Surf's Up - Internet sites of interest
Anthea Sutton
Information Specialist
ScHARR
Email:
Compiled [7th April 2009]
New
websites/resources
The Care
Quality Commission
http://www.cqc.org.uk/
The Care Quality
Commission (CQC) is the new independent regulator of health and social
care in England, replacing the Healthcare Commission, the Mental
Health Act Commission and the Commission for Social Care Inspection.
The CQC aims to make sure better care is provided for everyone,
whether that's in hospital, in care homes, in people's own homes, or
elsewhere. It regulates health and adult social care services, whether
provided by the NHS, local authorities, private companies or voluntary
organisations. The website includes information on care services,
publications from CQC and previous commissions, news and events, and
guidance for professionals.
The
Commissioning Handbook
http://commissioning.pbwiki.com/00-Contents
The
Commissioning Handbook is sponsored by the National Library for Health
and is being developed by information professionals. It aims to
ensure that information professionals can better support NHS staff
involved in commissioning health services. The handbook is available
from the Commissioning wiki at:
http://commissioning.pbwiki.com/.
The Editorial Group welcome feedback and can be contacted via the wiki
at:
http://commissioning.pbwiki.com/01-2--Making-recommendations-for-the-Commissioning-Handbook.
Essential
Evidence Plus Web Tutorials
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/demo/
Essential Evidence Plus (http://essentialevidenceplus.com/)
is an integrated, online decision-support system focused on improving
patient care and increasing clinical efficiency that incorporates
reviews from the Cochrane Library. It filters for relevance and
usefulness, and grades the evidence for accuracy and validity. Wiley
Interscience has introduced a number of online tutorials about
Essential Evidence Plus including an introduction, the databases, and
searching and browsing. See:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/demo/
for the full list.
Evidence
Based Library and Information Practice Presentation
http://scharrlatan.typepad.com/
A podcast of a presentation
on Evidence Based Library and Information Practice that Andrew Booth
delivered via video link to a recent librarians conference in Puerto
Rico is available at:
http://scharrlatan.typepad.com/EBLIP - The
Impossible Will Take a Little While.ppt
(PowerPoint Presentation) and
http://scharrlatan.typepad.com/EBLIP%20Imposible%20%28PR%29.MP3
(Audio Commentary).
National
Library for Health Commissioning Specialist Library
http://www.library.nhs.uk/commissioning/
The NLH
Commissioning Specialist Library (CSL) was officially launched at the
King’s Fund Annual Conference in November 2008.
The CSL aims to be a one-stop shop providing
timely and efficient access to high quality information resources for
all those involved in commissioning for health and wellbeing. It
endeavours to include the best available evidence, examples of good
practice, policy and data to support world class commissioning.
NHS Choices: Comment on a Hospital
http://www.nhs.uk/servicedirectories/Pages/HospitalCommentInput.aspx?searchtype=hospitalcommentsearch
Patients are now able to rate the service they receive in hospitals
using a new tool on the NHS Choices website. Patients are asked to
comment on five areas: dignity and respect, cleanliness, doctors and
nurses working well together, involvement in decision making and
recommending the hospital.
NHS Immunisation Information: Local
Co-ordinators Toolkit
http://www.immunisation.nhs.uk/Local_coordinators_toolkit
The Immunisation Local Co-ordinators Toolkit has been created for
health professionals who coordinate the delivery of the national
immunisation programme locally. This toolkit will signpost and
describe key resources for use by PCT immunisation coordinators, PCT
flu coordinators and others in similar roles.
TRIP Answers
http://www.tripanswers.org/
TRIP (Turning
Research Into Practice) has released a new site: TRIP Answers. It is
a repository of clinical Q&As from a large number of organisations.
Each Q&A is evidence graded and can be located via searching or
browsing via tag clouds.
UK Health Informatics Today
http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/ukhit/UKHIT583-winter-2008.pdf
The latest issue of UK
Health Informatics Today (UKHIT no 58, Winter 2008-09) is now
available to download. The issue focuses on matters relating to the
security and confidentiality of healthcare data. Nathan Lea, the
guest editor, is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health
Informatics and Multiprofessional Education at University College
London and works with the Electronic Healthcare Records Group. The
five contributors to this issue come from a range of professional
backgrounds and offer their reflections on what steps are needed to
safeguard patient information.
Updated/revised websites
Intute: Health and Life Sciences
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/
There have been some changes
made to the subject headings on the Intute Health and Life Sciences
home page. The Bioresearch and Natural History headings have been
combined into a single new heading called Biological Sciences. In
addition, Intute have improved the content and subject coverage,
adding more than 500 brand new Web resources in the biological
sciences. The new URL for the Biological Sciences section is:
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/biologicalsciences/.
There are redirects set up from the former URLs.
MAPI Research Trust
http://www.mapi-trust.org/
The MAPI Research Trust (MRT) has
made some changes to its website intending to make it easier to find
information. MRT aims to provide reliable, comprehensive and
up-to-date information services to those in the field of
Patient-Reported Outcomes and Pharmaco-Epidemiology around the globe.
The National Library
for Health
http://www.library.nhs.uk/
The National Library for
Health transferred into the National Institute for Health and Clinical
Excellence on 1st April 2009, and its staff and resources will now
form the backbone of the new NHS Evidence service:
http://www.nice.org.uk/aboutnice/nhsevidence/AboutNHSEvidence.jsp.
Systematic Reviews:
CRD’s guidance for undertaking reviews in health care
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/systematic_reviews_book.htm
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at The
University of York has published a new edition (3rd) of
their guidance on undertaking reviews in healthcare. See:
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/systematic_reviews_book.htm
to access both the electronic version and the PDF, or to order a print
copy.
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