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Dear list, I am pleased to announce that CASH (the Current Awareness Service for Health) has developed a Netvibes Portal, complete with email alerts for each of the newsfeeds and current awareness bulletins. The portal is freely available and can be accessed using the following URL: http://www.netvibes.com/keeping-up-to-date#Home. The aim of the portal is to enable users to easily access the content of the CASH Database without needing to subscribe to it as a newsfeed. Users also have the option to subscribe to up to 5 of the newsfeeds as a daily email alert. The portal also enables users to subscribe to their favourite current awareness bulletins on TIN. Subscribers receive an email alert whenever a new issue of the bulletin becomes available. Again, there is a limit of 5 email alerts per user, including those for the newsfeeds. The number of bulletins on TIN has grown substantially over the last six months. There are now over 30 bulletins on a range of specialist topic areas across Primary Care, Secondary Care and Mental Health. To find out more about the bulletins and to view the full bulletin menu, please visit the TIN website: http://www.tin.nhs.uk/welcome/keeping-up-to-date/bulletin-menu/. More information about CASH CASH aims to keep health professionals up-to-date with new developments for the benefit of patient care and improved decision making. It is a collaborative service provided by librarians from around England who monitor and capture content from across 3 broad sectors - Primary Care, Secondary Care and Mental Health. The content is added to the central CASH database<http://www.tin.nhs.uk/welcome/keeping-up-to-date/search-database> and is made available to search or be streamed as a newsfeed<http://www.tin.nhs.uk/welcome/keeping-up-to-date/rss-newsfeed-menu>, using RSS technology. The newsfeeds are also available to subscribe to as a daily email alert via the CASH Portal<http://www.netvibes.com/keeping-up-to-date#Home>. Help & support<http://www.tin.nhs.uk/welcome/keeping-up-to-date/help-and-support> is available from a dedicated Service Officer. The service itself is run by a Management Board<http://www.tin.nhs.uk/welcome/keeping-up-to-date/about-cash/management-board> - a team of library managers and information professionals with years of experience in delivering current awareness services. More information on how to get involved with CASH is available on the Contributors' Pages<http://www.tin.nhs.uk/welcome/keeping-up-to-date/contributors-pages/>. Alternatively, please feel free to contact me directly. Best wishes, Kath Kath Williams Service Officer - Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust New phone number: 01246 733232 Address: The Shrubberies, 46 Newbold Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire S41 7PL Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust P Save Paper - Do you really need to print this e-mail? Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust provides specialist health services at home, in the community and in hospitals. We aim to be the best provider of local healthcare and to be a great place to work. Visit us at www.dchs.nhs.uk DISCLAIMER - This email and any file transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are those of the author and do not represent the views of Derbyshire Community Health Services, unless otherwise explicitly stated. The information contained in this email may be subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Unless the information is legally exempt from disclosure, the confidentiality of this email cannot be guaranteed. Derbyshire Community Health Services is an NHS Organisation.