Library Strategy and Annual Report in a nutshell

A full report is avialable on the intranet.  Any comments or suggestions are always welcomed.  Please contact the Library Manager via the internal mail

Strategy 2013-16

‘Your information needs. Our priority’ is at the centre of everything we do in order that you may deliver the highest level of care

For staff to provide safe, high quality care, they must use the latest evidence-based knowledge. We ensure that they can access this through the library’s services and resources regardless of their location, job function or the time of day. Our service saves colleagues’ time and the Trust money thus helping them to deliver safe, seamless patient-centred care to the highest standards

Key priorities for 2013-14

1. Quality and Safety – Ensure our resources are up to date and match the requirement of all those working in the Trust regardless of location or job function. Present a business case for a clinical librarian service to support clinicians in providing safe, high quality, evidence-based practice

2. Communication - improved intranet and Internet sites using social media where applicable with an external catalogue available to all members

3. Service – provide top class services to all regardless of location with increased opening hours. Support the health and well-being agenda and develop working with the southern sector

4. Finance and Governance – meet the average compliance with national NHS Library standards. Look for opportunities to develop services to other organisations such as Public Health

Report on 2012-13 – Key achievements

• Reconfigured the service to the community including appointing a community librarian

• Achieved 92% compliance with national NHS library standards which is above the average

• Streamlined and reduced the cost of our Inter Library Loans service

Summary of usage 2012-13

G Usage of Point of Care resources - Increased usage between 22-25%
GThe ETOCs (Electronic table of contents) 6% growth in titles delivered
FAccesses to online resources via Athens – small increase of 0.2% 
G Athens accounts – 14% increase in number of users on March 31st 2013
H E-books – 14% decrease in e-books usage 
FMembership – 1% decrease in members overall but an increase in people joining
H Book loans – continuing trend down by 10%
H Inter library loans – 4% decrease
G Inductions – 43% increase in people receiving induction
G Training – 100% increase in the number of people trained in information skills
G Literature searches – this service has seen a 17% growth from a very low base

the TRIP database

Have you ever used the TRIP database to find evidence? This resource is very user-friendly, and doesn't require a password for access (although there are a lot more features available if you register for a username and password).

To do a search, type your topic in the search box and click 'Search'.
On the right hand side you can filter your results by systematic reviews, primary research, case reports, etc.

Go to the tabs along the top where you can click on images, video clips, patient information and news items, all related to your search.

There is also a DynaMed tab at the top which will link your search to DynaMed results, provided that you've registered and selected Stockport NHS Foundation Trust as your institution in your profile. Any articles from journals that we subscribe to should also have a Full Text link below the document.

If you register with the site, there is a feature called Timeline which keeps a record of your searches - this can be helpful for your continuing professional development. Also, you can click on 'CPD / CME' below a document, which will allow you to reflect about that particular piece of research - you can make notes on what you've learnt and how you will apply it in practice.

Try out a search today - go to http://www.tripdatabase.com/ and add the Trip database to your list of useful resources for high quality evidence.

New health visiting website

Take a look at this new site

Contains communities of practice, news items, events and resources

eWIN - are you connected?

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eWIN is the NHS workforce information network designed to enable targeted, informed and evidence based improvements in workforce efficiency and productivity.

• a repository of valuable workforce indicators
• best practice and modelling tools
• a portal which provides access to statistics, case studies, research

Examples of case studies -  
Values Based Competency Interview Questions for Clinical Roles;
Redesigning maternity services in Sandwell and West Birmingham;
e-PAIGE: Web-based Resource for End of Life Care

Example hot topic:
Building Learning & Development Excellence;
A Culture of High Quality Care and Patient Safety;
NHS Values and Behaviors Web Based Tool

To access the site? https://www.ewin.nhs.uk/

Evidence updates

NICE Evidence Updates help to reduce the need for individuals, managers and commissioners to search for new evidence, and keep health and social care professionals up-to-date with new research. While Evidence Updates do not replace current accredited guidance and do not provide formal recommendations, they do highlight new evidence that health and social care professionals may wish to consider alongside current guidance. An Evidence Update Advisory Group, comprised of topic experts, reviewed the prioritised evidence and provided a commentary.

New Evidence Updates from NICE: We are pleased to inform you that Evidence Updates on ‘Surgical site infections’ and ‘Depression in children and young people’ have now been published.

