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)

Library Training Sessions - Jul-Aug

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.

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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