• Updated Child Health Promotion Programme
• Towards World Class Commissioning Competency
• Education Commissioning Briefing
• National Dementia Strategy
• More strategic, timely information needed in primary healthcare
• Putting you in the picture
• Choice at referral
• Refocusing the care programme approach: Policy and positive practice guidance
• National Primary Care Research & Development Centre: Practice Based Commissioning
• Other documents and conferences

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The Commissioner Volume 3 Issue 3 from the North West Primary Care Librarian’s Group was published today with its podcast ( Standard Podcasts [6:22m]) contents are:

• PBC: Personalise your Improvement with the No Delays Achiever

• Dental Commissioning and Contract Monitoring - Tendering, Procurement & Contracting

• Evaluation of One-Stop Shop (Oss) Models of Sexual Health Provision

• Improving Access to Psychological Therapies implementation plan

• National Infarct Angioplasty Project (NIAP) interim report

• Practice-based commissioning : tips for preparing and pitching a proposal

• Strategic commissioning for older people

• Apply for Beacon Status

• Other documents and conferences

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A few new pages adorn this blog as of today. Fade Feeds is a list of the key RSS feeds Fade as a library creates as a result of the Another 15 … Minutes Health News from Fade piece of Current Awareness (so if you want to know what the mass media are saying about a particular topic give these a go), the feeds from E-journals we subscribe to and in time will include the feeds we generate for people from Pubmed.

To make the whole business of locating e-journals that Fade subscribe to a whole bunch easier, we’ve added the Fade E-Journals Page.

For fun we’ve also published the Guest Faders page, which will list the sort of stupid question we ask about ourselves in Who’s Who of people we think of as honourary Faders! We will of course include all of our library monitors from Regatta Place along with cult health library people from the North West.

With the new journals available from  Ingenta online, we  thought it would be useful to share with you the secret of  where to type in your Athen’s password if you go there direct!  On the right hand side of the screen you’ll see the login. The Athens login link is hidden below the Go button.

Likewise if the journal you are trying to use is stubborn and tries to claim your hard earned money from you and you know that the Fade Library subscribe to it and you have an Athens password from us, use this link to remind it you have legitimate access.

While you’re on Ingenta, check out the RSS Feed options for the journals.  As ever we’re excited about that kind of thing but do realise that not everyone else is.  Don’t know anything about RSS, check out our post on ‘What is this RSS Thing?’

Remember you can always ask us for some training if you work in Liverpool PCT in how to use the electronic resources available to you to best effect.  Just fill in the contact form below and we’ll arrange a training session.

Fade has recently relaunched our podcasts of ‘Another 15 Minutes…Health News from the Fade Library’ using the Podbean service. The service in its free format offers 100Mb of storage for the podcasts that you wish to publish and uses WordPress as a content management system to publish them. The podcast blogs created have integrated streaming players in addition to the feeds for podcast dissemination. For cheap and chearful podcast hosting it’s a good service and the paid for options seem affordable too.

If you want to know how podcasts work, or how to make best use of electronic resources and you work for Liverpool PCT, contact us using the form below.

Sounds Healthy - Internet Radio for the 3rd Healthcare Revolution, a podcasting service bringing evidence based health information to you in an audio format. Voiced by Sir Muir Grey and extremely well produced - it’s definitely worth a listen.  With audio based e-learning and glossary it’s mightily impressive.

Mind you as the corner of the library with unimpeachably indie tastes, I could have done without the Queen on the about cast!

It’s always useful to remember that Google isn’t the only search engine on the block.  There are loads of them out  there and you should always use more than one for an internet search.  When we come across one we’ve not used before and like the look of we’ll let you know.  MedWorm is a search engine and RSS provider service. It collects updates from over 4500 authoritative data sources (growing each day) via RSS feeds. From the data collected, MedWorm provides new outgoing RSS feeds on various medical categories that you can subscribe to, via the free MedWorm online service, or another RSS reader of your choice like MyUpdate on NLH. The advantage of haveing a search tool using RSS is the speed of update and the ability to create a feed from a search makes this an interesting tool.

If you don’t know what RSS is you can check out the description on MedWorm itself or our post on ‘What is this RSS Thing?’. Alternatively if you work in Liverpool PCT you can ask on of the library staff to train you in the use of RSS to help you stay up-to-date.

