About the NHS

Essential reading for anyone starting a new course in a health related subject, this site from the NHS gives good background information about the NHS, what it is and how it works. The clickable diagram leads you to information about funding, structure, services and how this all relates to patients and the public. There is also a history of the NHS, information about star ratings, waiting times and National Service Frameworks.

Search Medica – search engine just for health

 

Getting swamped by Google? Finding loads of gibberish on the Internet? Take a look at a new search engine, Search Medica. Really nice, easy to use search engine which allows you to look only a websites which have been recommended by GPs. You can also limit your search to evidence, patient information, guidelines and so on. Really useful tool, highly recommended. Produced by Pulse, the GPs newspaper.

Film and Sound Online

Film and Sound Online is the successor to Education Media Online (EMOL).

‘Film & Sound Online is a JISC-funded set of collections of film, video and sound material. Several hundred hours of high-quality material are available for download, either in full or as segments, and can be used freely in learning, teaching and research.’

You can access it with your Athens password.

Body and brain

 

Some useful sites for anyone looking for images or articles about the human body and brain:

Normal anatomy images – a collection on images from the Visible Human Project showing sectional anatomy of the human body. Useful teaching aid.

Brain from top to bottom- articles, animations and more on the brain including emotions, memory, pleasure and pain, from McGill University in Canada.

Atlases of the brain – sections of the human brain, brain stem and spinal cord, from the University of Utah.

Latest Guidelines from Prodigy

Prodigy, the evidence based guidance database has recently added updates in the following topics:

Endometriosis
Hypertension in pregnancy
Insomnia
Opioid dependence
Pelvic inflammatory disease
Urethritis
Urinary tract infection

Take a look at the Prodigy website for more.

Research Ethics in Art, Design and Media

 

The study Research Ethics in Art, Design and Media has published its report. The study was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and took place between September 2005 and July 2006.

The workshop pack can be used in research skills training courses and by individual researchers. It also aims ”to inform and stimulate debate about research ethics in art, design and media”.

Housing

 

The newly created Department for Communities and Local Government (formerly the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) have a new website including a large section on housing and related issues. The housing page looks at lots of different areas including sustainable communities, buying and selling, social housing and housing management.

Also of note, the Social Care Institute for Excellence have published a report on the Impact of Environmental Housing Conditions on the Health and Well Being of Children. This includes details of housing conditions- over one million children in the UK live in housing that is sub-standard or unfit to live in.

New Mental Health Materials

 

New for those interested in mental health conditions:

Depression: a summary- from Prodigy, this latest patient information leaflet (PIL) details depression, its causes, symptoms and treatments.

Assessing and diagnosing ADHD- from the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), this research briefing summarises the current state of knowledge about ADHD and links to more in depth materials.

Deliberate self harm among children and adolescents- also from (SCIE) this research briefing examines who is at risk from self harm and how it can be recognised.

Current Practice Case Studies in Sport – £30 book tokens!

The HEA Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Network publishes case studies providing examples of learning, teaching and assessment methods, taken from practising teachers in the hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism subject areas. Things that have been tried and have worked well with students.

For any published case study you will receive £30 in book tokens!

Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health

 

We now have access to the online version of the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. This can be access via the A-Z journals lists or directly via http://www2.us.elsevierhealth.com/inst/serve?db=home&id=midwom. This journal has its own individual password, so please contact ILS if you would like access.

The site allows access back to 1998 (volume 43). Go along to the link above, and browse the current issue and past issues. You’ll need the username and password (and an Adobe Reader) in order to see full text.