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Clinical Effectiveness Bulletin no. 49, February 2011

Click here to access the bulletin This bulletin is produced by the North Staffordshire NHS Outreach Library and Information Service for Primary Care Trusts in North Staffordshire. It aims to draw attention to some of the key documents and reviews on clinical effectiveness that have been published in the previous month. Sources covered include NHS Evidence, Bandolier, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund.

Campus Library Counters Closures

The Main Service and Short Loan Counters (Campus Library) will be closed for staff training as follows:   15 March: 09:30 – 10:30   17 March: 14:15 – 15:15 During these times please use the Self-Service points.  These are located in the Entrance Foyer and Short Loan areas. Please see the Campus Library website for details about opening hours .

New Books for February 2011

Have a look at the latest new titles that have been added to the Library Catalogue during February. These include: Advance care planning: national guidelines / Royal College of Physicians of London Introductory guide to NHS finance in the UK / Anna Green Making public services management critical / edited by Graeme Currie, Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding and Mark Learmouth Putting commissioning into practice: implementing practice based commissioning through good financial management / Audit Commission Should primary care trusts be made more locally accountable? A King's Fund discussion paper / Ruth Thorlby, Richard Lewis and Jennifer Dixon.

Healthcare Databases for NHS Staff

If you want to search for information across a range of journals or are looking to do your own literature search then you need to check out the NHS Evidence Healthcare Databases Advanced Search or HDAS. This provides you with: A single interface to search across a number of databases including Medline, Cinahl, PsychInfo and others Thesaurus searching to help focus your search Limiting parameters such as publication date, type of patient or type of publication to help you to get the most up-to-date, relevant information Export options to save, email or print your results HDAS Search Box To get access to HDAS either log on with your NHS Athens username and password at www.library.nhs.uk or see the Healthcare Resources page on the Health Library website . For more help in using NHS databases see our online help sheet  and guides If you want more assistance to get the most out of this resource you could attend our training course on Literature Searching with NHS databases . Why n