Improvement & Innovation

Welcome to Improvement & Innovation Update. Here you can find Books available in the library, latest research, innovation and improvement news and other useful resources.

The library team can provide a literature search or evidence synthesis on any Quality Improvement  projects that Trust staff embark upon. We can offer the following training sessions to search literature for your improvement projects, you can also arrange tailored sessions to suit the needs of a specific team.

  • How to access eJournals and eBooks
  • Finding the Evidence: using NHS Health Care Databases
  • Assistance in conducting Literature Searches
  • Facilitating Critical Appraisal- Qualitative and Quantitative

If you can’t find what you are looking for, we can search and provide the information, Please contact us with your search request or submit the online form. You can also request training sessions to learn how to search the databases.

We have number of resources to support Quality Improvement work.

Some books available in the library

Useful  Resources

Databases

Innovation & Improvement News

Quality Improvement Bulletins

QI Evidence update Feb 24

QI Evidence update Dec 23

QI Evidence update Jul 23

QI Evidence update Jun23

QI Evidence update Apr 2023

QI Evidence update Mar 2023

QI Evidence update Feb23

QI Evidence Update -Jan 2023

Request a Literature search – You can request specific information that you need for your improvement projects by requesting a search, we carry out searches on health care databases and also search grey literature to find out the best available evidence.

Request Training – contact us to book a training session to find evidence based information from health care databases.

See also Leadership Update

Library News

Staff Publications Repository is a database of academic papers published by Trust staff, past and present. If you’ve had a paper published recently, please let us know so we can add it to the Repository. Check here for most cited articles from October publications list

We have a collection of educational board games covering a range of subject matters, which can be used in training sessions and to gain CPD credits. You can play one-on-one or in teams.

Health Information Week 3-9 Jul- To celebrate the week we are organising displays in the library and virtual health literacy  awareness sessions.

Access more than 800 Nursing E-books across Many Nursing Topics. Sign in with your OpenAthens account. 

- Check what you can access with your account

BMJ Best Practice -  You can now access Comorbidities Manager

Evidence Updates and Evidence Summaries- save time and make better decisions

Access CINAHL Ultimate – Collection of Nursing and Allied Health Literature

More News

Access Journals, eBooks, Staff Publications and Point of care Tools (login with OpenAthens)

Search e-journals



DynaMedAccess DynaMed, clinical decision support tool on the Trust intranet without password, access remotely with NHS OpenAthens, download the app to access on mobile devices anywhere. See the quick guide for details.

 

Access BMJ Best Practice, clinical decision support tool on the Trust intranet without password, access remotely with NHS OpenAthens, download the app to access on mobile devices anywhere. See the  user guide for details.


Staff Publications lists:

COVID- 19 Staff Publications

WMUH -2023

CWMH (can download only on the Trust computers)

Institutional Repository of Staff Publications

Latest Health Management Bulletin

BBC News- Health

New figures show the average wait in Wales to have the condition diagnosed is the longest in the UK.
Experts say there is "no strong evidence" the monitors, proven to be effective in managing diabetes, can also help people without the condition.
Jasna Macanovic was sacked after questioning a "risky" dialysis practice championed by ex-colleagues.
How a team of former addicts are trying to stop others from becoming "deaths of despair" in Blackpool.
Thousands were infected with HIV and hepatitis C, in the worst treatment disaster in NHS history.

Accessing Articles
Articles from journals marked in green are freely available or available in print in the library, or are available by using your NHS Athens account. You may need to click on 'Log in with Athens' to get an Athens login box.

If you don't have an NHS Athens account, you can register online, and if you do this on an NHS PC, you'll receive a confirmation email the same day.

Journals marked in orange aren't available online, but we hold print copies in the Library.

Journals marked in red aren't available online or in the Library but we can order articles  via our Inter Library Loan Service. Please contact the library on ext 5968 or email chelwest.library.InfoService@nhs.net for more information.

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