing
During this week the library has been promoting both themes via the library blog and in the Gosall Library.
In our final post in this series we would like to introduce you to the Library Evidence Hub; a resource bank of carefully selected material that has been collected together with the aim of being a one-stop shop for staff and students who work and study at LSCFT.
Read here for more details and a user guide to get you started.
