​Quality patient information is essential to enable people to better manage their health and wellbeing, and to make fully informed decisions about their treatment and care.  As the population increases, and the number of people living longer, with multiple long-term conditions grows the ‘health literacy’ of individuals becomes increasingly important.  Everyone needs to be able to find, evaluate and use reliable sources of health information. 
The Library can help you find suitable information resources for your patients, develop patient information leaflets and help you to develop your own information literacy skills.  We have a ‘Finding quality health information on the internet’ booklet which can be downloaded or a printed copy can be collected from the library. This includes:

• Guidance on finding and evaluating health information on the internet.
• Suggested quality, trusted health information websites.

​​For more information please email the Library or call 01625 661362.

UpToDate is now available to all staff and students at East Cheshire NHS Trust!
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What is it?
UpToDate®, an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource, is now available to all East Cheshire NHS Trust staff and students.
UpToDate includes:

• Evidence-based medical content that is researched, created, and continually updated by over 6,700 leading physicians
• Summaries and treatment recommendations for over 11,000 topics in 25 specialties
• “Practice Changing UpDates” highlighting critical research that changes how you treat patients today
• “What’s New” summaries of important new findings by specialty
• Over 465,500 references, with links to PubMed and the full-text articles where our subscriptions permit
• Medical calculators
• Patient information covering over 1,500 topics
• A select drug database of more than 6,000 unique drug entries (in partnership with Lexicomp®) including adult, pediatric, and international drugs and a drug interactions tool that provides graded adverse reaction information between drug-to-drug and drug-to-herb interactions.

Who is it for?
We are pleased to be able to provide access to UpToDate for ALL our staff and students as part of our continuous effort to encourage evidence based decision making and improving patient care.

How can I access it?
You can access it at https://www.uptodate.com/login using the OpenAthens Log In option (if you don’t have an Athens account you can register here  on the library website). We hope to be able to offer password free access from within the Trust very soon…
Short video tutorials to help you get started with UpToDate can be found on the UpToDate website at www.uptodate.com/home/help-demo.


​​For more information please email the Library or call 01625 661362.

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We are pleased to welcome Holly Cook, our new Clinical Outreach Librarian, to the library team.  Holly has worked as a professional librarian in a variety of libraries.  Holly will be providing library services, training and current awareness services to staff based at Macclesfield District General Hospital.  She is looking forward to getting to know Trust staff and enabling their use of the evidence and library services.  You can contact Holly on ext 3398 or by email holly.cook3@nhs.net.

​When an essential book or journal article is not held by the library, we try our best to obtain it for you through our Inter-Library Loan (ILL) system. We request items on your behalf from other libraries in the North West and further afield, including The British Library.
Why is it useful?

• The £1 per item fee (BL fee considerably higher) is a highly reduced cost. If you were to obtain the book or article alone you would be paying a significantly higher price.
• The library can save you time by searching for the book or article on your behalf.
• The speed at which we can obtain the article/book is faster than if we were to order from another supplier. Typically, articles take between 1-2 working days to arrive and books up to 5 working days.

How do I use it? 
You can request an Inter-library loan using the online form found on our website www.eastcheshirenhslibrary.net or visiting the library directly. 

What are they?
BMJ Learning offers high-quality continuing medical education for doctors and other healthcare professionals. It features hundreds of accredited, peer-reviewed learning modules in text, video, and audio formats.
BMJ Case Reports is an important educational resource offering a high volume of cases in all disciplines so that healthcare professionals, researchers and others can easily find clinically important information on common and rare conditions. All articles are peer reviewed and copy edited before publication. BMJ Case Reports is not an edition or supplement of the BMJ
 
Why are they useful?
They are important for anyone interested in continuing professional development (CPD) and other educational aims. BMJ Learning contains a large amount of free educational resources; BMJ Case Reports allows professionals to keep up to date with illnesses and treatments in their fields.
 
How do I use them?
You need an East Cheshire NHS Athens account (free to set up at https://openathens.nice.org.uk) to access both resources
Access BMJ learning here: http://learning.bmj.com/learning/home.html and BMJ Case Reports here: http://casereports.bmj.com/

To find out more or to book a training session, please contact:
Steve Collman, Outreach Librarian on 01625 66 1547 http://www.eastcheshirenhslibrary.net/outreach.html
Or Library & Knowledge Services: 01625 66 1362