COVID-19 Knowledge Hub

Vaccine resources

• Covid-19 vaccines (UpToDate)
• COVID-19: Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) (UpToDate)
• COVID-19: the green book, chapter 14a - Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination information for public health professionals. (Public Health England)
• COVID-19 rapid guideline: vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT). (NICE Guideline NG200)

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Evidence searches

The librarians can undertake COVID-19 evidence / literature searches for East Cheshire NHS Trust staff. Complete the online form to let us know the details, or send us an email.

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Evidence Updates

Special Covid editions of our bulletins and updates are available.

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Long COVID special

Capturing learning from COVID-19

Lots of changes have been made to ways of working in a very short space of time. We now need to evaluate and reflect on these changes to see what is worth keeping and what needs to stop in order to build the best 'new normal'. Various resources, tools and templates are available to help.

• After Action Review
• Capturing the impact of new ways of working for Allied Health Professionals arising from the COVID-19 response (Suzanne Rastrick)
• Capturing Learning from Your Organisation's COVID-19 Response (AQuA)​
• Understanding crisis-response measures

Video: RSM COVID-19 Series

UpToDate COVID-19 resources

Paediatric COVID-19 resources

Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service

Long COVID

• ​Long-Covid Research Alert (published each Wednesday buy the UK Health Security Agency. Click 'Keeping up to date' to locate it on the site.)
• Long COVID: the NHS plan for 2021/22 (June 2021)
• NHS plan for improving long covid services (NHS England, July 2022)
• Managing the long-term effects of COVID-19. NICE guideline [NG188]
• Physiotherapy guides for Long Covid rehabilitation
• COVID-19 complications (BMJ Best Practice)
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to clinical rehabilitation (Cochrane Special Collection)
• Recovering from COVID-19: Post viral-fatigue and conserving energy (Royal College of Occupational Therapists)

Useful Twitter feeds:

• ​https://x.com/sivanmanoj
• https://x.com/SteveHalpin9
• Trisha Greenhalgh

NHS staff resources

• MHRA has approved Evusheld for PRE-exposure prophylaxis
• NICE Guideline: Managing Covid-19
• Coronavirus - secondary care (NHS England)
• ​COVID-19 in children and the role of school settings in transmission (ECDC, 2021)
• COVID-19: Frailty scores and outcomes in older people (BGS, 2021)
• ​Gov.uk  - information on COVID-19, including assessment and management of suspected UK cases​  ::  Track coronavirus cases dashboard
• NHS England: COVID-19
• Coronavirus guidance for health professionals (Public Health England)
• Health Education England Coronavirus overview
• PPE guidance for NHS teams (Public Health England)
• PPE for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff (Cochrane systematic review)
• Guidance for clinical diagnostic laboratories
• RCOG: infection and pregnancy
• British Pain Society: COVID-19 resources
• ​Coronavirus (COVID-19) advice for social care (SCIE)
• Coronavirus e-learning (Health Education England eLfH)
• ​Resources from the Royal Colleges and other professional bodies on COVID-19
• COVID-19 e-learning resources for NHS staff
• COVID-19 guidance for NHS workforce leaders (NHS Employers)
• ​Nursing Standard COVID-19 Resources

Evidence

• NICE Evidence​
• Guide to Covid-19 Rapid Review Collections (UKHSA Knowledge and Library Services)
• ​Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service (Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine)
• Paediatric evidence summaries (Don't Forget The Bubbles)
• ​Global research on coronavirus disease COVID-19 (WHO)
• Cochrane special collection: Coronavirus (COVID-19): infection control and prevention measures
• Cochrane special collection: Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to acute and critical care
• ​​PubMed search strategy​​

NHS staff wellbeing resources

• ​Uplifting resources for the NHS from the NHS
• Free wellbeing apps and telephone support line (NHS)
• Support services for NHS staff - includes support to improve mental wellbeing, physical wellbeing, financial wellbeing and support for carers or people suffering from domestic abuse (NHS Employers)
• ​Coronavirus (COVID-19): support for wellbeing in the healthcare workforce (Cochrane)

General COVID-19 information

• Coronavirus COVID-19 (NHS)
• ​​Gov.uk - information for the general public
• Covid Recovery Commission (UK)
• ​​ZOE: COVID-19 Symptom Study (UK) - includes current infections for each local authority area.
• World Health Organization: Coronavirus disease (Covid-19)
• COVID-19 risk assessment methodology to inform international travel traffic light system
• Epidemic theory
• Covid-19: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
• Health Map - visual worldwide map of contagious diseases, including Covid-19
• Worldometer: Coronavirus
• Full Fact: Coronavirus fact checker (UK)
• ​Coronavirus facts game