Searches/Tools

Link to pubmed search results and Treatment results

Expert searches and search strategies from OVID (Use NHS OpenAthens to login)

Covid-19 database of curated Medline content – Wolters Kluwer (use Google chrome and OpenAthens to access full text)

Expert searches from EBSCO – expert search strings on the topic of COVID-19 for CINAHL and EBSCO Discovery Service

COVID-19: a living systematic map of the evidence (To access use google Chrome or Microsoft edge)

EPPI-Centre produced an up-to-date map of the current evidence and list of online COVID-19 resources

Trip Database Coronavirus or COVID-19

Evidence searches

The librarians can undertake COVID-19 evidence / literature searches for Trust staff. Complete the online form or send us an email to let us know the details. Request a search

COVID-19 Staff Publications

Information for Patients & Carers

Health Information for Patients

BBC Health News

Hospital admits full responsibility for 24 failures that led to toddler's death

Eleanor Aldred-Owen died after surgery because an abnormal scan was not flagged.

Closing urgent care centres would have 'dire consequences', objectors say

Plan to close three urgent care centres sparks worry about pressure on GPs and emergency departments.

'I was heading for a breakdown, then books saved my life'

Birmingham author Kit de Waal says a chance conversation changed her life after she left home at 16.

Why you should eat kiwi and pineapple skins

Eating fruit and vegetable scraps such as peels and stalks could provide a health boost that most of us are missing, say UK researchers, external.

I gave birth in ambulance on A96 amid staff shortages at local hospital

Hannah Smith was travelling to Aberdeen Maternity Hospital as she could not go to Dr Gray's in Elgin.

'My low Vitamin D levels hit me like a truck'

Saskia Reeves-Priestley didn't know she had a Vitamin D deficiency until she suddenly collapsed at work.

'My low Vitamin D levels hit me like a truck'

Saskia Reeves-Priestley didn't know she had a Vitamin D deficiency until she suddenly collapsed at work.

How major policy shift is changing police response to mental health call-outs

999 calls will be triaged and if there is any risk of harm or to life, or if a crime is involved, the police will still attend.

Heart attack patient, 83, had to drive four hours for hospital appointment

Charles Swift faced a 140-mile round trip to get to a hospital, but had to drive himself.

Biggest fibre boost could be scraps in your bin, experts say

Chomping on vegtable skins, seeds and stalks could give us vital fibre, say food scientists.