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The library has a variety of ways to help you to keep up-to-date in your areas of interest, clinical and non-clinical.
We also have a daily bulletin on ‘health management news’, a monthly ‘Making People Count’ HR bulletin, monthly 'Equality & Diversity' bulletin and ad hoc ‘Covid19’ bulletins. You can now access these by simply scanning the QR code relevant to bulletins of interest. These are available on the library noticeboards in the canteen corridor and the Undercroft (and are also on display in the library). Ask for more information or to sign up! Contact us for more information: Email: ecn-tr.StaffLibrary@nhs.net Phone: 01625 661362
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October is Health Literacy Month. Health literacy is the ability to access, understand, appraise and use health information to make health-related decisions. In the UK, we know from research by Gill Rowlands that 43% of adults struggle with text-based health information; rising to 61% if the health information includes numbers as well as text. In Cheshire East this is estimated to be 35% for text-based information, rising to 54% for information with text and numbers. NHS staff need to be aware of health literacy issues to support effective access to information. The Library & Knowledge Service have resources and toolkits you can use to improve your communication skills and awareness of health literacy issues. Check out the Health Literacy Knowledge Hub on the library website.
On Monday 19th October 12:30-1:15pm HEE and BMJ are jointly delivering a free lunch time webinar for Health Literacy Month 2020 which will highlight some of the health literacy challenges that lead to poor outcomes. It will also demonstrate ways that clinicians can use BMJ Best Practice to support shared decision-making and informed consent. Sign up here: https://healtheducationyh.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/health-literacy-and-patient-information-online-booking and you will be sent a MS Teams invite a few days before the event. Contact us for more information: Email: ecn-tr.StaffLibrary@nhs.net Phone: 01625 661362 The Library & Knowledge Service would like to welcome all the new doctors who joined the Trust in August. As part of the support offered to you while you are here, you will have access to a variety of high quality, evidence based resources. These include:
UpToDate UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored, clinical decision support tool. It aims to synthesise all the evidence on any clinical topic and is literally ‘up to date’ to within a month of the latest research published. To access for the first time, do so via the windows menu on a Trust PC, this will give you access without a username and password. Once in, register for your own account so you can use it via an app or from home. BMJ Best Practice BMJ Best Practice is also a Clinical Decision Support tool, although without the coverage provided by UpToDate. The information is presented differently and some people prefer it. You can login with your Athens credentials (use your email address and your Athens password) – all links to our resources can be found here. Knowledge Hubs If you don’t know where to start or you just want to browse, our Knowledge Hubs are great. All the resources (journals, apps, websites, e-learning) relating to your clinical speciality or staff group, in one place. KnowledgeShare Sign up to KnowledgeShare and get abstracts emailed to you every 2 weeks. The more specific you can be, the more targeted your alerts. The emails contain links to relevant high level evidence – articles, reports, reviews – so you won’t be inundated with primary research articles. Sign up here. Clinical Librarian Services Need evidence but don’t have time to look? Ask the library to do an evidence/literature search. Please say whether it is for a clinical audit, a presentation or patient care as this will determine the level of search we perform. Do say if your search is urgent and we’ll try and get something to you within 24 hours (or ASAP). Request a search using this form or by emailing holly.cook3@nhs.net Bulletins and Updates The Library produces a variety of bulletins and updates. The bulletins are monthly links to commercially published, high level evidence briefings and the Updates are a selection of primary research abstracts (about 50) and are published twice yearly. Contact the library for more information: Email: ecn-tr.StaffLibrary@nhs.net Tel: 01625 661362 6th July - 25th September 2020
Research shows that there are huge benefits to reading regularly – it can ease stress and anxiety, improves mood, boosts memory, improves vocabulary and enhances study skills – with that in mind we are happy to announce that the popular Summer Six Book Reading Challenge is back in the Library from July to September. Just read 6 fiction, quick reads, wellbeing or health stories from the library’s collections between Monday 6th July and Friday 25th September. There are small gifts available after you’ve read 2, 4 and 6 books and everyone who completes the challenge of reading 6 books will be entered into a prize draw. To join the challenge just call into the library and register using one of the Summer Six Book Challenge leaflets. If you’re not based at the MDGH site or are working from home and are unable to visit the library then please join the challenge by telling us about the books you are reading at home. Just email the library at ecn-tr.stafflibrary@nhs.net with details of the books when you’ve read them and provide a short review and /or recommendation. We will then complete your registration leaflet and keep your gifts for when you are able to visit the library. Contact the library for more information. Email: ecn-tr.StaffLibrary@nhs.net Evidence-based practice is the “integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values.” It means that when health professionals make a treatment decision with their patient, they base it on their clinical expertise, the preferences of the patient, and the best available evidence.
