Bank Holiday Closure

We will be closed for the Bank Holiday on Monday 25th May.

Usual 24/7 access arrangements apply.

THE EXPLORER

The latest edition of the library newsletter, The Explorer, is now available on our website.

http://www.mtw.nhs.uk/library-and-information-services/the-explorer.asp

Annual Evidence Update - Epilepsy

Annual Evidence Update on Epilepsy (NHS Evidence – neurological conditions)
www.library.nhs.uk/neurological

The NHS Evidence: Neurological Conditions specialist collection is launching its second Annual Evidence Update on Epilepsy on Monday 18th May, to coincide with National Epilepsy Awareness Week.

The Project Team has carried out a systematic literature search on epilepsy to identify all high level evidence published since the date of the last Epilepsy Annual Evidence Update in 2007, including guidelines, systematic reviews, health technology assessments and economic evaluations. Leading epilepsy experts from around the UK have read and appraised these for their validity and relevance to the busy clinician. A list of the papers deemed worthy of inclusion, along with expert commentaries by our reviewers, will be freely available on the site from 18th May. This year we have also begun to identify uncertainties in research to contribute to the UK DUETs project (see www.library.nhs.uk/duets for more details).

BREAKING NEWS

If you don’t have time to catch the news when you’re rushing to work, if you would like to read the background to a headline or if you wish to relax with the feature pages then pay a visit to your nearest on site library.

A daily newspaper, The Guardian, is now available at Pembury Hospital library, Woodlands House, from Mondays to Fridays for our users. It is kept in the library computer room.

At Kent & Sussex Hospital library you can read The Independent and at Maidstone Hospital library The Times is available.

Read all about it!

Evidence Update: Cystic Fibrosis

Annual Evidence Update on Cystic Fibrosis

www.library.nhs.uk/respiratory and www.library.nhs.uk/geneticconditions

The respiratory and genetic conditions specialist collections will present the first annual evidence update for Cystic Fibrosis (CF). It will publish details of the latest evidence in CF, with a number of invited commentaries highlighting the key developments in recent years.

SWINE FLU

Get the latest, reliable information from:

WoltersKluwer Health/Ovid: http://www.ovid.com/site/pdf/swine_flu_bibliography.pdf

The Government: http://www.direct.gov.uk/

The World Health Orgnaisation: http://www.who.int/en/

The BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8020125.stm

The NHS: http://www.nhs.uk/news/2009/04April/Pages/Swineflulatest.aspx

Leicester University digest on this outbreak plus Avian Flu: https://web.nhs.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=b8c3fcb09c6c4d45882a73be660637eb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.le.ac.uk%2flibrary%2fclinical%2finfluenza%2findex.html


And check what the daily national papers are reporting:
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/webres/londonnatnews/index.html

Annual Evidence Update: ASTHMA

Annual Evidence Update on CAM for Asthma

(NHS Evidence – complementary and alternative medicine)

www.library.nhs.uk/cam
The 2009 Annual Evidence Update on CAM for Asthma aims to identify, organise and present the latest information on this topic. We have carried out a comprehensive search of a number of databases and used strict selection criteria for the identified studies, in order to base the annual update on the best current evidence available. This update will include a list of relevant systematic reviews published between March 2008 and March 2009 and an expert commentary.

Bank Holiday Closure

We will be closed for the May Bank Holiday on Monday 4th May.

Usual 24/7 access arangements apply.