Online tutorial for finding the evidence

Our lovely colleagues at Edge Hill have posted some help on YouTube.  Take a look and see if it helps when searching for the evidence via the Healthcare Databases

Link to the Edge Hill page containing the information here

Putting together a search strategy A step-by-step guide to structuring a literature search.

Search tips for NHS Evidence Databases Useful tips on how to get the best results from a literature search of the databases.

Thesaurus tips Useful tips on how to use thesaurus terms effectively when conducting a literature search of the databases.

The Cochrane Library A quick and clear guide to conducting an effective search in The Cochrane Library. 

 Another favourite on the page is a link on how to reference as provided by Portsmouth University
http://referencing.port.ac.uk/ 

The look of the new NHS

Here are some links to some sites that might help you build that important mental picture of the new NHS.  Hope these help!

The one produced for the public!  Click here

A pictorial representation by NHS Employers.  Click here

An interactive diagram showing the new organisations and their responsibilities.  Click here

From October 2012 (so now out of date) but is very clear!  Click here

And finally, something completely different.  The King's Fund, 'An alternative guide to the new NHS in England'

The Library's external website

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust has launched its new website.

You can find us through a search using the word library; on the Our Services A-Z; from the Working for Us

Here is the new slim line weblink for the library: http://www.stockport.nhs.uk/library  Currently there is a problem linking out to the other pages from this.  To link to the other pages, do a search on the Working for Us page.  This will be resolved early July.

IDEAL:
for finding Library resources and information

QUICK ROUTE TO:

• patient care resources like Dynamed and UpToDate
• healthcare databases for finding journal articles
• online journals
• online books

May - new books for you!

Athens login on the left, organisation NHS England

E-books
Advanced respiratory critical care (2011)
Hughes, Martin

Dementia; from advanced disease to bereavement (2011)
Pace, Victor

Oxford handbook of clinical immunology and allergy (2013)
Spickett, Gavin

Oxford handbook of clinical surgery (2013)
McLatchie, Greg R.

Oxford handbook of genitourinary medicine, HIV, and sexual health (2010)
Sankar, Nathan

Oxford handbook of urology  (2013)
Reynard, John

Respiratory disease; from advanced disease to bereavement (2011)
Spathis, Anna

Examinations
Get through MRCP : PACES (2013)
Gulati, Rajeev
610.76 GUL

Gastroenterology
Yamada's handbook of gastroenterology (2013)
Yamada, Tadataka
616.3 YAM

Speech and Language Therapy
Scientific thinking in speech and language therapy (2013)
Lum, Carmel
616.855007 LUM

accessing Wiley journals

Wiley, one of our journal providers, is currently unable to allow users to login with their Athens accounts. They are working to resolve this issue. We hope to update the Journals A-Z list as soon as we can with the correct links.

In the meantime, here is an alternative link that should help you access Wiley journals published until December 2012, which is when our subscription ended. Please follow the instructions below:

• Click on the following link:

https://auth.athensams.net/?ath_returl=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/login-proxy-athens%3FPage=http%3A%2F%2Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com&ath_dspid=WILEY.OL

• Log in with your Athens username and password. This will take you to the Wiley homepage.

• Click on the button next to 'Publication Titles' and search for your journal by the exact title.

• The results page will show the name of the journal - click on the name and you will be taken to that journal's website, where you should have fulltext access to many of the backfiles. Remember that you won't have fulltext access to issues published in 2013 (although Wiley often makes the first issue of the year a free issue).

Changes at NICE

 

As a result of changes at NICE, NHS Evidence is now called 'NICE Evidence Services'.

NICE Evidence Services aim to help professionals make better and quicker evidence-based decisions and are a suite of services that provide online access to high quality, authoritative evidence and best practice. The services are:


• Evidence Search – which provides access to a unique index of selected and authoritative health and social care evidence-based information.

• Healthcare Database Advanced Search (HDAS) – which provides access via a federated search to a set of bibliographic databases purchased by NICE on behalf of the NHS.

• Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) – which provide primary care practitioners with access to evidence-based guidance on over 300 key conditions presenting in primary care.

• BNF microsite – which provides open access to BNF content across the UK.

• UK DUETS – a database of Evidence Uncertainties which provides research funders and researchers, access to the 'known unknowns' in the evidence base.

