• Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Commissioning Toolkit
• CSIP Better Commissioning programme
• New NICE Commissioning guides: Cognitive behavioural therapy and Faecal continence service
• West Kent PCT: World Class Commissioning strategy and delivering a commissioning model
• National Cancer Intelligence Network
• Commissioning Specialist Library: Have you say
• A resource to help primary care pharmacists in England involved in PBC
• Revised guidance: primary care dental contracts Advice on managing end of year issues
• Other documents, websites and conferences

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• 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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We got asked to pull some current awareness together for our clinical reference group who wanted to keep up to date with policy etc.  We could have pointed them here but they might have found it a bit rambling.  The result was Post It Notes on Letterpop.

Science Watch from Thomson combines newsletter, regularly updated data, analysiscommentary and interviews on latest scientific developments.  Keep an eye on What’s hot in medicine - to keep up to date with the latest hot topics in the field.  Feeds and podcasts are available and planned on this open web resource.

The new edition of The Commissioner is out today.  Now with new added podcast!

• Commissioning NHS primary care dental services: meeting the NHS operating framework objectives
• The Future of Care Funding: Time for a change
• Practice Based Commissioning GP practice survey
• Best practice guidance for joint working between the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry
• New release of NICE commissioning tools
• Mental Health Act Commission’s Biennial Report; Risks, Rights, Recovery
• Implementing practice based commissioning
• Learning from investigations
• Working Across Boundaries for 18 weeks and beyond – registration now live

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Volume 3 Issue 1 of the Commissioner is now available with the following content.

• Towards World Class Commissioning Competency
• Practice based commissioning - budget setting refinements and clarification of health funding flexibilities, incentive schemes and governance
• Commenting in response to the publication of the NHS Operating Framework for 2008/09
• Practice and Provider Monitor (PPM) - a common information source for both providers and commissioners
• Collaborative commissioning of National Screening Programmes
• A funding model for health visiting
• A personal approach to public services
• Evidence-based Commissioning Collaboration
• Other documents and conferences

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Volume 2 Issue 12 of The Commissioner contains the following items.

• World Class Commissioning
• Kings Fund Briefing: Practice-based commissioning
• New Commissioner Module for the No Delays Achiever Now Available
• Communities of Practice: Commissioning Patient Pathways
• Putting commissioning into practice
• Kings Fund Briefing: Payment by Results
• PARR case finding tool
• Treatment Centres
• Services for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour/mental health needs
• Valuing People’s Oral Health

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New to us at Fade is the NHS Employers E-mail bulletin - the cunningly titled NHS Workforce Bulletin. Basically it’s a weekly bulletin of information relating to workforce issues, events, publications and how to have your say on NHS workforce policy and practice. To subscribe to the e-mail version of the bulletin follow this link www.nhsemployers.org/workforcebulletin.

Quick tip of the collective library hat (let us know what style you think would suit us) to the crew at Salford for pointing this out.

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

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

The new issue of The Commissioner is now available. Contents of Volume 2 Issue 10 are:

• Who pays? Establishing the responsible commissioner
• Two new tools to help diabetes networks develop and improve their services
• Reducing health inequalities for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people - briefings for health and social care staff
• The NHS will require substantially higher levels of funding over next 20 years
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society: Practice Based Commissioning
• Anticipatory case management and practice-based commissioning
• Transferring assets to social enterprises - the perks and quirks
• Other Documents

You can sign up to receive the Commissioner by e-mail on The Commissioner blog, or you can download it’s pdf (The Commissioner Volume 2 Issue 10) or you can subscribe to the Commissioner’s RSS Feed

If you want a hand using RSS and you’re from Liverpool PCT just ask us to come and deliver some training using the form below (not certain what RSS is check out our earlier post ‘What is this RSS thing?’)

The Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCOA), Midwives (RCM), Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), and Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) have published

Safer Childbirth - Minimum Standards for the Organisation and Delivery of Care in Labour

It looks at the staffing requirements, skill mix and teamwork required to provide effective and safe services in this area following concerns from Concerns from the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH) and its predecessor organisations the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy (CESDI) and the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CEMD).

If you just want to read a briefing look at the Executive Summary. You can see what the mass media have to say about it direct from yesterdays post from Fade the Blog (which you can susbscribe to as RSS or as a daily email alert).

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 $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.

In a world with 24/7 media coverage and the seemingly endless fascination with all things medical, there really isn’t the time to leaf through the day’s papers to keep up-to-date with what the public are being told health is all about (plus your hand’s would get covered in newsprint!) So as a library service we’ve taken the effort out of keeping up to date with ‘Another 15 Minutes…Health News from Fade’ (aka Fade the Blog). However to make it even easier you can receive it as an e-mail by signing up with the form on the Blog or by contacting us using the form below. Too tired to read the blog or email, just listen to the Podcast! (Be warned our podcast is automatically generated and therefore you won’t get to hear the dulcit tones of the Fade Library staff reading to you!)

If you want to keep up-to-date with a more specific aspect of the news media e.g. What are the papers saying about Infection Control? Then just use one of the many RSS feeds we generate as part of this service (our feed directory will help you locate relevant feeds). Check out our post on RSS if you need more information on RSS.

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.