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The librarians and knowledge specialists at the Sussex Library & Knowledge Service can save you time and inform your practice. We supply the evidence base to support decision making and help you find the answers to questions on treatment, care, safety, commissioning, and policy.
Below are anonymised evidence search reports that we’ve recently provided for health professionals in Sussex. Click on the title to see the report, which includes links to the full text of included articles*.
To request your own evidence search, contact us at: spnt.
*You may need an NHS OpenAthens account to access some articles; register for OpenAthens
Clozapine is one of the medications that has been evaluated for the treatment of severe BPD, in particular for the reduction of psychotic-like symptoms, self-injurious behaviour, and violence and aggression. A recent systematic review (Han 2023) concludes that "There may be a role for clozapine in treating severe treatment refractory BPD, especially for those patients at high risk of suicide and frequent hospitalisations."
What is the evidence for use of Goal Based Outcomes with people with learning disabilities?
No research directly addressing use of Goal-Based Outcomes with people with Learning Disability was found. This evidence search report includes a small number of research articles and the GBO Tool Guidance Notes, which state that "The goal-based outcome (GBO) tool can be used in any setting that is change-focused and goal-oriented.”
This evidence search report includes systematic reviews and original research on staff training in Positive Behaviour Support when working with individuals with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour.
Effectiveness of CBT for insomnia in group format
This evidence search report includes systematic reviews and original research on group CBT for insomnia.
The harm or risks associated with delayed waiting for access to treatment and delay in discharge
This search report includes guidance, systematic reviews and original research on the topic of delayed access to and discharge from mental health services.
Pros and cons of single vs mixed sex acute psychiatric wards
This evidence search report includes guidance, reports and original research on the topic of single-sex versus mixed-sex psychiatric inpatient wards. Most of the evidence found relates to inpatient safety and satisfaction.
We now have electronic access to the journal Advances in Dual Diagnosis. Access is from 2008 to current, and requires a Sussex Partnership NHS OpenAthens account. Register free at https://
See all issues of this journal at https://
We also have a subscription to PMLD LINK. You can access all issues of this journal, as well as other resources for supporting people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, at https://
Contact the library at spnt.
For so long LGBT+ people’s history was hidden. Following the repeal of Section 28, UK LGBT+ History Month was created to claim our past, celebrate our present, and create our future.
The 2024 theme celebrates LGBT+ peoples’ contribution to the field of Medicine and Healthcare both historically and today.
Find out more about LGBT+ History Month 2024 at:
https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/lgbt-history-month-2024
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The Sussex Health Library & Knowledge Service has a range of books on LGBT+ issues, see a list of titles at LGBTQ+ › KSS Knowledge & Library Services catalogue (koha-ptfs.co.uk)
As we say goodbye to colleagues in Hampshire who are leaving Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, we want to highlight the Library and Knowledge Services that are available to Southern Health NHS FT and Surrey and Borders Partnership FT.
Hampshire Healthcare Library Service provides library services to staff at Southern Health. With libraries across Hampshire you’re never far from a library, and they provide a remote service too – please contact them to find out how they can help.
Frimley Health Library & Knowledge Service provides library services to staff at Surrey and Borders. Contact Frimley Park Library to find out more.
Both HHLS and FHLKS use KnowledgeShare to manage current awareness services to library members, so if you already receive current awareness alerts from KnowledgeShare your account will be transferred to your new Library and Knowledge Service for you.
We wish you well in your new organisation!
The librarians and knowledge specialists at the Sussex Library & Knowledge Service can save you time and inform your practice. We supply the evidence base to support decision making and help you find the answers to questions on treatment, care, safety, commissioning, and policy.
Below are anonymised evidence search reports that we’ve recently provided for health professionals in Sussex. Click on the title to see the report, which includes links to the full text of included articles*.
To request your own evidence search, contact us at: spnt.
*You may need an NHS OpenAthens account to access some articles; register for OpenAthens
Effective interventions to reduce the impact of vicarious trauma
This evidence search report focusses on effective interventions to reduce the impact of vicarious trauma in the mainly administrative type of workplace or home working, e.g. online content reviewers. Blueprint results are needed from a range of diverse industries in order to devise a strategy from services where staff review harmful material and how they manage to keep themselves well as part of this process.