• Bulletins, Alerts and Evidence Awareness service – which helps busy professionals keep up to date with important new evidence.

News about features on Dynamed

Click here to access this resource with your Athens username and password

Useful feature number 1.

Drug information now links to the BNF.

Useful feature number 2.

You can download this resource to an Android phone, ipad, iphone or a number of other mobile devices.  Click this link to find out more information.  Contact the Library for the serial numbers needed to set it up.

Useful feature number 3.

Use the  'Get CME' tool, top left, to support you in the evidence for revalidation. It is a really simple way of providing the evidence that you have kept abreast of current practice in the medical field by using DynaMed. 



Latest ClinicalKey Information

**  Stockport NHS Foundation staff and students now have access to this resource
 via Athens until 28th June 

** Go to www.clinicalkey.com and login via the top right hand corner.  Click on 'Go to Athens...' and then type NHS England in the left hand box to open an Athens login box

** Guides to help you use it can be found here

** Information about getting an Athens logon can be found here

March 2013

Well, it appears that winter is still with us! But there is light at the end of the horizon...

The library newsletter is sent out four times a year to current members of the library and anyone else who would like to keep up to date with the latest developments in healthcare.

We publish posts whenever we have news, so it's worth checking our blog from time to time.

New member of library staff!

Welcome to our new Assistant Librarian Stephen Edwards, who joins us following a varied career in healthcare, education and voluntary sector libraries. Stephen will have particular responsibility for helping community staff to access library resources. When he`s not out in the community you`ll be able to find him in the Education Centre Library at Pinewood House.
We are expecting great things from him when he joins our pub quiz team! :-)

Your views do count!

It was back in the autumn that we asked for your views on the library service.  A big thank you to the 346 people who responded

The microsite will have the results in full plus a more detailed analysis by April 22nd but here are some of the actions we are considering.

Opening Times

We will be investigating the implications of having one late night until 7pm.  There is an issue over the building being shut and coverage for holidays.

We are aware that parking for community staff is difficult but this is a larger issue than just for the library

Library environment

The temperature in the library was a concern. Since carrying out the survey, this has improved but we are limited by the system that is installed

Knowledge of library resources

*  Market individual resources by email to improve knowledge of them

*  For community staff organise visits by our Outreach Librarian

*  Update this blog more regularly

*  Investigate using the library catalogue to make users aware of new resources in their areas of interest

Quality of library resources

Books

*  We have removed a large number of old books and will continue to this. 

*  Areas highlighted for improvement include physiotherapy,  laboratory medicine, nutrition, midwifery and anaesthesia.  We are looking for new titles in these areas

*  Provide an online form for suggesting new titles

Journals

We will be looking at revising our purchasing model for 2014 ... another survey I am afraid!

Overall

*  Majority of users are happy with the level of service and generally with the resources

* There are issues for community staff so we will be working to help them use the online resources more effectively and to provide a system for borrowing physical resources more easily

ClinicalKey trial

In April the library will be starting a trial of ClinicalKey, an evidence-based resource similar to UpToDate and Dynamed. The library staff will be promoting the trial around the hospital so look out for us and let us know if you would like more information about it. You will be able to access it with your Athens username and password for the duration of the trial. Watch this space!

So what will you be able to access during the trial?
Full text access to 523 Elsevier journals
Full text access to 1023 Elsevier books
350 clinical procedures with videso sequences
764 topics under the title of First Consult

At the end of the 2 month trial we will be seeking your views on this resource.

Problems accessing journal articles?

Recent changes to Athens have altered the way in which you access a number of journals.
Unfortunately, the process of logging in is different for different publishers so we've made a brief guide. Always start by searching for the journal via the A-Z Journals list: http://www.stockport.nhs.uk/working-for-us/library-and-it-facilities/journals2.aspx

Wiley:
• Click on the journal’s name in the A-Z Journals list.
• On the journal’s home page, click on ‘Institutional Login’.
• In the ‘Institution Name’ box, type stepping hill and select Stepping Hill Hospital (Athens).
• Click ‘Login’ and enter your Athens username and password
• You will be taken back to the Wiley Online library home page.
• Enter the journal name in the search box on the left
• Click on the journal title in the search results

ProQuest:
• Click on the journal’s name in the A-Z Journals list
• Select NHS England from the drop-down menu and click ‘Login’. Enter your Athens username and password.

BMJ Journals:
• Click on the journal’s name in the A-Z Journals list. Click on ‘Login via Athens or your home organisation’ on the right
• Click on ‘Login via Athens’ on the left hand side of the page and enter your Athens username and password.

Science Direct:

•  Click on the journal’s name in the A-Z Journals list

• Click on ‘Login’ in the top right hand corner
• Click on ‘Go to Athens / Other Institution Login’
• Select ‘OpenAthens Federation (Eduserv)’ from the dropdown menu and click ‘Go’
• Scroll down the list and click on NHS England. Enter your Athens username and password.

EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service:

• Click on the journal’s name in the A-Z Journals list

• Click on ‘Athens Login’ in the centre of the page at the top. Enter your Athens username and password.

Ovid:
• Click on the journal’s name in the A-Z Journals list
• Click on ‘Athens Login’ in the top right hand corner of the page. Enter your Athens username and password.


If you are still experiencing problems, please ring 0161 419 5809 for help from the library staff.

Free training sessions

The best things in life are free - like the library's training sessions! All you need to do is phone the library on 0161 419 4690 to book your place. Here are the courses we are running over the next few months:

APRIL

Wednesday 17th 9.30 - 11am Introduction to Literature Searching

Monday 22nd 1.30 - 4.30pm In-Depth Literature Searching 

MAY

Thursday 2nd 9.30am -12pm Using PubMed Effectively

Tuesday 7th 1.30 - 4.30pm The Cochrane Library - an Evidence-Based Resource

Wednesday 22nd 9am - 12pm In-Depth Literature Searching

JUNE

Friday 7th 9.30am-12pm Writing Patient Information Leaflets

Wednesday 12th 2-4pm Introduction to Critical Appraisal - with Statistics

Tuesday 18th 2-5pm In-Depth Literature Searching

Monday 24th 3.30 - 5pm Introduction to Literature Searching


JULY

Thursday 4th 9.30-11am Starting a course? How to find journal articles

Thursday 11th 9.30am-12.30pm The Cochrane Library - an Evidence-Based Resource

Monday 15th 1.30-4pm Writing Patient Information Leaflets

Thursday 18th 9.30am-12.30pm In-Depth Literature Searching


You will need an Athens username and password for most of these sessions. If you haven't got an Athens account, you can set one up from any NHS computer here: https://register.athensams.net/nhs/nhseng/

The National electronic Library for Medicines (NeLM) is changing

From April 2013, the National electronic Library for Medicines (NeLM) will be integrated into NHS Evidence, and NeLM will no longer exist. NICE is working in conjunction with the UK Medicines Information Service (UKMi) to create a single place for medicines information, which will be called NGS Evidence.Prescribers will be able to search NGS Evidence for high-quality, evidence-based medicines information.

A new personalised Medicines Awareness Service will also be launched in April 2013, replacing the existing NeLM newsletter. Key current awareness information can be e-mailed to you on a daily or weekly basis. More information on this service can be found here: 
http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/nhs-evidence-content/medicines-information/new-medicines-awareness-service

New Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) service

The new Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) service provided by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) will be going live in early April 2013. The new CKS service will provide summaries of the best available evidence and practical guidance on best practice in an accessible, easy to use format aimed at primary care practitioners. The website will cover a full range of primary care presentations for over 300 primary care topics when it launches. It will also introduce up to 10 new primary care topics each year.
The new CKS service will replace the existing CKS service. You will find the new service at www.cks.nhs.uk.

You are encouraged to register as a NICE user and benefit from all the services offered by NICE. Please click on this link and complete the registration details. You can also register for a My Evidence account by clicking on this link.

Healthcare Apps Library

NHS Healthcare Apps Library – a component of the NHS Integrated Customer Services Platform programme – is now available to view at http://apps.nhs.uk/

The NHS Commissioning Board would be grateful for any feedback on the apps and the Library. You can submit your comments via the feedback form at the bottom of each page. They would also be grateful for any ratings or reviews that people are able to submit for the apps.
For any further enquiries on the Health Apps Library or the NHS Integrated Customer Services Platform programme, please email engagement@nhs.net

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - case reports and surgical techniques

The library's subscription to The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American volume) also gives you access to two extra features on the website.

'Case Connector - connections and trends in orthopaedic surgery' is a collection of case reports, which can be searched by topic, by disease and condition, or by treatments and procedures.

'Essential Surgical Techniques - evolving practice in orthopaedic surgery' allows you to browse surgical techniques by topic or by year.

Both features are full text resources. You can access them from the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery homepage. Just log on with your Athens username and password and click on Essential Surgical Techniques or Case Connector in the top-right hand corner of the page. Both features are also available for download on mobile devices - see the website for details.

Alternatively, you can log on to Case Connector here: http://caseconnector.jbjs.org/ and Essential Surgical Techniques here: http://surgicaltechniques.jbjs.org/

Emerald management journals - last chance to try!

Our subscription to Emerald management journals will be ending on 31st March 2013. The collection contains 120 full text journals focusing mainly around the topics of management, marketing and business.

The basic search function will produce hits from journals, books and case studies, and results with a green tick beside them will indicate that you have access to the full text.

You have until the end of the month to make use of the journals, so click on the link below to try out a search. Click on 'Athens / Institutional login' in the top left hand corner and then 'Athens login' in the centre of the page to enter your Athens username and password.

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/index.htm

You can now borrow more books!

You may be happy to hear that the book limit has gone up from 6 to 8 books, two of which can be one-week loans. Fiction and Self-Health books are not included in this limit. So as well as your 8 books, you can also borrow up to four books from our Self-Health collection, or four fiction books.

NHS Stockport's new 'Healthy Stockport Website'

NHS Stockport’s Public Health Department are launching a ‘Healthy Stockport Website’.

This is a new health and wellbeing website featuring lots of information and advice to help those who want to make positive changes to their health and lifestyle. The site covers a range of topics including Healthy Eating, Move More, Smoking, Mental Wellbeing and Alcohol.

Why not take a look via www.healthystockport.co.uk

Department of Health site

“The Department of Health website will move to the new single website for government in March 2013. GOV.UK is the new single website for UK Government":

“If you have a page on our current website bookmarked, don’t worry. Links will continue to work. Our current web pages will either re-direct to the new pages on GOV.UK that contain the same information, or link to an archived version of the page on The National Archives Website.”

Full announcement here: http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/2013/02/dh-website-to-move/

December 2012

This issue of our newsletter features Mary's photo of a chilly bird in the Alps.

The library staff would like to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and we look forward to working with you in 2013!

The GOOD NEWS!!

Yes, we do have some.

The resources that we will be keeping

Dynamed

Medical Masterclass

UpToDate

A number of top journals (just a few listed here)
CORR, Stroke, Journal of Advanced Nursing, JBJS
Manual Therapy, Cancer Nursing, Circulation

We have extended access to UpToDate via Athens which means for the first time you can access it from outside the Trust

Dynamed can be added to your mobile phone.  Follow this link for instructions and contact the library for a special code on library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk

BNF goes mobile too

....and finally some very exciting news.  In January we will be interviewing for a new librarian to help support those people working in the community.  We will be introducing you to our new team member in our next newsletter in March.

and the bad news

Like all parts of the organisation, we have to make our contribution to financial savings. 

In the autumn of 2011 we asked the following question in an online survey:- UpToDate or journals? 94 people responded to this question with 79% (74 individuals) preferring to purchase UpToDate. For those unfamiliar with UpToDate, it is an evidence-based resource aimed to help clinicians with point of care decisions.

Purchasing for 2013
To meet our financial target for 2013 meant that a large resource would need to be cut and there were only two such resources that would give the required level of saving. These were UpToDate and the Wiley collection of journals.
Based on the survey results, I decided to cut the Wiley collection. This would allow us to
maintain the other journals and resources that we purchase.

Purchasing for 2014
I wish to review all our journals, evidence-based resources and other online resources for
2014 so that we can rebalance our resources for the new structure. Once again we will be
asking people’s views on this with a simple questionnaire. We need to know what the
absolute information essentials are for people to carry out their work safely and effectively.

I will be looking for volunteers from across the Trust to help with making the final decisions.   Postscript:  I am very sorry to lose this valuable collection which we have bought since 2006.  I tried very hard to negotiate a reduced fee but was unable to do so.  By the end of the first week in January, the journal A-Z should reflect this as will our etocs.  As a personal reflection, it would seem that our loyalty to the collection seemed to count for very little.