If you want some training, give the library a yell using the contact form below.

….and if you’re a librarian don’t forget to check out LibWorm!

The Commissioner 2(11) (link to this months contents) has just been published. You can sign up for the e-mail alert on its blog, contact Katherine Bell its editor to get a mail of the pdf version or just subscribe to its RSS feed using the icon below.

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This month’s contents are:

• Diabetes in the NHS: Commissioning and providing specialist services
• NHS Stop Smoking Services
• Commissioning for Patient Pathways
• Commissioning specialist adult learning disability health services
• Care Outside Hospital
• Delivering the 18 week patient pathway
• Eye care
• Commissioning Roadmap
• Facing the Future
• Report of the High Level Group (HLG) on Clinical Effectiveness
• Other documents

A quick hello to the folk at Lancashire Care Library and Information Service who launches their library blog yesterday.  God bless all who ail in her and all that malarkey!

Both yesterday and today the big news in the mass media has been the Healthcare Commission’s report (Investigation into outbreaks of Clostridium difficile at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust). The media coverage can be found in posts for 11th October 2007, 12th October 2007, and 13th - 15th October 2007 on our mass media focused Fade the Blog.

If you nip over to Fade the Blog, you can sign up to either the e-mail newsletter of it or its RSS Feeds

UK Health News

International Health News

Cheshire and Merseyside Health News

Cumbria and Lancashire Health News

Greater Manchester Health News

Or if you prefer them by topic you can also grab mass media feeds from our RSS Directory using the alphabetical list below.

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J / K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U / V / W / X / Y / Z

P.E.A.R.L.S (Practical Evidence About Real Life Situations) are produced by the Cochrane Primary Health Care Field and every two weeks 2 short (200 words or less) structured summaries of Cochrane reviews are sent out. You can subscribe to the e-mail here.

We noticed this as part of the National Library for Health’s Document of the Week Service which is also available in an RSS format .  If you want any help in using RSS or navigating round the National Library for Health contact Fade using the form below.

The TRIP database allows health professionals to easily find the highest-quality material available on the web - to help support evidence based practice. It searches a wide range of quality Evidence Based sources, including the local National Prescribing Centre’s MeReC materials, BestBETs, the full range of Evidence Based Journals from the BMJ (Evidence Based Medicine, Evidence Based Mental Health and Evidence Based Nursing that we’ve provided access to for you with your Athens password you register for it here can if you don’t have one) (you can see the full list here).

The database has a simple Google like interface up front and offers a great advanced search option for more complex searches. It also has Google like options for searching medical images and patient information leaflets. A search can also be used to create an RSS Feed that you can use in MyUpdate or your favourite Aggregator to keep up-to-date on the topic.

If you want some training using TRIP or any other search tools and you’re in Liverpool PCT contact the team at Fade using the form below.

A blend of North West and Fade purchased resources.

Health and Social Care in the Community

Health Information and Libraries Journal

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Sociology of Health & Illness

The $6million question. By the time you’ve included the increasing and changing range of national, regional and local e-journals along with the things that we take in print, you can see why it can be problematic. Luckily the fine folk at the National Library for Health have provided a simple A-Z tool in MyJournals.

When you login with your Athens password (if you aren’t certain what one is read the post ‘Athens Password? I’m Confused!’) it will list not only national resources but those available to you from your local library and region.

However listing journals isn’t all that MyJournals does. It also lists the full range of e-books available to you and allows you to set up contents page alerts from your favourite journals. All round then a useful tool to know about.

If you’re from Liverpool PCT and want some training in using MyJournals or more information about it, drop us a line using the contact form below.

ticTOCs aims to develop a freely available service which will transform journal current awareness by making it easy for academics and researchers to find, display, store, combine and reuse tables of contents from multiple publishers in a personalisable web based environment. What a great concept! I’m already looking forward to pushing it out to our users.

It’s good to share! Social bookmarking tools allow you to share your bookmarks with the rest of the world and your thinking on how they should be categorised so that people understand what you think they are good for. So they’re a great tool for teams where sharing information is important. Even better these tools mean that your favourite bookmarks are available to you on any internet connected device wherever you happen to be.

