NHS Evidence – Commissioning

NHS Evidence – Commissioning is the specialist collection put together by the King’s Fund for NHS Evidence which aims to provide timely and efficient access to high quality information resources for those involved in commissioning for health.

The specialist collection aims to include the best available evidence, alongside examples of best practice, policy and data to support World Class Commissioning.

Users can subscribe to an RSS Feed which will keep them updated with all the most up to date content on NHS Evidence – Commissioning. The RSS Feed is available here.

For more information, please contact the library

Freedom of Information Journal – February 2010

NHS Western Cheshire and Community Care Western Cheshire staff can access the latest issue of the Freedom of Information Journal through the Trust’s extranet page.

This issue contains news about Freedom of Information exemptions, Commercial Confidentiality and the reorganisation of the Information Tribunal, alongside other Freedom of Information news.

Freedom of Information Journal can be accessed here

NHS Institute Newsletter – January 2010

The Institute for Innovation and Improvement’s January newsletter has just been released. It contains news on a number of services available to help NHS staff with the quality and productivity challenges which they are faced with. This includes webex training on Better Care, Better Values and the Primary Care Trigger Tool.

The Newsletter is available here.

NHS Evidence Specialist Collections: February Annual Evidence Updates

NHS Evidence Specialist Collections are web based collections containing clinical and non-clinical information on the major health priority areas. The Evidence Updates aim to highlight the best current evidence for selected healthcare topics. The Evidence Updates are issued annually, and contain good quality evidence that has been published in the last 12 months, plus  links to guidelines, primary and secondary research.

The following Evidence Updates are scheduled to be published in February:

1 February

Annual Evidence Update on urinary incontinence (NHS Evidence – kidney diseases; NHS Evidence – women’s health)

www.library.nhs.uk/womenshealth

www.library.nhs.uk/kidney

8 February

Annual Evidence Update on tinnitus (NHS Evidence – ENT and audiology)

www.library.nhs.uk/ent

22 February

Annual Evidence Update on chest pain (NHS Evidence – cardiovascular)

www.library.nhs.uk/cardiovascular

Alcohol Horizon Scanning Bulletin

A new horizon scanning bulletin has been launched with a focus on alcohol.

The aim of the horizon scanning project is to bring together best practice, innovation and future risks to support the commissioning process and service redesign.

The alcohol horizon scanning bulletin can be accessed here, or subscribe to receive the bulletin by email here.

The horizon scanning project covers a number of topics including obesity, stroke, cancer and emotional health and wellbeing. A complete list of horizon scanning topics is available here.

NHS Institute Alert: Better research, better results

The NHS Institute have published their January 2010 bulletin, which contains information on all of the content which has recently been made available on the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement’s website.

The bulletin contains links to documents on change management, commissioning, improvement, innovation, knowledge improvement and research, leadership, patient experience and patient safety.

The bulletin can be accessed by following this link

Library Newsletter – December 2009

The library’s Christmas newsletter contains updates on Map of Medicine, the new Quality and Productivity Specialist Collection, Annual Evidence Updates and requesting help with a literature search from the library.

The newsletter can be accessed here

New NHS Evidence Specialist Collection – Quality and Productivity

NHS Evidence has launched a new Specialist Collection – Quality and Productivity – which aims to be the central resource of evidence on how to improve quality and productivity in the NHS. Evidence is organised around care pathways.

The collection is being built by contributions from across the NHS and includes examples of innovative practices that can be shared with all staff. The examples of improvements range from one-off staudies in single organisations to robustly tested large scale changes that have been replicated in multiple organisations and have had results published in academic journals.

The Quality and Productivity Specialist Collection can be accessed here

The Commissioner

The Commissioner, published by the North West Primary Care Librarians Group to keep you up to date with developments in Commisioning, has just been published.

This month’s bulletin features links to recently published documents on The Healthy Child Programme, 18 week waiting times, top tips for commissioners and practioners, and direct payments for health care.

The latest edition of the Commissioner Bulletin can be accessed here.

New England Journal of Medicine on YouTube

New England Journal of Medicine has established a YouTube channel, where they will be posting videos including Perspective Roundtables, procedural and clinical videos. Several videos are already available on the site, and more will be made available throughout December.

The NEJM YouTube Channel can be accessed here