Author: Jason Curtis

Stay ahead of the latest journal articles with Read by QxMD

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If you're looking for an easy way to see the latest articles in your favourite journals or on keywords of interest, Read by QxMD can help.

It's an app and website that tracks articles in healthcare journals and alerts you to new ones matching your interests. More than that, it can make finding the full-text easy as it links to our journal holdings, or locates open access copies. The app version can store your NHS OpenAthens account details - no more logging into OpenAthens each time you want to access an article!

It's free to create a Read by QxMD account, and you can link your account to the journal holdings of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust, Staffordshire University or Keele University.

You can also add papers to your own virtual collections, recommend papers, and discuss articles.

Access research easily with LibKey Nomad

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LibKey Nomad makes locating full-text journal articles easier, and is a free browser extension made available by NHS England. Once added, LibKey Nomad indicates if an article is available in full-text through the library. It works on many publisher websites, PubMed, and Wikipedia and adds links to access the full-text or PDF.

If there is no full-text access, LibKey Nomad will direct you to our article request form where it will add the article details for you to make requesting a copy via the library much easier.

Anatomy.TV interactive 3D anatomy resource

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Anatomy.TV interactive 3D anatomy resource

You have access to the 3D Interactive Anatomy and the Functional Anatomy modules from the Primal Pictures' Anatomy.TV resource. Visit our Anatomy.TV page to find more information, and demonstration videos.

Access is via your NHS OpenAthens account on any device. We have five user licences, so we would ask that you please logoff after you have finished to allow other people to log on.

UpToDate clinical decision support tool

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UpToDate is an evidence-based knowledge system that helps clinicians make the right decisions at the point of care. It contains over 11,000 articles, providing evidence-graded treatment recommendations as well as diagnostic and other information for common as well as rare conditions.

It is available to Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust staff and students, and can be accessed via the SaTH Intranet without a password. It can also be accessed off-site and via the UpToDate mobile app. 

Access e-books anywhere, anytime, on any device

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You can easily access a collection of over 16,000 e-books on the ProQuest Ebook Central platform and these can either be viewed online, or downloaded to a mobile device for access anywhere.

To view an e-book online, you'll just need a free NHS OpenAthens account to login and then you can read the whole book.

If you want to download an e-book for offline reading, you'll need to install the Adobe Digital Editions app for Android or  iOS. This is a free app, but does require you to register for a free Adobe ID. You'll also need your NHS OpenAthens account to download e-books to your device.

Our guide to downloading e-books gives more details and also explains how to access chapters of e-books on dedicated e-book readers. Once you've got the app set up, you'll be able to download our e-books to your mobile device for up to 14 days for offline reading. If you need them for longer, simply download them again.

Here are some of the latest books added to the collection:

Support your mental health and wellbeing with these free apps

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NHS staff have been given free access to a number of helpful apps until the end of December, to help you support your own mental health and wellbeing through this challenging time.  For more information on how to access these, visit the NHS Employers website.

Unmind

Unmind is a mental health platform that empowers staff to proactively improve their mental wellbeing. Using scientifically-backed assessments, tools and training you can measure and manage your personal mental health needs, including digital programmes designed to help with stress, sleep, coping, connection, fulfillment and nutrition.

Headspace

Headspace is a science-backed app in mindfulness and meditation, providing unique tools and resources to help reduce stress, build resilience, and aid better sleep.

Sleepio

Sleepio is a clinically-evidenced sleep improvement programme that is fully automated and highly personalised, using cognitive behavioural techniques to help improve poor sleep.

Daylight

Daylight is a smartphone-based app that provides help to people experiencing symptoms of worry and anxiety, using evidence-based cognitive behavioural techniques, voice and animation.

Finding improvement case studies

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When looking at service development or improvement, the evidence can seem quite limited. In many cases other people may have implemented new ideas or services, but not written it up for publication in a journal.

The sources below provide case studies and examples of improvements or innovations, and may be useful as a way of learning from other people's experiences or getting ideas to implement in practice. It's not an exhaustive list and case studies will be available in other sources, such as individual Trust's websites.

Library staff can also find evidence to support you in developing services or innovations, and we offer an evidence search service.

Academy of Fabulous Stuff

Describes itself as ‘A social movement for sharing Health & Social Care Ideas, services and solutions that work’. Includes informal case studies of new innovations or ideas. The quality of reporting varies.

eWIN Workforce Information Network

eWIN is the NHS workforce information network designed to enable improvements in workforce development, efficiency and productivity.

To search, visit the Tools and Resources page, enter your search terms and select ‘Case Study’ before running the search.

Health Foundation

An independent charity committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK. To find case studies, run a search and filter to ‘Improvement projects’.

NHS Confederation

Membership body that brings together and speaks on behalf of all organisations that plan, commission and provide NHS services.

To find case studies, run a search and filter to ‘Case studies’ (under ‘Category’) then click ‘Apply Filters’.

NHS England

Search the publications database, and filter to ‘Case studies’. This is a very small collection.

NHS Improvement

Visit the Resources page, run a search and filter to ‘Shared Learning’.

NHS Improvement and NHS England have merged so this website may change, but new resources are still being added as of February 2020.

NICE Local Practice Case Studies

A number of case studies around implementing NICE Guidance in practice.

Staying informed of the latest evidence with KnowledgeShare

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KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised service to keep you up to date with new knowledge and evidence in healthcare. You save time by only seeing items relevant to you.

As well as covering the whole range of physical and mental health conditions and risk factors, KnowledgeShare covers a huge range of professional interests and several new categories have been added this month:

  • Coronavirus Infections

  • Freedom to Speak Up

  • Bullying and Harassment

New and existing subscribers can sign up for updates on these topics, and any others, by completing the evidence update form to ensure you get the latest information.

An easy way to stay ahead of the latest journal articles

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Want to keep up to date with your favourite healthcare journals? Want to know when articles on your favourite topics are published? The free Read by QxMD app allow you to do just this, and to access many full-text articles with a single tap.

Full-text is available for articles that are available from our subscriptions or where the article is open-access, and you can link to the journal holdings of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust, Staffordshire University or Keele University.

Read by QxMD is available as a desktop version, or for Android and iOS devices. On the mobile version, you can store your OpenAthens account to make downloading available articles even quicker.

Curate your own personalised healthcare journal, and share it with colleagues via email, Facebook and Twitter. Add papers to your own virtual collections, recommend papers, and discuss articles.

Stay ahead of the latest healthcare research and download the Read by QxMD app now.

Changes to downloading e-books

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We offer a collection of over 16,000 e-books on the ProQuest Ebook Central platform and these can either be viewed online, or downloaded to a mobile device for access anywhere.

If you want to download an e-book, you'll now need to install the Adobe Digital Editions app for Android or  iOS. This is a free app, but does require you to register for a free Adobe ID. You'll also need your NHS OpenAthens account to download e-books to your device.

Our guide to downloading e-books gives more details and also explains how to access chapters of e-books on dedicated e-book readers.

Once you've got the app set up, you'll be able to download our e-books to your mobile device for up to 14 days for offline reading. If you need them for longer, simply download them again.

If you already have the Bluefire Reader app installed, this will still work for now.