Dear all

It looks as though the NeLH is finally going to get approval to move from being a "pilot" to the real thing.

David

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Colleagues
Posted forward at Nick Rosen's request
Valerie

Valerie Ferguson
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From: Rosen <mailto:[log in to unmask]>  Nick
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Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:23 PM
Subject: NeLH Update February 03

NeLH Update Feb 03

NeLH Business Case Approval

The Full Business Case for the NeLH service for the next 3 years has passed three crucial milestones.

 It has been approved by the Programme Board, by the NHS IA Board and the project has passed OGC Gateway 3 (investment decision) with a green light.

The remaining stage for the business case is approval by the Department of Health as soon as possible.

Procuring the Library

Content & Specialist Library suppliers selected, all remaining issues being addressed with suppliers to be notified early February

Health Information Environment Procurement underway, long-listing completed with potential suppliers due to submit proposals by early March


Content
Existing Featured Content
New Version of Clinical Evidence available.  January 2003 edition includes new topics such as Insomnia and Pancreatic cancer, and updated topics, such as acute myocardial infarction and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. There is also a new drug nomenclature and brand names table. It includes all drugs mentioned in Clinical Evidence: their international name, UK name, USA name, and both US and UK brand names. www.nelh.nhs.uk/clinicalevidence
50 000 paper copies of Concise Clinical Evidence are being distributed to NHS Staff including General Practitioners by post and for collection at post-graduate education centres for all other staff. FAQs at www.nelh.nhs.uk/clinicalevidence/faq.asp <http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/clinicalevidence/faq>
Diabetes NSF. The NSF Zone www.nelh.nhs.uk/nsf/diabetes contains links to related Diabetes resources in NHS Direct Online, NeLH and elsewhere, and will continue to develop as a growing resource supporting consultation, feedback and planning over the coming period leading up to the full publication and implementation of the Diabetes NSF.
New version of The Cochrane Library available.  www.nelh.nhs.uk/cochrane Version 1, 2003 includes 77 new reviews, such as day hospital versus admission policy for people with acute psychiatric disorders, whether pre-term infants do better if nursed in cots or incubators, and whether a placebo is different to nothing in drug trials.

New Features of NeLH
Completed
Health Informatics launches Events News feed.  The Health informatics Specialist Library automatically polls the events pages of collaborating websites, which are collated to produce a combined listing which can then be reproduced within other websites.
Health Informatics organisations can now use this free service by following the  instructions provided on the news-feed website www.nelh.nhs.uk/informatics/events <http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/informatics/events/>
Development
Completed
The latest NICE Schizophrenia Guideline has been added to the NeLH Full-text Collection: see: www.nelh.nhs.uk/guidelinefinder/

150 new Guidelines have been added to the Guideline Finder database - following a survey of Specialist Library requirements. Non-UK guidelines will now be added and look out for future changes in news features for guidelines.

Service Re-design toolkits (1)  from the Modernisation Agency's Coronary Heart Disease Services Collaborative have also been added to the CHD NSF Zone www.nelh.nhs.uk/nsf/chd
Service Re-design toolkits (2) from the Modernisation Agency's Cancer Services Collaborative will be added to the Cancer NSF Zone. www.nelh.nhs.uk/nsf/cancer/

Planned

Development of the new RMS system for NeLH continues. Child Health, Coronary Heart Disease, Musculo-skeletal Diseases and Communicable Diseases will trial the system during Feb/March together with the Guidelines Finder and NSF Zones. The URL for the prototype system will be shared with other Specialist Libraries and evaluation will lead to a full working version for April/May this year. Specialist Library content will migrate to the new system over the coming year and there will further development of enhanced functionality during this time.

NeLH Emergency Care is about to launch an emergency care leads toolkit. This resource has links to all sorts of documents and evidence around emergency healthcare modernisation. It will be going live during February.  www.nelh.nhs.uk/emergency

Communications
Activity and Feedback
NeLH Usage Rises Again.  NeLH recorded 3.8 million hits in January, equalling its previous record month of November 2002.  NeLH now has 54,000 users a month, which has doubled over the last 12 months.  Additionally, NeLH dealt with 141 feedback requests in January 2003.

Popular NeLH Resources.  NeLH's search engine, Anatomy.TV, Cochrane Library, Clinical Evidence and NeLH Guidelines Finder continue to be the most used resources on the site.

NeLH will be using "Web Trends live" for reporting statistics and will in future be reporting page impressions as an indictor of use along with unique hosts.

Promotional & Training Activities
Completed

The NeLH Communication Plan for 2003/6 has been completed. Key elements are to have 200,000 unique hosts accessing the library per month by 2006 together with 300 strong network of facilitators working with clinicians to firstly raise awareness of the library then raise standards of searching and finally help users integrate know how and knowledge with practise

Planned

Review of Training & Promotional materials. All NeLH items are being reviewed and updated in the next two months in collaboration with stakeholders. There are still promotional items at www.nelh.nhs.uk/publicity and posters are available for download. Orders for new materials are being taken on 08453 660066.

A series of events are being arranged for trainers and librarians in a master class format. At these events delegates will be able to access detailed training of the major resources and have an opportunity to join the NeLH network. Details will be  released in March on www.nelh.nhs.uk/librarian

Presentations and Workshops
6th March 2003 NeLH will be at "Improving healthcare delivery through information technology - focusing on knowledge management and electronic booking"  Northern & Yorkshire ILN Forum Event www.ecommunity.nhs.uk/

Representatives of BMJ Publishing Group will promote NeLH at the RCN Education Show education together with  RCN Independent Nurses event and Community Pharmacists between February and April

F.O.L.I.O Around 200 health librarians across the UK are just about to finish their first three-week online course on project management. The course (the first of three run by Andrew Booth of ScHARR) has been run as pilot as part of the NeLH Librarian Development programme was free to NHS Librarians (including academic and charities). The next course is entitled "Evaluating Your Service" To register send an email by 5pm February 14th with your name and address to [log in to unmask]

Articles & Features

Emergency care Training module article in  NHSIA "Inform" nww.nhsia.nhs.uk/def/pages/inform/informish11/informp8.asp#26#
[more] <http://www.nhsia.nhs.uk/def/pages/pr/03022003.asp>

Anatomy.TV's head and neck was featured the front page image on Royal College of Speech & Language "Bulletin" on www.nelh.nhs.uk/anatomy

NeLH Team
The NeLH is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Ian McKinnell as Knowledge Architect. Ian will be overseeing the integration and development of the NeLH Service using the resource management system (RMS). Read more about the NeLH team at http://www.nhsia.nhs.uk/nelh/pages/team.asp?om=m1
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