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Primary Care Librarian does visits on foot

Tom Roper, our Primary Care Librarian, recently finished the Brighton marathon in 4hrs 46mins 12secs, forty seconds faster than his last attempt in 2011. This was his twelfth marathon, and he claims it is proof of the Latin tag,
mens sana in corpore sano, a healthy mind in a healthy body. It also means we can cut down on his petrol expenses, as he can obviously manage quite well without a car.

E-Books

We now have a small collection of e-books, adding to our virtual library. Please have a look at them and suggest other titles we could add.

Royal Marsden Manual Online

Community and acute staff now have access to the online Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures. We have paid for access to the online version for Sussex Community Trust and Western Sussex Hospitals Trust for 2012. Login at http://www.rmmonline.co.uk with an NHS Athens account for the full text of the current edition.

We can give you training in how to use the site, just contact us to book a session.

Dynamed now available for hospital & primary care

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care' with clinically-organized summaries on more than 3,200 topics. DynaMed is updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases. Each publication is reviewed cover-to-cover and each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content. The overall conclusions are changed as appropriate, representing a synthesis of the best available evidence.

Dynamed's URL is http://ebscohost.com/dynamed/ . It is available to anyone with a Western Sussex Hospitals trust, Sussex Community Trust or NHS West Sussex Athens account. For help, please contact the Dunhill Library, Chichester, Worthing Health Sciences Library or Tom Roper, Primary Care librarian.

The Graylingwell Review

To mark the years that Graylingwell Hospital had its own library, we are now publishing "The Graylingwell Review," an online book review site on Wordpress. This will highlight new stock, giving you a flavour of our mental health titles.

Journal current contents

To see the contents of current issues of our electronic journals, click through to our Journals sites on Netvibes. We have two: one for acute and community care and one for mental health. These contain the latest issues of all our journals, plus some key ones from the national collection. Once you're there, clicking on the article title will take you to the full text, although you may have to login via your NHS Athens account.