Online resource to support patient and public involvement in healthcare

A comprehensive collection of current knowledge and evidence about patient and public involvement in healthcare is now available in the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Specialist Library run by the King’s Fund for the National Library for Health.

Managers, researchers and students will be able to access, free of charge, all the latest information on user involvement in areas such as policy development and self-care, and on strengthening NHS accountability to patients and to local communities.

The aim of the PPI Specialist Library is to support the implementation of patient, user, carer and public involvement in health care by providing access, in one location, to the best information available.

Visit the Patient and Public Involvement Specialist Library
Read the King's Fund press release

NKW for Foundation Doctors

The National Library for Health's Emergency Care Specialist Library is running a National Knowledge Week for Foundation Year Doctors starting on 30th July 2007. The aim of this week is to provide new doctors with key facts that they should know, particularly in situations where they may be having to act on their own before they summon help. We are focussing on 5 topic areas this year:

Pain

Chest Pain

Pulmonary Embolus

Collapse

Modified Early Warning Scores (MEWS) / Clinical Risk Stratification

For each of these topics we will present an A4 page or two of information consisting of

- 10 single line learning points

- A couple of paragraphs of more detailed information

- Links to important sources of further information

The knowledge week will be available from 30th July 2007 at http://www.library.nhs.uk/emergency

The topics are being prepared by the following authors:

- Jaydip Banerjee, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Leicester Royal Infirmary
- Anthony Bleetman, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
- Matthew Cooke, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
- Nick Jenkins, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust
- Andrew Newton, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Weston General Hospital
- Stewart McMorran, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Kettering General Hospital

"The application of what we know from research, from experience, and through the analysis of data will have a bigger impact on health and healthcare than any single drug or technology likely to be introduced in the next decade." Sir Muir Gray, Director of the National Library for Health, 2006