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  Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common disorders of the digestive system.  It is often stigmatized and misunderstood but the symptoms have a significant impact on the quality of life for many people.  IBS Awareness Month falls in April each year with the aim of raising awareness of the condition and encouraging frank and open conversations about toilet habits.   RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES     The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.  This document covers the following resources – books , journals , journal articles and patient information .   BOOKS       Sleise nger and Fordtran's gastrointestinal and liver disease: pathophysiology/diagnosis/management ; Feldman, Mark, editor; Friedman, Lawrence S; et al; 2021 (Elsevier

 The Oxford Medicine Online ebook collection, subscribed to by NHS England, has been extended to include the Specialist Handbook series. This collection is available to all NHS staff via your NHS OpenAthens username. Link to the collection via our eBooks page . The list of new titles include the following: A Resuscitation Room Guide Addiction Medicine Adult Congenital Heart Disease Advanced Respiratory Critical Care Anaesthesia for Emergency Care Applied Medicine and Surgery in Dentistry Burns (OSH Surgery) Cardiac Anaesthesia Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Intervention Cardiac Electrophysiology and Catheter Ablation Cardiothoracic Critical Care Cardiothoracic Surgery Cardiovascular Computed Tomography Cardiovascular Imaging Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Colorectal Surgery Day Case Surgery Dementia - from advanced disease to bereavement Echocardiography End of Life Care in the ICU - from advanced disease to bereavement Epilepsy Fetal Cardiology

 AMED is the  Allied and complementary medicine database, providing abstracts covering subjects within allied health therapies as well as some nursing topics. This has previously been provided to NHS staff via the Ovid platform. Access to this database has now moved to the Proquest Dialog platform; note that this is different from the Proquest platform that we currently use for other databases. AMED is provided by NHS England as part of the NHS core content collection. Proquest provide additional help to using their resources on this website . All relevant links have been updated in the NHS Resources page on the Health Library website . You will need your NHS openAthens login to access this database. If you need any assistance using this database please contact the Health Library training librarians  library.healthlibrarytrainers@keele.ac.uk

 Issue 10, for April 2024, of the Health Library newsletter is now available. You can read it online . Over the beginning of this year we have been posting all about the different ways you can develop your digital skills and how the Health Library can help. This issue of the bulletin is a special themed issue on digital skills. So, if you want to prepare your literature search plan, use resources more effectively and get referencing right, take a look at the newsletter .

 You live, work and study in a digital world. It is so important that you develop the right skills to maximise your potential to achieve success in your studies, work and for your patients. The Health Library can help you to develop, demonstrate and deliver your digital skills. We have been showcasing how the Health Library can support you in developing your skills. Please explore these blog posts which detail the training and development opportunities available to you: What are digital and information skills? Have you got them? Your digital skills – how can the Health Library help? Information skills to support literature searching Analyse your question to get your literature search off to a good start Develop your search skills with our online tutorials Learn to use the right resource Is the information you find good quality? Make sure you use information ethically Use your digital skills to share the information you find Stay up-to-date with updates in your field More training o

   Here is a reminder that there will be reduced opening hours at the Health Library over the Easter holiday weekend. Friday 29th March -  Closed Saturday 30th March - 10am to 4pm Sunday 31st March -  Closed Monday 1st April -  Closed Online resources remain  accessible from our website .

Calling all Keele students who use the CEC (Clinical Education Centre)! Please complete our Student Survey Let us know how you use the Health Library Let us know why you don't use the Health Library Let us know how we can improve the Health Library Enter your contact details for a chance to win a £20 voucher Many thanks to everyone who has participated so far.  The survey will close at the end of this week.

 We’ve been showcasing our training options that help you to develop, demonstrate and deliver your digital skills , so supporting your work and studies. You’ve been shown presentations, interactive etutorials and videos to help you to develop your information skills and so find information effectively and efficiently. What did you think? How can we improve? We value what you think about our services and use your input to improve. Please complete our feedback form to let us know what you think about our online information skills etutorials. More help Contact the Health Library if you need any help finding the information you need.

 There will be reduced opening hours at the Health Library over the Easter holiday weekend. Friday 29th March - Closed Saturday 30th March - 10am to 4pm Sunday 31st March - Closed Monday 1st April - Closed Online resources remain accessible from our website .

 During the past couple of months we have showcased some of our online tutorial options to help you to develop, demonstrate and deliver your digital skills, so supporting your work and studies. We also have a range of in-person training delivered by our experienced, qualified librarian team. For more information about the courses and workshops they deliver, either face-to-face or online, whether in groups or as personal sessions, please see our training pages: Courses for Keele students Courses for NHS community staff Courses for UHNM staff If you need any other help you can contact the training team . Remember our online eTutorials Find all our online tutorials on the Information Skills web page on the Health Library website . More help Contact the Health Library if you need any help finding the information you need.

 Due to loss of funding, the wonderful blog Evidently Cochrane will be ending at the end of March 2024. This has been a useful resource providing easy to read evidence summaries on a wide range of conditions and diseases. It will be sadly missed. Message from the editors: We want to acknowledge the huge contribution that all of our bloggers have made. We are very grateful. We have had a wonderful time working on the blog, and have learned so much. A big thank you also to you, our readers, for being part of our journey. Evidently Cochrane Editors, Sarah Chapman and Selena Ryan-Vig For help using the Cochrane Library please complete our online tutorial: Searching Cochrane Library for systematic reviews

 Healthcare is a regularly changing industry and a plethora of content is published every year. Staying up-to-date, or managing your current awareness, whether for your professional regulations, current practice or keeping up with the latest research is an important element of your work and studies. You can use your digital skills to stay up-to-date and manage the increasing amount of new information. Learn more about staying up-to-date and the tools you can use by completing our etutorials: What is current awareness? And why do you need it Current awareness tools Learn more about the tools you can use to stay up-to-date Introduction to KnowledgeShare Watch this video for an overview of KnowledgeShare for NHS staff More eTutorials Find all our online tutorials on the Information Skills web page on the Health Library website . More help Contact the Health Library if you need any help finding the information you need.