Psychological therapy groups for patients with psychosis
This evidence search looked for recent research on psychological therapy groups for patients with psychosis. The results include systematic reviews and original research articles.
This search attempted to locate evidence that explores the impacts of a range of themes (including gender differences) around male CSA.
Experiences of transgender, non-binary, and intersex people in healthcare settings
This evidence search looked for information about experiences of transgender, non-binary, and intersex people in healthcare settings, both as patients and as staff. Search results include guidance, systematic reviews, and original research articles.
This is a selection of new titles recently added to our stock. To see all our print and electronic books visit the Kent, Surrey and Sussex NHS Libraries' catalogue
A handbook for trainee nursing associates edited by Neil Davison and David Matthews, 2023
Electronic access: Kortext | EPUB Reader
Dialectical behavior therapy in clinical practice: applications across disorders and settings 2nd edition edited by Linda A. Dimeff, Shireen L. Rizvi, Kelly Koerner, 2023
Available at Mill View Hospital Library, Hove: WM 425.DB DIM Dialectical behavior therapy in clinical practice: applications across disorders and settings / › KSS Knowledge & Library Services catalogue (koha-ptfs.co.uk)
Health psychology 7th edition by Jane Ogden, 2023
Available at Mill View Hospital Library, Hove: WLM 120 OGD Health psychology / › KSS Knowledge & Library Services catalogue (koha-ptfs.co.uk)
Is this autism?: a guide for clinicians and everyone else by Donna Henderson, Sarah Wayland and Jamell White, 2023
Available at Mill View Hospital Library, Hove: WM 203.5 HEN Is this autism?: a guide for clinicians and everyone else / › KSS Knowledge & Library Services catalogue (koha-ptfs.co.uk)
Teaching made easy: a manual for health professionals 4th edition by Kay Mohanna, Elizabeth Cottrell, David Wall, et al., 2023
Available at Mill View Hospital Library, Hove & Health Sciences Library, Worthing: W 18 MOH Teaching made easy: a manual for health professionals / › KSS Knowledge & Library Services catalogue (koha-ptfs.co.uk)
The prevention and management of violence: guidance for mental healthcare professionals 2nd edition edited by Masum Khwaja and Peter Tyrer, 2023
Available at Mill View Hospital Library, Hove: WM 40 KHW The prevention and management of violence : guidance for mental healthcare professionals / › KSS Knowledge & Library Services catalogue (koha-ptfs.co.uk)
Using psychodynamic thinking to enhance CBT in clients with psychosis: a case study guide by Simon Jakes, 2023
Available at Mill View Hospital Library, Hove: WM 435.CB JAK Using psychodynamic thinking to enhance CBT in clients with psychosis : a case study guide / › KSS Knowledge & Library Services catalogue (koha-ptfs.co.uk)
Working with serious mental illness: a manual for clinical practice 3rd edition edited by Catherine Gamble and Geoff Brennan, 2023
Available at Crawley Hospital Library & Mill View Hospital Library, Hove: WM 200 GAM Working with serious mental illness: a manual for clinical practice / › KSS Knowledge & Library Services catalogue (koha-ptfs.co.uk)
Our September-October information skills teaching programme is now available for bookings at Information skills teaching - Library (bsuh.nhs.uk)
Sessions scheduled include Finding Quality Health Information, How to Read Qualitative Research, Facilitating a Journal Club, Using Endnote, Writing for Publication, and more.
We offer a blend of on-site and online scheduled teaching sessions. On-site teaching takes place in our dedicated rooms in the libraries at Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton and the Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath. Places for these are limited due to social-distancing guidance. Access to online sessions uses tools such as Microsoft Teams. You will be contacted with more details when you book onto a specific session.
Evidence searches of the month
The librarians and knowledge specialists at the Sussex Library & Knowledge Service can save you time and inform your practice. We supply the evidence base to support decision making and help you find the answers to questions on treatment, care, safety, commissioning, and policy.
Below are anonymised evidence search reports that we’ve recently provided for health professionals in Sussex. Click on the title to see the report, which includes links to the full text of included articles*.
To request your own evidence search, contact us at: spnt.
