Become a reviewer for Wiley and get to keep everything you review

Wiley are looking for nursing, midwifery and healthcare students to provide reviews of their books.  The good part is that you get to keep whatever you have reviewed! If you are interested, sign up at www.reviewnursingbooks.com. Reviewers can specify their areas of interest, and also details of current employment and study, so that you can tailor what you get sent.

Happy Reviewing!

Introducing WHO MiNDbank

If you haven't already seen it, do have a browse over at the World Health Organization's MiNDbank, an online repository with loads of data about mental health, disability, substance abuse and human rights.  It contains resources at international and country level and is a really great information source.  You can find it here.

NICE Evidence scheduled maintenance, 15 October 17:00-18:00

Hello

Just to let you know that the NICE Evidence website will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance on Tuesday 15 October between 5-6pm.

Top 10 most-read articles from Journal of Clinical Nursing

The Journal of Clinical Nursing has posted their most-read articles of all time (as of 2013).  Would it surprise you to learn that the most-downloaded article is ten years old?  If you are intrigued and want to read more, the full list is here.

More resources added to NICE NHS Evidence

If you are a user of NICE NHS Evidence, you'll be pleased to learn that the following resources have now been added to the content:

• Public Health England
• NHS England and NHS Improving Quality
• Inside Government
• Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
• Aidsmap – patient info
• Anaphylaxis Campaign -patient info
• Clinical Molecular Genetics Society – CMGS
• District Councils Network
• Housing Learning and Improvement Network

Happy searching!

 

 

The alternative guide to the new NHS

The King's Fund has produced this ultra-whizzy animation which gives you aa 'alternative' overview of the new NHS structure (watch out for the ministers in their ivory towers).  Not boring and not too long (under 7 minutes), it is well worth a watch.

Child health app

Public Health England has developed an app which provides child health profiles for England. Arranged by local authority, the app gives uses key health indicators to give data about the health and wellbeing of children in England.

Read more here.http://www.chimat.org.uk/profiles/app