Evidence Updates/Summaries

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

We provide health professionals with evidence reports to inform patient care, service improvement, research activity, clinical teaching

If you need to find high quality evidence with limited time, we are here to help! We will search the health care databases, clinical summary tools and specialist sources, and filter the results based on your specific need. We can also produce evidence summaries for you on a specific topic.

We also produce evidence updates against Trust priorities and other emerging areas of interest within the Trust. See below topics that we have produced.

Antibiotic Adminstration in Sepsis 2022(evidence summary)

Accidental Falls Evidence Summary (evidence summary)

Recognition and management of Sepsis  (evidence update) 

Contact us if you want evidence update or evidence summary of a topic.

Library News & What’s new

Library Relocation and Book Sale Announcement

Later this year, the West Middlesex Hospital Library will be relocating to a smaller space within the Diagnostic, Treatment and Education Centre (DTEC). As a result of this move, the library will be selling a large portion of its book stock.

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Library Relocation: Print journal holdings available for free

 The Westmid Library will move to the new Diagnostic, Treatment and Education Centre (DTEC) building later this year. Because the new space is much smaller, we will be disposing of our print journal collection. Before that happens, we invite staff, teams, and departments to take any individual journals or entire sets from our holdings free of charge. For a complete list of available journals, please contact us. You are also welcome to visit the library in the Education Centre to browse our print collection. We are open Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.

Health & Wellbeing Collection

Our wellbeing collection has a range of self-help and mood-boosting-books for library members to borrow. Books includes:

  • Mindfulness
  • Stress and Anxiety Management
  • Emotional Resilience
  • Meditation
  • Yoga, Pilates & Tai Chi
  • Healthy Eating

Access full list of  Health & Wellbeing Book Collection

We also have a range of resources to help staff to relax and stay healthy, including on-going jigsaw puzzles, colouring books and colouring pencils to help staff to relax and de-stress, so feel free to pop in and do a bit of jigsaw and colouring.

Board Games

We have a collection of educational board games which can be used in training sessions and to gain CPD credits. Below board games recently added to our existing collection.

Menopause Game

Team resilience game

Dysphagia game

Hydration game

Mental health at work  Map game

Mental health awareness

LGBT+ in the workplace game

Safeguarding game

If you’re interested in borrowing these board games for your CPD or training or if you have any questions please email chelwest.library.infoservice@nhs.net

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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 -2025

CWMH (can download only on the Trust computers)

Institutional Repository of Staff Publications

Latest Health Management Bulletin

BBC News – Health

Government his its interim target of 65% of patients in England being treated within 18 weeks.
Just how bad for you is eating sugar? And why is fruit still a good option - even though it has lots of sugar?
Wegovy and Mounjaro are available to certain patients on the NHS, and can also be bought privately.
Action on Salt & Sugar said people should not be exposed to a "hidden health risk every time they buy lunch".
A report by a cross-party group of MPs has found the majority of skin cancer cases are preventable.

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10:00 am Health Literacy Awareness @ Virtual
Health Literacy Awareness @ Virtual
May 15 @ 10:00 am – 10:30 am
The library also offers a number of virtual one-to-one or small group training sessions. To book your place on a course contact the Library. This session will provide learners with a useful introduction to the concept of health literacy and
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10:00 am Appraising Research Papers for B... @ Virtual
Appraising Research Papers for B... @ Virtual
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10:00 am Appraising Research for beginner... @ Library, Education Centre
Appraising Research for beginner... @ Library, Education Centre
May 28 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
All group and individual training will take place remotely via MS Teams, or face-to-face by appointment with the library trainer. To book your place on a course contact the Library. Learners are required to read a prescribed research paper in
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2:00 pm Finding the Evidence: Searching ... @ Virtual
Finding the Evidence: Searching ... @ Virtual
Jun 2 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The library also offers a number of virtual one-to-one or small group training sessions. To book your place on a course contact the Library. This session will equip learners with the skills to formulate an effective database search strategy and
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2:00 pm Health Literacy Awareness @ Virtual
Health Literacy Awareness @ Virtual
Jun 4 @ 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
The library also offers a number of virtual one-to-one or small group training sessions. To book your place on a course contact the Library. This session will provide learners with a useful introduction to the concept of health literacy and
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2:00 pm Appraising Research Papers for B... @ Virtual
Appraising Research Papers for B... @ Virtual
Jun 11 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
The library offers a number of virtual one-to-one or small group training sessions. To book your place on a course contact the Library. Not all published research is reliable! If you want to be confident reading and utilising published research
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2:00 pm Appraising Research for beginner... @ Library, Education Centre
Appraising Research for beginner... @ Library, Education Centre
Jun 24 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
All group and individual training will take place remotely via MS Teams, or face-to-face by appointment with the library trainer. To book your place on a course contact the Library. Learners are required to read a prescribed research paper in
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25
Thu
10:00 am Finding the Evidence: Searching ... @ Virtual
Finding the Evidence: Searching ... @ Virtual
Jun 25 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
The library offers a number of virtual one-to-one or small group training sessions. To book your place on a course contact the Library.  This session will equip learners with the skills to formulate an effective database search strategy and to search