*You may need an NHS OpenAthens account to access some articles; register for OpenAthens
Neuropsychology journal articles on young onset dementia
This search looked for original research articles on the neuropsychological aspects of young-onset dementia.
Learning disability and self harm
This evidence search report includes original research papers on self harm in adults with learning disabilities.
This evidence search looked for reports of audits and service evaluations of clozapine clinics in the UK. Results include institutional publications and original research publications.
Barriers to engaging military veterans in therapy
This evidence search looks at the use of mental health services by military veterans. Results include systematic reviews and original research articles.
Offender Personality Disorder and Occupational Therapy
This evidence search report contains systematic reviews and original research articles on offender personality disorder pathways and projects used to help ex-offenders regain social functioning, rejoin the community and eventually employment.
Reducing drug related death and suicides
This evidence search is a scoping review aimed at health improvement professionals for substance misuse and mental health. It focusses on drug- and alcohol-related death and suicide and what works for reducing them.
Monday 3 – Sunday 9 July 2023 is Health Information Week.
Health Information Week is a national, multi-sector campaign to promote high quality information for patients and the public. High quality health information can have a huge impact on people’s ability to stay healthy and manage illnesses effectively, giving them a better quality of life.
This year the themes of Health Information Week are:
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Monday 3rd July – Health Literacy
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Tuesday 4th July – Mental Health and Wellbeing
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Wednesday 5th July – Women’s Health
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Thursday 6th July – Social Prescribing
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Friday 7th July – Children’s Health
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Saturday 8th July – Cost of Living
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Sunday 9th July – Shared Decision Making
Follow @Healthinfoweek and #HIW2023 on Twitter to find out more.
In keeping with Tuesday's theme of Mental Health and Wellbeing, we have put together a list of useful resources:
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Information about Mental Health and Wellbeing
Your public library is committed to supporting your health and wellbeing. Libraries promote healthy living and provide self-management support for everyone through information and signposting, such as Reading Well. They also offer a range of creative and social activities which connect people, combat loneliness and improve wellbeing. Visit your local library website or visit your nearest library in person to find out how to join and what’s on offer.
NHS: Better Health – Every Mind Matters. Advice and practical tips to help people look after their mental health and wellbeing. Includes a section for young people: www.
NHS: Mental Health. Information and support for your mental health: www.nhs.uk/mental-health
Mind. Advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem, including content for children and young people: www.mind.org.uk Mind Cymru is Mind in Wales: www.
Mental Health Foundation. Mental health information and advice: www.mentalhealth.org.uk
Rethink Mental Illness. Information and support via a network of local groups and services: www.rethink.org
For children and young people
The Children's Society. Information, tips and activities for young people to help improve wellbeing: www.
Young Minds. Supports children and young people on their mental health including practical tips and advice from young people, as well as information on getting support: www.youngminds.org.uk
On My Mind (Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families). Information co-produced with young people to empower young people to make informed choices about their mental health and wellbeing. Content is available in Welsh: www.
The Mix. Support and information for under 25s on any challenges they may be facing: www.themix.org.uk
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Resources
Reading Well. Supports you to understand and manage your health and wellbeing using helpful reading. There are Reading Well schemes for Adult mental health, Teens, Children. All books are recommended by health experts, as well as people with lived experience. You can be recommended a title by a health professional, or you can visit your local library and take a book out yourself for free: www.reading-well.org.uk / www.
Your Health Collection: resources to support users of health and prison libraries to understand and manage their health. The collection of 10 books and 30 digital resources are accessible, inclusive and reflect the diversity of society: www.
Red Cross wellbeing resource pack. Activities to build resilience, cope with worries, and connect with others: www.
Mindfulness exercises and tips from Mind, including links to mobile apps that can help you practise mindfulness: www.mind.org.uk/information-support/drugs-and-treatments/mindfulness/mindfulness-exercises-tips
For young people
Mood Move and Clear Fear are evidence-based mobile apps developed for teenage mental health charity stem4 by Dr Nihara Krause and feature on the Reading Well for teens list. www.movemood.co.uk / www.clearfear.co.uk
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Podcasts
BBC Radio 4: ‘All in the Mind’ www.
BBC: ‘Access All: Disability News and Mental Health’ www.
