Thanks to all who replied to my original request, it is obvious that I am not alone in being asked for this service as several of you have asked me to post responses on the list.
In addition to Michelle's current awareness service from the National Prescribing Centre which she posted on the list earlier I also heard from others who provide the same service to their organisation by using:
RSS feeds (Absilon)
Tracking software linked to the What's New pages of the Royal Colleges.
One librarian also offered a targeted alerting service at cost price
I also had a response from the NLH Guidelines Finder which I found interesting. Summarised below - I will forward any e-mails if interested in their service
we have a rolling schedule of checking the various
guidelines publisher sites. A number of key websites are checked
daily for new guidelines, and these include DoH, NICE, SIGN. We
aim to add anything new on the day of website publication, or
failing that (for any reason such staff illness or absence), asap. The
other guideline publisher sites are checked monthly (on the basis
of dividing the month into four weeks and working through about 20
websites each week for new material) and new items are added as
they appear. This should mean that if one of the Royal Colleges
publishes a guideline, it should appear on the GF within 4 weeks,
at the latest. The 'Latest guidelines' section of the Guidelines
Finder homepage is updated once a month, generally after NICE
has published. And I alert other interested parties at this point of
the latest additions to the Guidelines Finder.
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Cox
Knowledge Services Manager
East Kent Hospitals Trust
Tel: 01227 864355
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