We apply the same principles when we choose a new car, a restaurant at which to dine, or film to watch at the cinema. To find out whether they are good or not, we read restaurant reviews, watch specialist car programmes, ask friends, and refer to past experience. In healthcare, evidence means ‘knowledge derived from research’. This focuses on an approach to evidence which aims to ensure that information:
Research, Rapid Reviews and Case Studies on COVID19 are being published every day and are readily available if you know how to search for them. If you would like us to search for you, please do ask Holly (holly.cook3@nhs.net) for an evidence/literature search and we’ll turn it around as quickly as possible. Brun, C. D., 2013. Finding the Evidence. The Information Standard. Contact the library for more information on these resources. Email: ecn-tr.StaffLibrary@nhs.net The Library and Knowledge Service in New Alderley House have an extensive section of wellbeing books and resources to support staff through this unprecedented situation with COVID-19 and for when life and work returns to normal.
Contact the library for more information on these resources. Email: ecn-tr.StaffLibrary@nhs.net During the current pandemic we are operating a virtual library service - all our services and resources can be managed remotely. Please email us if you have any queries about library services, resources, evidence search requests, inter-library requests, joining the library, or anything else.
Email: ecn-tr.StaffLibrary@nhs.net The physical library space is still available for East Cheshire NHS Trust staff to use. PCs, study space and book issue/returns are all available - swipe in with your Trust staff ID badge. Conference calling and virtual meetings are becoming more commonplace at work, saving time and money by being able to meet people without having to travel. The library has webcams, headsets and microphones available to borrow to make conference calling even easier, which are compatible with Microsoft Teams, Skype and Webex. For more information on how to borrow and use them, contact the library! Tel: 01625 661362 Email: ecn-tr.StaffLibrary@nhs.net  We have extended our non-print resources with the introduction of educational games including The Care Certificate, Dysphagia, Stress, Pressure Ulcers and more.
We also have Lego Serious Play which can be used to facilitate group discussion, knowledge sharing, problem solving, team building etc. Our new, Virtual Reality headset can be used as an introduction to VR and to understand the wider possibilities. We also have conference call kits. All of these resources can be borrowed from the library to support staff training and development and library staff are able to act as facilitators. Contact the library for more information on these resources or to discuss how we can support you. Tel: 01625 661362 Email: ecn-tr.StaffLibrary@nhs.net When we search for information on the internet, we enter a search command in the form of keywords and it provides some results. As search engines have become more sophisticated (using semantic search, paid for rankings and previous browsing history) what we retrieve isn’t always what we have asked for. The really effective search engines like Google, make your results appear very relevant and for most of our search needs what is provided is good enough so we don’t question them.
However, when we are searching for clinical evidence do we really want to use such algorithms to presuppose what we want? Or worse, rank ‘sponsored posts’ higher up the results list? In the Library, we don’t rely on these types of search when looking for clinical evidence. A Clinical Librarian will structure a search to ensure that what is requested is what is retrieved. Being able to search a database which is free from advertising or other annoying algorithms ensures that you maintain control over your own information retrieval. Serendipity and discovery are useful functions of search but sometimes we just need to find precisely, the best evidence to answer a clinical question. If you would like to learn how to structure a search using medical databases please contact Holly in the library on: holly.cook3@nhs.net |
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