‘The Mind podcast’ www.
Mental Health Foundation: ‘Let’s Talk: Mental Health’ www.
Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families: ‘Child in Mind’. A series of expert podcasts to help parents understand and manage child and family mental health problems www.
Nurse leadership and management by Joyce J Fitzpatrick and Celeste M Alfes, 2023
Electronic access: Kortext | EPUB Reader
Motivational interviewing in health care : helping patients change behavior 2nd edition by Stephen Rollnick, William R Miller and Christopher C Butler, 2023
Available at Mill View Hospital Library, Hove: WLM 485 ROL Motivational interviewing in health care : helping patients change behavior / › KSS Knowledge & Library Services catalogue (koha-ptfs.co.uk)
The pocket guide to critical appraisal : a handbook for health care professionals 2nd edition by Iain K Crombie, 2023
Available at Royal Sussex County Hospital Library, Brighton & Eastbourne District General Hospital Library, Eastbourne: WX 152 CRO The pocket guide to critical appraisal : a handbook for health care professionals / › KSS Knowledge & Library Services catalogue (koha-ptfs.co.uk)
Oxford professional practice : handbook of medical leadership and management by Paula Murphy, Peter Lachman and Bradley Hillier, 2023
Available at Royal Sussex County Hospital Library, Brighton: WX 200 MUR Oxford professional practice : handbook of medical leadership and management / › KSS Knowledge & Library Services catalogue (koha-ptfs.co.uk)
Oxford professional practice : handbook of patient safety by Peter Lachman, Jane Runnacles, Anita Jayadev, John Brennan, and John Fitzsimons, 2022
Electronic access: Oxford Professional Practice: Handbook of Patient Safety | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
Psychiatric drugs explained 7th edition by David Healy, 2022
Available at Mill View Hospital Library, Hove & Dunhill Library, Chichester: QV 77 HEA Psychiatric drugs explained / › KSS Knowledge & Library Services catalogue (koha-ptfs.co.uk)
Structured clinical management (SCM) for personality disorder : an implementation guide by Stuart Mitchell, Marc Sampson and Anthony Bateman, 2022
Available at Mill View Hospital Library, Hove: WM 190 MIT Structured clinical management (SCM) for personality disorder : an implementation guide / › KSS Knowledge & Library Services catalogue (koha-ptfs.co.uk)
Cognitive-behavioral therapy of addictive disorders by Bruce S Liese and Aaron T Beck, 2022
Available at Mill View Hospital Library, Hove: WM 270 LIE Cognitive-behavioral therapy of addictive disorders / › KSS Knowledge & Library Services catalogue (koha-ptfs.co.uk)
Autism spectrum disorder in the criminal justice system : a guide to understanding suspects, defendants and offenders with autism by Clare S Allely, 2022
Available at Mill View Hospital Library, Hove: WM 203.5 ALL Autism spectrum disorder in the criminal justice system : a guide to understanding suspects, defendants and offenders with autism / › KSS Knowledge & Library Services catalogue (koha-ptfs.co.uk)
May 15th - 21st is Mental Health Awareness Week. This year, the focus of the week is anxiety. Read the Mental Health Foundation’s blog about why they have chosen anxiety as this year’s theme, and find resources on helping people with anxiety at Anxiety UK.
On Thursday, Library Services staff took part in #WearItGreenDay to help raise awareness of the Mental Health Foundation’s work to help make change happen and achieve good mental health for all.
Here are some of the books held in our libraries on anxiety. Click on the images to see our catalogue holdings, or search the Kent, Surrey and Sussex NHS Libraries’ catalogue for more resources.
Follow the Mental Health Foundation on Twitter @mentalhealth and follow the hashtag #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek to find out more.
Follow us @SPFT_LKS and visit our webpages for more information.
The librarians and knowledge specialists at the Sussex Library & Knowledge Service can save you time and inform your practice. We supply the evidence base to support decision making and help you find the answers to questions on treatment, care, safety, commissioning, and policy.
Below are anonymised evidence search reports that we’ve recently provided for health professionals in Sussex. Click on the title to see the report, which includes links to the full text of included articles*.
To request your own evidence search, contact us at: spnt.
*You may need an NHS OpenAthens account to access some articles; register for OpenAthens.
