Looking for good reliable health information online? These resources will give you a good starting point. www.nhs.uk NHS.uk is the UK’s biggest health website A-Z of conditions and treatments Healthy living advice with interactive health tools, podcasts plus the NHS Health Apps and Health & Care Video
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Available via OpenAthens this resource offers full text to over 2 million articles and 1000+ books. The images available can be used in teaching presentations and can be downloaded into Powerpoint complete with the citation about where the image is from. Saved content and presentations
Read more →ClinicalKey have added a Vaccine Toolkit to the resource of information they have made available. Please note this currently reflects US information. They will continue to update the toolkit as more vaccines becomes available and as more is known; we will update with UK information as soon
Read more →Health Information Week 2020 takes place 6th to 10th July. Do you know which websites you can trust to provide you with good reliable health information? Check out the library services online poll via twitter @SASHLibs , the library website www.surreyandsussexlibraryservices.nhs.uk or pop into either library to
Read more →Macmillan Cancer Support have created information to support cancer patients and their carers about a range of concerns about Covid19. Information includes symptoms of Coronavirus, home isolation and advice for family or carers about care within the home. https://www.macmillan.org.uk/coronavirus/cancer-and-coronavirus
Read more →Designed to assist staff working with patients, migrants and asylum seekers, Doctors of the World have created a set of patient guides about Coronavirus (Covid19) in 34 languages (which currently exceeds what they say on their logo!). The complete list of languages available is: English, Albanian, Amharic,
Read more →Enjoy July with Health Information Week! From Monday 1st-Sunday 7th July the library and knowledge services team will be: Raising awareness of good evidence based sources of patient information Promoting our reading well collections. Tweeting activities and information via @SASHLibs on Twitter. Promoting information outside the Three Arches Restaurant
Read more → Health Information Week (HIW) is an annual, multi-sector campaign to promote the use of good quality health resources that are available to the public. It is endorsed and supported by Health Education England, NHS England, the Society of Chief Librarians and Public Health England. As patients areRead more →
Evidently Cochrane – aims to make Cochrane reviews accessible and promote discussion via weekly Blog posts. At certain times, extra Blogs are created to link up with special events (eg the London Marathon) and four times a year there are special campaign weeks with multiple Blogs. The
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