- AMEDEO
- BMJ Evidence Updates
- CASH (Current Awareness Service for Health)
- Database Auto Alerts
- Department of Health Bulletins
- ERC Library Blog
- Horizon Scanning Bulletins
- Journals - electronic tables of contents
- Medscape - comprehensive current awareness service
- Open University - iKnow
- RSS Feeds
- Zetoc Alerts
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.
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:
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.
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.
ERC Library Blog
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.
Horizon Scanning Bulletins
These updates are published monthly by North West PCT Librarians. Their intention is to support the commissioning process. 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.
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.
Zetoc Alerts
Zetoc is a database containing the contents pages of around 20,00 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published each year. Enables you to create a personalised email alerting service consisting of relevant new articles’ contents pages and articles containing particular author names or title words. NHS Athens required. To set up a Zetoc alert, click here.