Recovery practice for older adults
Recovery orientated practice can enhance wellbeing, hope, autonomy and connectedness, though staff need clear implementation support to embed the recovery model into clinical practice.
Skills for working with people with suicidal ideation - Suicide interventions
This search looked for guidance and research papers on interventions for people at risk of suicide. The search report includes evidence on trauma-informed suicide interventions, strengths-based approaches in suicide interventions and psychological intervention manuals for suicidality.
Skills for working with people with suicidal ideation – Neurodiversity
This search looked for guidance and research papers on working with neurodivergent people who are suicidal.
Skills for working with people with suicidal ideation - Chronic suicidality
This evidence search report includes guidance and research papers on working with people who are chronically suicidal.
Skills for working with people with suicidal ideation - Impact on staff mental health
This search looked for guidance and research papers on working with people at risk of suicide and the impact on the mental health and wellbeing of staff.
Correlation on brain function between dementia and ADHD/Dyslexia
ADHD has long been associated with young people, but now recent research is pointing to whether children diagnosed with ADHD may be at greater risk of dementia in later life. The papers included in this evidence search report examine if there is a link.
Impact of the implementation of electronic patient record systems on clinical staff
This evidence search report includes international research on the impact of introducing EPR systems on the wellbeing of clinical staff.
The librarians and knowledge specialists at the Sussex Library & Knowledge Service can save you time and inform your practice. We supply the evidence base to support decision making and help you find the answers to questions on treatment, care, safety, commissioning, and policy.
Below are anonymised evidence search reports that we’ve recently provided for health professionals in Sussex. Click on the title to see the report, which includes links to the full text of included articles*.
To request your own evidence search, contact us at: spnt.
*You may need an NHS OpenAthens account to access some articles; register for OpenAthens
Mental health/wellbeing struggles in Ukrainian medical students following the 2022 conflict with Russia
This is a broad evidence search for a new training course for social workers working with children and adolescents with, or at risk of, suicidal ideation/ behaviours and their families.
How to manage PTSD in a perpetrator of manslaughter
This evidence search report includes systematic reviews, book chapters and research articles on perpetrator trauma.
Benefits of yoga on veterans with PTSD
This search looks at publications from the last ten years. A significant number of U.S. trial protocols were retrieved, but the majority of these were either not undertaken, completed, or further reported on.
Educating the workforce on dementia and delirium
This evidence search report covers education and training, dementia-specific roles, clinical leads, and environment changes. It also aims to gather evidence on a collective social education approach to improving both nurses' knowledge of, and screening for, delirium.
Occupational therapy and motivation in mental health
This evidence search report includes papers on motivation in mental health from an occupational therapy perspective.
Therapeutic groups for men with anti-social personality traits in the community
This evidence search report covers men aged from 18-65 and includes papers on mentalisation-based therapy for violent individuals in the community setting.
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Discovery through activity: ideas and resources for applying recovery through activity in practice Sue Parkinson 2022 Electronic access: Kortext | PDF Reader
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Creative mindfulness techniques for clinical trauma work: insights and applications for mental health practitioners Corinna M Costello 2022 Print: Hove: Mill View Hospital WM 172 COS
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Technological addictions Petros Levounis and James Sherer 2022 Print: Hove: Mill View Hospital WM 260 LEV
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Mixed-methods research in wellbeing and health Rachel Locke and Amanda Lees 2022 Print: Haywards Heath: Princess Royal Hospital H 62 and Hove: Mill View Hospital HM 20 LOC
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Cognitive-behavior interventions for self-defeating thoughts: helping clients to overcome the tyranny of "I can't" Elliot D Cohen 2022 Print: Hove: Mill View Hospital WLM 310 COH
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Kaplan and Sadock's synopsis of psychiatry Robert Boland and Marcia L Verduin, consulting editor Pedro Ruiz 2022 12th edition Print: Hove: Mill View Hospital WM 100 BOL Electronic access: Kortext | EPUB Reader
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Introduction to psychoanalysis: contemporary theory and practice Anthony W Bateman, Jeremy Holmes and Elizabeth Allison 2022 2nd edition Print: Hove: Mill View Hospital WM 460 BAT
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See all our print and electronic books in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex NHS Libraries' catalogue
New to the library service at Mill View Hospital from 1 May 2022 are our first two job-sharing librarians Amy Dunn and Sally Reynolds, who will be sharing the role of Mental Health Specialist Librarian.
