NeLH.nhs.uk/update/mar03
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NeLH will provide a gateway to resources purchased by the National Core
Content Group. The databases available from April will be Medline,
Psycinfo, Cinahl, Embase, British Nursing Index, AMED and DH-Data (which
makes up 80% of the HMIC dataset) and will be linked to 800 aggregated
full text journals. Provided by Dialog and Proquest the resources will be
made available to all NHS staff using Athens authentication.
www.nelh.nhs.uk/news_ncc.asp

Additionally membership of BioMedCentral has also been agreed. This will
allow NHS researchers to publish peer reviewed articles, that will then be
freely available to general view. NeLH is co-hosting with British Library
and BiomedCentral an open forum on “Open Access in Medical Research
Publishing” to discuss developments www.nelh.nhs.uk/openarchive/
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Content
Existing Featured Content
Hitting the Headlines featured amongst others, press stories on arnica,
ibuprofen and psoriasis  http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/hth/archive.asp
Document of the week featured amongst others The Chartered Society
Physiotherapy, Patient Information from the Consumers Association, and a
Cochrane Review of the efficiency of peer-review in scientific publishing
http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/weeklydoc/archive.asp
New in Clinical Evidence Raynaud's phenomenon (primary) is a new topic for
this month. A further 24 topics have been updated: acute anterior uveitis,
acute atrial fibrillation, anal fissure, bacterial conjunctivitis, chronic
suppurative otitis media, chronic tension-type headache, depression in
children and adolescents, diabetic retinopathy, epilepsy, fibroids,
genital herpes, glycaemic control in diabetes, low back pain and sciatica
(both acute and chronic), measles, Menière's disease, middle ear pain and
trauma during air travel, opportunistic infections and HIV, oropharyngeal
candidiasis, pre-eclampsia and hypertension, recurrent tonsillitis,
reducing pain in blood sampling in infants, tinnitus, and wrinkles.
http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/clinicalevidence

New Features of NeLH
Emergency Leads Toolkit.  The NeLH Emergency Care Specialist Library has
launched a toolkit including essential documents and evidence around
emergency healthcare modernisation.  www.nelh-ec.warwick.ac.uk/ECL_Toolkit/
Clinical Evidence Distribution.  NeLH has co-ordinated the distribution of
50,000 copies of version 8 of the paper version.  Every GP in England will
receive a copy of this important publication.
http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/clinicalevidence/faq.asp
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Development
NeLH is changing. The library will be re-launched in November to coincide
with the third anniversary of the NeLH launch. Portals and Virtual Branch
Libraries will be renamed Specialist Libraries and a new Primary Care
resource will be developed during 2003. Subject to successful negotiation
it is expected that a  new Basic Anatomy resource will be available.To
preview developments NeLH /lab has been created. This will show the NeLH
roadmap for the library and allow users to preview changes.
www.nelh.nhs.uk/lab

Update to Guidelines Finder A further update to the Guidelines Finder has
been uploaded. The Guidelines Finder now holds over 600 links to full-text
guidelines available on the web - including recently issued guidance on
bio-terrorism. A three year contract to maintain the Guidelines Finder has
been awarded recently to Sheffield Evidence for Effectiveness and
Knowledge (SEEK). www.nelh.nhs.uk/guidelinesfinder

Resource Management System for Specialist Libraries Heart Disease,
Musculoskeletal Diseases, Health management and Child Health are currently
prototyping a new resource management system for NeLH which will allow
NeLH to migrate resources to a common information environment. As well as
allowing Specialist Libraries to share content and incorporate central
resources, the RMS will be able NeLH to provide enhanced metadata
searching and present its content to other partners through "web services"
protocols.

Planned

Collaboration with Public Health Observatories NeLH has been discussing
interoperability with Eastern Region PHO to agree a Memorandum of Intent
which will ensure that the two services will be able to share information
content.
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Communications
Activity and Feedback

NeLH achieves record number of users The site was accessed from 91,000
access points in February.  Improved statistical reporting of usage will
enable NeLH to profile and target its user more effectively in the future,
and obtain precise usage figures. The site also recorded 446,000 page
views in February.

Promotional & Training Activities

Launch of the “Focus on…” Campaign. New literature with the title “Focus
on the best available evidence” has been produced to promote the library
including postcards, business cards, pencils and posters
www.nelh.nhs.uk/publicity

A Mini Conference for NHS library staff was held on 10 March. Slides,
outcomes and evaluation can be found at
www.nelh.nhs.uk/librarian/networking_conf.asp.

The third FOLIO course on evidence-based librarianship has 400 signed up
to it worldwide. This final element follows the successful courses
on 'Evaluating your Service' and 'Evidence Based Librarianship.
Registration has been extended and places are still available, however,
the course start will be delayed due to sickness.
www.nelh.nhs.uk/librarian/folioebl.asp

Planned

Nationwide “master classes” for digital library trainers are being planned
for the spring and autumn. Look out for details at
www.nelh.nhs.uk/librarian
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Procuring the Library
Final elements of procurement – the components of the NeLH Health
Information Environment, the technical infrastructure of the library, are
in the process of being decided upon following the recent OJEC notice.
Negotiation to agree contract terms with the shortlisted suppliers will
quickly be undertaken.

NeLH FBC – the full business case is presently being completed with actual
figures replacing estimated ones. The FBC is to be submitted for approval
in March.

Contingency arrangements – are largely now in place to ensure a continued
NeLH service migrating in an orderly fashion to any new suppliers and new
contracts.
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Archives of NeLH Updates together with newsletters of Specialist Libraries
are available at www.nelh.nhs.uk/update.