Current awareness sources

Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH)

A collaborative service provided by librarians from around England who monitor and capture content from across 3 broad sectors - Primary Care, Secondary Care and Mental Health.

Horizon Scanning Centre - University of Birmingham (by speciality)

Horizon Scanning Bulletins are produced by NHS Librarians across the North West and are quality-assured by experts in the field to ensure high quality information. They support the commissioning process and service redesign, bringing together new and emerging information on:

best practice
innovation
future risk factors

The service provides an easily digestible monthly email update of key and relevant information and examples of new or developing services in other NHS organisations, and transferable examples from other sectors. There are currently 19 bulletins available and by clicking on the name of the bulletin in the list below you can visit the individual bulletin:

Alcohol
Breast Feeding
Cancer
Cardiology
Child Health
Child Mental Health
COPD

Dementia
Dental Health
Diabetes 2
Diagnostics
End of Life Care
Falls Prevention

Immunisation
Infection Control
Obesity
Orthopaedics
Patient Safety
Stroke

What Our Library Users Are Saying...

"Apprentices now have greater access to resources, not only at College or University but in the workplace. The benefits are not solely logistical; the resources and services available to them via the Library & Knowledge Service are current, relevant and varied."

"The library provided me with the evidence base to support a service development of developing a early discharge detox policy. This has improved patient clinical outcomes. This also reduces length of stay and re-attendance at A&E."

"Literature searches carried out by the library staff assisted in the development of a new education program for unregistered staff in response to the Francis report."

"The library carried out a literature search and provided my team with a wealth of relevant information from a variety of different sources that we were able to use within our poster presentation."

"The information I receive has a positive impact in my role as a Non-Executive Director. Over the past year in post I have found the library alerting service to be an invaluable resource it is a great way to be kept informed via the on-line platform that I can access at times to suit."