Amy has been in this role for many years, and will now be reducing her hours to work Wednesdays to Fridays.
Sally will be transferring from her previous role as a Clinical Librarian working with Children and Women’s Services in Brighton, and will be covering Mondays and Tuesdays in her new role.
This two-person team is sure to bring a new dynamic, with better coverage of hours during periods of leave, greater combination of searching skills, and a pooling of many years’ experience in different NHS libraries combined into the one role.
Do feel free to drop in and see us in the Sussex Education Centre Library at Mill View Hospital, and ask us how we can support you.
You can contact Sally and Amy at uhsussex.
On 31 March 2022, NICE will decommission HDAS (Healthcare Databases Advanced Search).
Following this, access to the individual bibliographic healthcare databases will be via the provider platforms Ovid, EBSCO and Proquest using your usual OpenAthens login (Register for an OpenAthens account here).
| Service | Databases |
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| Ovid | AMED, HMIC, Embase, Emcare, Medline |
| EBSCOhost | CINAHL, Medline |
| ProQuest | BNI, Medline, PsycInfo |
Transferring your saved alerts and searches
If you have any saved alerts in HDAS, these will stop running after 31 March 2022. Any search strategies and results you have saved in HDAS will be deleted. To prepare for this transition, see the following guides:
- How to export from HDAS: Video guide to exporting HDAS data
- Transferring your searches to Ovid: Video guide by Tom Roper
- Transferring your searches to EBSCO and Proquest: Video guide by Tom Roper
Inter Faith Week is 14-21 November 2021, led by The Inter Faith Network, which works to promote understanding, cooperation and good relations between organisations and persons of different faiths in the UK.
People work best when they feel that they can bring their whole selves to the work place. Where people feel that they are welcomed and that inclusion of faith or belief is apparent, it can have a positive impact on a person’s wellbeing and approach to work and colleagues.
Read more and see a list of books available in our libraries on this document
Oxford Medicine Online
We now have a collection of 120+ electronic books from Oxford University Press, available to all NHS staff and students in England. The collection consists of Handbooks, Textbooks and “Emergencies in…” titles.
To access the collection, click here, select ‘Sign in via your Institution’, choose ‘NHS in England’ from the list of institutions and sign in with your OpenAthens account.
Kortext
Also available is a collection of electronic books on the Kortext platform. To access these titles, click here, select ‘Sign in to browse your institution library’, search for ‘Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’ and then sign in with your OpenAthens account.
The Reading Agency and Health Education England have crowd-sourced an uplifting book collection and a supporting list of digital resources, all recommended by NHS staff, for NHS staff.
All the books were recommended via a survey of NHS staff, and the final list selected by a panel of NHS staff. The book collection contains fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
A supporting collection of uplifting digital resources, including poems, websites, videos and apps, is also available here. These can be used via any computer or mobile device.
Here’s a selection of resources to support staff resilience and wellbeing.
An NHS OpenAthens password is required to access electronic resources. You can register at openathens.nice.org.uk
Journals
Evidence searches
We provide evidence to inform patient care, service improvement, research and clinical teaching. Recent searches we’ve provided include:
- The teaching or training of resilience in health care workers
- What is the perception of Newly Qualified Nurses in relation to being equipped with resilience?
- Wellbeing and mental health in the workplace
- Psychological and organisational interventions for physician burnout
- Impact of communication styles on leadership or task completion in staff and wellbeing
Web and other resources
- NHS Health Education England: Workforce Stress and the Supportive Organisation: A framework for improvement through reflection, curiosity, and change. A new framework aimed at helping health and social care employers improve the mental wellbeing of their employees has been launched by Health Education England (HEE):
- MIND: How to improve your mental wellbeing. Explains how to improve and maintain your mental wellbeing, whether you have a diagnosis of a mental health condition or not.
- MIND: How to manage stress. Explains what stress is, what might cause it and how it can affect you. Includes information about ways you can help yourself and how to get support.
