- AMEDEO
- BMJ Evidence Updates
- CASH (Current Awareness Service for Health)
- Database Auto Alerts
- Department of Health Bulletins
- DynaMed Weekly Updates
- Eyes on Evidence
- Horizon Scanning Bulletins
- Journals - electronic tables of contents
- JournalTOCs - latest tables of contents
- Medscape - comprehensive current awareness service
- Open University - iKnow
- RSS Feeds
- UHSM Academy Library e-newsletter
AMEDEO
AMEDEO offers weekly updates from journal subsets of interest. The free facility has a user friendly website which can be used to set up alerts. Using AMEDEO you can:
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1. Select a medical area, select your favourite medical journals and submit the request form to receive the weekly emails.
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2. Consult the weekly literature overviews for additional topics, i.e. HIV Infection, Ischemic Heart Disease, Breast Cancer (for a complete overview, please refer to the AMEDEO homepage).
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3. Access My Amedeo to change your journal selection or subscribe to additional topics.
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4. Check the Multidisciplinary Journal Club for a selection of outstanding articles.
BMJ Evidence Updates
BMJ Evidence updates is a free email alerting service tailored to personal clinical interests which notifies you of important new research about the diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, aetiology and economics of medical conditions. All citations (from over 120 premier clinical journals) are pre-rated for quality by research staff, then rated for clinical relevance and interest by at least 3 members of a worldwide panel of practicing physicians.
For more information on BMJ Evidence and to register, click here.
CASH (Current Awareness Service for Health)
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. CASH produces the following bulletins:
Database auto alerts
Be regularly alerted by email each time your search is run on a database such as Medline, CINAHL, Embase or NHS Evidence. Either we can do the search and set up the alert for you, or we can show you how to do it yourself. Please contact us for further information.
Department of Health Bulletins
The Week Bulletin (for Chief Execs and their teams)
Published every Thursday by the DH, The Week provides need-to-know news, consultations and events for chief executives and their teams. It provides links to more information and resources, highlighting areas for action. To access the current The Week and its archives, click here.
The Month Bulletin (for NHS leadership communities)
An agenda-setting monthly update of key messages from NHS Chief Executive David Nicholson and the NHS leadership team to share with staff, teams and organisations. To access the current The Month and its archives, click here.
Medical Directors' Bulletin
Monthly bulletins to update and inform medical directors on the latest announcements and documents from DH. Click here to access.
Chief Nursing Officer Bulletin
Aims to provide updated information about relevant issues in the NHS which will be of specific interest to nurses, midwives and health visitors. Click here to access.
Allied Health Professionals Bulletin
A bulletin for all staff in the allied health professions addressing matters related to the organisation and delivery of AHP services. Click here to access.
National Cancer Programme Bulletin
Aims to provide updated information about relevant policy and implementation news for the National Cancer Programme which will be of specific interest to NHS staff involved in cancer related projects. Click here to access.
DynaMed Weekly Updates
DynaMed Weekly Updates are prepared by the clinician members of the DynaMed Editorial Team and comprise of one to five articles which are deemed to be most likely to change clinical practice.
To see examples of previous newsletters and to subscribe to receive future newsletters, click here.
Eyes on Evidence
Eyes on Evidence is a monthly bulletin produced by NHS Evidence. It covers major new evidence as it emerges, highlighting areas that could signal a change in clinical practice. Click here to access.
Please contact the Academy Library if you would like to receive Eyes on Evidence every month.
Horizon Scanning Bulletins
Horizon Scanning Bulletins are published monthly and cover a range of key subject areas with the purpose of identifying best practice, innovations and future risk factors. Current titles are:
Journals - electronic tables of contents
You can regularly receive by e-mail, the latest table of contents from your favourite journals.Click here to list the journals you would like.
JournalTOCs
JournalTOCs gives you free access to the latest tables of contents (TOCs) from over 18000 journals and alerts you when new issues of your followed journals are published.
Medscape
Medscape is a comprehensive current awareness service providing a large range of free focused electronic newsletters according to specialty, relating to news, case studies, conferences and the best evidence. Requires free registration.
Open University - iKnow
iKnow offers a variety of free resources aimed at helping you to find and manage information effectively at work including useful tips and techniques for keeping up to date with the latest information. To access iKnow,click here.
RSS news feeds
Our home page lists a number of clinical and non-clinical specialities, each of which links to a collection of quality websites reporting the very latest news concerning that speciality.
If your speciality does not appear in the list, please contact us.
UHSM Academy Library e-newsletter
Keep up to date with the latest library news via our blog. You can subscribe to receive updates to the blog by clicking on the link within the blog. You also have the opportunity to comment on anything we post. Click here to access.
