Hello
Apologies for cross posting.
Please find below the latest NeLH newsletter - you can now sign up to receive the latest newsletter by email at www.nelh.nhs.uk/update. As I send the newsletter to several lists, some people receive multiple copies - rather than continue to fill people's mailboxes with multiple copies, I'll continue to send to lis-medical, lis-nursing and nelh discussion lists and suggest that anyone not already on those lists sign up with us. Hope this works better for you!
Regards,
Alison
NeLH.nhs.uk/update/May03
The Monthly Newsletter of the National electronic Library for Health Issue 9
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Focus The last year has been an important one for the library-completing its pilot phase, high levels of use and re-use, setting up open national licences for The Cochrane Library and Clinical Evidence, developing "value added services" like the NSF Zones, Guidelines Finder and Hitting the Headlines together with joint working with the Workforce Development Confederations to promote access to databases and full text journals. A full review of the year can be found in the annual review.
NeLH will shortly be announcing the strategy for 2003-2006.
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Content
Existing Featured Content
Hitting the Headlines has featured, amongst others, stories on the contraceptive pill and cervical cancer, vaccine for asthma, and screening for breast cancer www.nelh.nhs.uk/hth
Document of the week has featured, amongst others, a Radio 4 programme on brain surgery, a Cochrane Review on acne, and the DOH report on NHS Direct www.nelh.nhs.uk/weeklydoc
Cochrane Library Version 2003 - Issue 2
The new version of Cochrane Library features 79 new reviews, including Drugs for the prevention of lung cancer, Paracetamol for Ostoearthritis, and Ibuprofen for the treatment of Alzheimer's.
Cochrane Gems every month a Cochrane review is featured, the latest is "The Scope and impact of financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research". www.nelh.nhs.uk/cochrane_gems/
New in Clinical Evidence.The latest edition of Clinical Evidence features 24 new or updated topics, such as Raynaud's Phenomena, Acute Atrial Fibrillation and Meniere's Disease. www.nelh.nhs.uk/clinicalevidence
The Hot Topic for NeLH: Health Management Library is Foundation Hospitals and six new management briefings have been completed NSF Older People Managing for Excellence HR in the NHS Plan Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 Care Group Work Force Teams Knowledge Management Suitable for all staff who need quick and accurate digests, there are forty six in total with five having been recently updated. www.nelh.nhs.uk/management
NeLH Emergency care features SARS and UK Ambulance and Air Ambulance Services
Bandolier focuses on Calculating and using NNT's and includes explanation and examples
Together with Prognostic Prediction: the right treatment for the right patient
New Features of NeLH
Toolbar The NeLH toolbar allows users to quickly go to the resource of their choice or to search twenty evidence based resources. Maintained centrally by the NeLH team the bar can be embedded into any web page allowing local knowledge sources to be combined with national. www.nelh.nhs.uk/webmaster has working examples.
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Development
NeLH Care Pathways and Protocols Library The current system will be migrated to the new NeLH Content Management System and a better interface provided to retrieve Care Pathways.
The Library will be re-focused around supporting the care pathways and protocols communities, with features to allow users to share pathways and protocols directly and a discussion area.
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Communications
Activity and Feedback
NeLH recorded over 100,000 unique users in April, and over 500,000 page views. NeLH is proving to be a durable and reliable resource for users, with just under 40% of users returning to use the site repeatedly (over 12% using it ten or more times in April alone).
Promotional & Training Activities
Congratulations to NHS Direct online www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk who were Award winners in the eEurope Ehealth awards held in Brussels. NeLH were also finalists in the competition to find the best IT applications in the union. www.e-europeawards.org
Master Class Training places are going fast with over a hundred trainers already signed up, however, there are a number of places left at some venues. NeLH will be launching an education pack at the conferences which will be available free to delegates. www.nelh.nhs.uk/dlnet
New Training and Promotional Materials A new fold out leaflet is now available. One side of the business card sized tool has key resources of NeLH listed in a search hierarchy suitable for a therapeutic question. The reverse has tips on developing a search plan. The handout is designed to be used in conjunction with the NeLH tour and can be used as a promotional item or training aide-memoir. www.nelh.nhs.uk/publicity
National seminar on open access publishing organised jointly by British Library, Biomed Central and the NHS www.nelh.nhs.uk/openarchive/
Presentations NeLH staff presented to Thames Valley health librarians, the Medical Library Association conference, North East Oxford PCT and Wolverhampton New Cross Hospital.
Calendar
Cochrane Library training days, there will be presentations on NeLH at the forthcoming days on Updating from the "Classic" interface to the "New Generation": 5 June (York), 11 July (London), 5 August (York), 8 August (London). To book a place, go to www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/cochlibbf.pdf.
Full text Journals Proquest are currently offering training on using their resources to trainers and librarians. The free 45 - 60 minute training delivers the audio part by phone while learners access the visual element using the Internet. The first set of sessions are now booked up, however, the intention is to deliver a further set. To register your interest email [log in to unmask] with the title Proquest Training Enquiry as the subject
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Procuring the Library
Full details of the progress and outcomes of the NeLH procurement projects so far can be viewed at www.nhsia.nhs.uk/nelh/pages/procure.asp
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Archives of NeLH Updates together with newsletters of Specialist Libraries are available at www.nelh.nhs.uk/update.
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