- Mental Health Foundation: Emotional Resilience Toolkit. This toolkit provides practical guidance in promoting the resilience of individuals and teams in companies as part of an integrated health and wellbeing programme.
- Mental Health Foundation: How to look after your mental health using mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of paying attention to the present moment, using techniques like meditation, breathing and yoga. It helps us become more aware of our thoughts and feelings so that, instead of being overwhelmed by them, we’re better able to manage them. Mindfulness can be used as a tool to manage your wellbeing and mental health.
- Mental Health Foundation: How to manage and reduce stress. This gives you an introduction to what stress is, what the signs of stress are, what simple steps you can take when feeling stressed and provide practical advice for preventing it.
Contact us for further information.
Across the country, NHS library and knowledge services are working with therapists and managers to inform the response to Covid-19. Here in Sussex, we have already provided evidence reviews for staff on a range of topics, including:
- How to make virtual groups safe and effective for people accessing mental health services
- The impact of Covid-19 on mortality of people with a learning disability
- Impacts of Covid-19 on perceptions and attitudes towards physical activity and wellbeing
- Impacts of Covid-19 on LGBTQ+ communities
- Advice on mental wellbeing during social isolation
We can help you find the answers to any question that comes up in relation to the outbreak. Contact us on spnt.
As per the recent government guidance face masks or face coverings must be worn by all NHS hospital staff and visitors in areas where two metre social distancing cannot be maintained, to help stop the spread of coronavirus. This includes non-clinical areas, hospital corridors, and public areas.
So if you are visiting our NHS libraries you may need to wear a Type 2 surgical mask, and please remember to stay two metres apart to keep your fellow colleagues and library staff safe.
Opening times
All of our libraries are open and our staff are operating a mixture of home and on site working.
Some library rooms and locations have restrictions on maximum occupancy. Please check with your library ahead of your visit if you wish to book a room or a PC.
Sanitisation measures
We’re taking extra measures to protect our staff and library users, such as cleaning all door handles, computers, phones and self-issue kiosks on a regular basis. Clinical wipes and hand sanitiser are also available for you to use.
Returned books are being quarantined before re-shelving. This may cause slight delays before books are available so thank you for your patience.
Teaching
We are currently offering a mixture of remote and on-site teaching. On-site teaching places are limited to comply with social distancing guidance. Contact your specialist librarian to book a teaching session.
Extended loan periods
The loan period for all items has been extended to eight weeks. You will be contacted if an item is needed by another library member.
Contact spnt.
Here is a list of freely available resources relating to the pandemic.
Summaries and advice
- UK Government Covid 19 guidance for health professionals
- Number of coronavirus cases and risk in the UK
- Coronavirus: what you need to do (latest public information from the UK Government)
- Coronavirus information on NICE evidence search
- UpToDate
- BMJ Best Practice
- DynaMed
- World Health Organization technical guidance
- Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre
The scientific literature
- Recent papers in PubMed (search string: covid-19 or novel coronavirus or ncov or 2019-ncov)
- Trip Database ‘latest and greatest’ articles
- CDC updates on coronavirus
Several publishers have made their material on Covid 19 available on open access, including:
Health Education England’s (HEE) national Library and Knowledge Services team has collated trusted, accessible online patient information resources on Covid 19 for all staff who work directly with patients, clients, and families.
You will find information in accessible formats, such as easy reads and British Sign Language, information for children and families, and information for older people (including people with dementia)
This resource is being added to all the time, so please check it regularly to see what else has been included.
Health Education England and the Reading Agency have crowd-sourced a list of uplifting resources from NHS staff. They were all recommended by colleagues in the NHS, and are ideal for boosting your mood.
The digital resources include poems, podcasts, websites and apps, and are available here.
The print resources comprise the following print titles chosen by NHS staff. Copies of these books will be available in NHS libraries later this month:
- "Love in colour” by Bolu Babalola
- “The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse” by Charlie Mackesey
- “Three things about Elsie” by Joanna Cannon
- “Before the coffee gets cold” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- “The lido” by Libby Page
- “Where the crawdads sing” by Delia Owens
- “The salt path” by Raynor Winn
- “Calypso” by David Sedaris
- “The lost spells” by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
- “Happiness FM” by Mary Dickins