The_Six_Ws_of_Healthcare_Resources

Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Library and Information Service Providing library services to all NHS staff & students in the East Surrey, Crawley & Horsham area The six Ws of healthcare resources What is the resource' Where can the resource be found' NHS Evidence: Health Information Resources formally National Library for Health Who uses the resource' How is the resource accessed' Specialist Collections Why is the resource used' When to use the resource' Behind the Headlines What: A gateway to a large number of nationally available healthcare evidence based information resources What: • Links and resources pertinent to your Where: own discipline, for example: • www.library.nhs.uk Emergency Care, Child Health or Who: Diabetes • NHS Clinical Staff (some patients Where: information) • Via NHS Evidence Health Information How: Resources • Search site www.library.nhs.uk/specialistlibraries/ • Search individual hubs (sections) Who: • Browse Hubs • NHS Clinical Staff • What: • Behind the Headlines critically appraises the evidence behind newspaper articles Via NHS Evidence Health Information Resources NHS Choices www.nhs.uk Patients, NHS Staff Follow link from latest headline Browse headlines by topic Appraisal of newspaper headlines for validity Curiosity Check evidence In answer to clinical query Where: • • Who: • Why: • • • • • • • Provides access to the best evidence and guidance to support healthcare decisions One-stop-shop to healthcare evidence For all your healthcare needs Keeping up to date CPD Evidence in response to uncertainty Research or study How: • • Search all or individual specialist libraries Browse specialist libraries Evidence tailored to your speciality Evidence tailored to your speciality Speciality subject information CPD How: • • When: Why: • • • • Why: • • • • When: When: Clinical Knowledge Summaries Guidance Images What: • Quick answers to real-life questions, with links to detailed evidence based answers Via NHS Evidence Health Information Resources http://cks.library.nhs.uk/home# Primary care and community NHS staff Guidance: management of commonly seen conditions Patient Information Leaflets: printable leaflets for distribution to patients Answers to common queries arising in general practice Evidence-based information about common conditions First contact care. What: • The Guidance Hub provides a search facility for national or international clinical guidelines, protocols and a care pathways Via NHS Evidence Health Information Resources www.library.nhs.uk/guidance/ NHS Clinical Staff Search individual guidance, e.g. NICE Search hub Promote the sharing and dissemination of good practice Clinical guidelines Protocols Care Pathways What: • • High quality medical images such as photographs, illustrations and graphs. Via NHS Evidence Health Information Resources www.library.nhs.uk/images/ NHS Clinical Staff Search images databases e.g. DermIS.net, Gray’s Anatomy Search individual databases Search Image hub Personal use, e.g. research, please check with library staff before reproducing images to ensure adherence to copyright law Presentations Where: • • Where: Where: Who: • Who: • Who: • How: • • • • How: • • How: • • Why: • • • • Why/When: Why: • • • When: • When: Healthcare Databases Journals via NLH The Cochrane Library What: • • Interface for searching core medical databases, e.g. Medline, Cinahl What: • • Electronic list of e- journals, e-books and print journals available in local health library A Journal contents email alerts service via Zetoc is also available with an Athens username and password Via NHS Evidence Health Information Resources www.library.nhs.uk/booksandjournals/ journals/default.aspx NHS Clinical Staff View journal list Search for a journal Set up Journal contents page alerts Set up keyword alerts Current awareness Keeping up to date CPD Clinical Practice Research What: • Databases of reliable evidence on the effectiveness of healthcare interventions. www.thecochranelibrary.com Where: Via NHS Evidence Health Information Resources www.library.nhs.uk/booksandjournals/ NHS Clinical Staff Search databases individually using thesaurus mapping and limits Quick search multiple databases Search for articles (including full-text) by subject To support study To support clinical practice Where: Who: • Who: • Where: • NHS Clinical Staff Advanced Search MeSH subject headings search It is regarded as the best resource available of this type. For best evidence, e.g. systematic reviews Research Evidence in response to uncertainty Research or study How: • • How: • • • Who: How: • • • • Why: • Why: • • • When: • • • • When: Why: • • • • • When: Map of Medicine e-Books via NLH Surrey Health Libraries contact details: Ashford Hospital Health Sciences Library Ashford Tel. 01784 884314 Email. ash.library@asph.nhs.uk www.knowledgenet.ashfordstpeters.nhs.uk What: • The Map of Medicine care pathways database is an online clinical knowledge tool that contains just under 400 evidence-based clinical pathways covering all major areas of medicine and surgery. NHS Clinical Staff – NHSNet (PCs in NHS Trusts only) http://mom.sou.ncrs.nhs.uk Patients – NHS Choices www.nhs.uk, NHS Clinical Staff, Patients What: • Crawley Hospital Library Collection of ebooks to support primary care, and mental health including titles on palliative care and dermatology Crawley Tel. 01293 600368 Email. library.crawley@sash.nhs.uk www.surreyandsussex.nhs.uk/lis Where: • East Surrey Hospital Library Redhill Tel. 01737 768511 x 6056 Email. library.esh@sash.nhs.uk www.surreyandsussex.nhs.uk/lis Where: • • Via NHS Evidence Health Information Resources www.library.nhs.uk/booksandjournals/ journals/default.aspx • Athens username and password required Frimley Park Hospital Health Sciences Library Frimley Tel. 01276 604168 Email. library@fph-tr.nhs.uk www.frimleyparklibrary.nhs.uk Who: • Who: • NHS Clinical Staff Browse topic list Keyword search Key texts direct to your desktop Visual texts chosen, e.g. dermatology Clinical practice How: You can use the Map of Medicine in three ways • Search: for a clinical pathway • Browse: clinical pathways • Filter: clinical presentations How: • • Why: • • • Royal Surrey County Hospital Library Guildford GU2 7XX Tel. 01483 464137 Email. library@royalsurrey.nhs.uk www.stlis.thenhs.com/hln/surrey/gu Why: • • • • • • • Patient information CPD 18 week pathways Visual tool Localisation CPD, Check procedure Planning care at a local level When: St Peter’s Hospital Health Sciences Library Chertsey Tel. 01932 723213 Email. sph.library@asph.nhs.uk www.knowledgenet.ashfordstpeters.nhs.uk When: