The Graylingwell Review
To mark the years that Graylingwell Hospital had its own library, we are now publishing "The Graylingwell Review," an online book review site on Wordpress. This will highlight new stock, giving you a flavour of our mental health titles.
Journal current contents
To see the contents of current issues of our electronic journals, click through to our Journals sites on Netvibes. We have two: one for acute and community care and one for mental health. These contain the latest issues of all our journals, plus some key ones from the national collection. Once you're there, clicking on the article title will take you to the full text, although you may have to login via your NHS Athens account.
New Primary Care Librarian joins the team
Tom Roper has started with us as Primary Care Librarian.
" I’ve been working in health information for twenty years, in hospitals, regions (remember them?), Royal Colleges, medical schools and most recently as Information Specialist for NHS Evidence –Eyes & Vision.
The son of a GP, I’m excited by the opportunity to improve information services to health professionals in primary care, where 90% of peoples’ contact with the NHS takes place. I look forward to meeting lots of GPs and practice and community staff over the coming months, and developing services to support you.
Outside work, I’ve been learning classical Greek at a very slow pace; I also run marathons, swim and sail a dinghy."
Training courses
Our training programme for Autumn has been published. It includes sessions on patient information, the Cochrane Library, on Medline, EMBase, CINAHL and the other literature databases. Please contact us to book
sessions on critical appraisal skills.
Our regular training is available in Worthing Hospital, St Richard's Hospital and The Causeway, Goring by Sea. If you find these difficult to reach, contact us for a one-to-one session at your
workplace.
We will not be offering any new group training sessions until after Easter.
Dynamed now available for hospital & primary care
DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care' with clinically-organized
summaries on more than 3,200 topics. DynaMed is updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases. Each publication is reviewed
cover-to-cover and each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content. The overall conclusions are changed as
appropriate, representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process, the best available evidence is speedily available to you.
Dynamed's URL is http://ebscohost.com/dynamed/ . It is available to anyone with a Western Sussex Hospitals trust, Sussex Community Trust or NHS West Sussex Athens account. For help, please contact the Dunhill Library, Chichester, Worthing Health Sciences Library or Rachel Coton, Primary Care librarian.
Public health & commissioning
Erica Rae has joined us as Public Health & Commissioning Librarian. She will work in the public health offices in Chichester and at The Causeway to provide knowledge management support and access to clinical evidence. She can be contacted on 07710 979157 or erica.rae@wsht.nhs.uk.
Where are all the journals?
Most of our journals have been converted to electronic subscriptions. This allows Worthing & Southlands staff see titles that were in Chichester and vice versa. For browsing the printed editions we now have iPads available.
Updated 16th Jan 2012