Tagging is the Key Ingredient

The ability to assign keywords (tags) describing content is the key feature that allows for easy retrieval and dissemination of information. Unlike folders, you make up tags when you need them and you can use as many as you like. The result is a better way to organize your bookmarks and a great way to discover interesting things on the Web. Mind you we would say that as a bunch of Librarian’s wouldn’t we! If you look at the Fade RSS Feed Directory, each of the feeds there is an RSS feed generated by a tag from the social bookmarking tool we use. This provides an easy route to share any topic based links that you collect.

Blinklist

Allows you to import bookmarks, displays popular/recent bookmarks, shows other related/directory links, allows you to rate the quality of a site bookmarked, allows you to mark things you don’t want to share as private, suggests tags from the list of tags you’ve already used (a really useful feature for maintaining consistency!), generates RSS feeds, provides widgets for use with other sites, and provides a browser add-on.

Del.icio.us

Allows you to import bookmarks, displays popular/recent bookmarks, shows other related/directory links, it doesn’t though allow you to rate the quality of a site bookmarked, allows you to mark things you don’t want to share as private, suggests tags from the list of tags you’ve already used (a really useful feature for maintaining consistency!), generates RSS feeds, provides widgets for use with other sites, and provides a browser add-on.

Furl

Doesn’t just bookmark the page you’ve bookmarked but archives it as you saw it. Allows you to import bookmarks, displays popular/recent bookmarks, shows other related/directory links, allows you to rate the quality of a site bookmarked, allows you to mark things you don’t want to share as private, doesn’t suggests tags from the list of tags you’ve already used, generates RSS feeds, provides widgets for use with other sites, and provides a browser add-on.

Ma.gnolia

Has a really useful groups feature. Allows you to import bookmarks, displays popular/recent bookmarks, allows you to rate the quality of a site bookmarked, allows you to mark things you don’t want to share as private, doesn’t suggests tags from the list of tags you’ve already used, generates RSS feeds, provides widgets for use with other sites, and provides a browser add-on.

Shadows

Allows you to import bookmarks, displays popular/recent bookmarks, shows other related/directory links, allows you to rate the quality of a site bookmarked, allows you to mark things you don’t want to share as private, doesn’t suggests tags from the list of tags you’ve already used, generates RSS feeds, provides widgets for use with other sites, and provides a browser add-on.

This isn’t a comprehensive list by any means but they are all tools that we have experience of. As ever if you want to use them for yourself or your team and you’re in Liverpool PCT use the contact form below to contact us to request training.

News feeds allow you to see when websites have added new content. You can get the latest headlines and video in one place, as soon as its published, without having to visit the websites you have taken the feed from.

Feeds are also known as RSS.

How do I start using RSS?

In general, the first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks the feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added. Luckily those kind folks at the National Library for Health have provided you with one in MyUpdate that is both easy to use and very effective.

All you need to do to use a feed is copy the web address of the feed (the page may look like horrible code - but don’t panic) and paste it into the new feed bit of your news reader.

Why should I start using RSS?

It’s quite simply the easiest way for you to keep up-to-date with key websites and things like e-journals without having to visit them all the time to see if they’ve updated. This saves you time for doing other things.

Help!

If you need some training, just contact the library on 0151 285 4493 or use the form below.

These have been available to Liverpool PCT staff for a while now as a result of a collaborative purchase with the other health libraries in Cheshire and Merseyside but it’s well worth reminding you that you have access to:

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Archives of Disease in Childhood

British Journal of Ophthalmology

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Emergency Medicine Journal

Evidence Based Medicine

Evidence Based Mental Health

Evidence Based Nursing

Gut

Heart

Injury Prevention

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Journal of Medical Ethics

Journal of Medical Genetics

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Medical Humanities

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Practical Neurology

Quality and Safety in Health Care

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Thorax

Tobacco Control

Western Journal of Medicine

MyLibrary allows you to personalise your space on the National Library for Health. There are four key elements to MyLibrary. Firstly it tells you which is your home library in the NHS (if your reading this - we hope it’s the Fade Library) at the top of the screen. On the left hand side you’ll find MyLinks, a place you can store and organise the key weblinks in your life. To the right of this you’ll find MyUpdate which allows you to collect and organise RSS Feeds (just copy the web address of the feed you want and paste it into the box that comes up when you click on the New Feed button). Down at the bottom you’ll see MyAthensResources which lists all of the e-resources you can access with your NHS Athens password.

Just to guide you through it the Fade Library has developed an electronic guide the My Library Manual.