NLH Later Life Specialist Library updated

The Later Life Specialist Library’s Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Annual Evidence Update aims to provide healthcare professionals with a clear path to the most important recent evidence surrounding the five major types of dementias: Alzheimer’s; Vascular dementia; Dementia with lewy bodies; Frontotemporal dementia; and mixed dementias.

This site contains the best available evidence to support people making later life health care decisions.  This includes content from a variety of sources:

• Guidance from NICE, SIGN and various professional colleges and societies
• Evidence based reviews from the NLH Clinical Knowledge Summaries, Bandolier and Evidence-Based journals
• Systematic reviews from the Cochrane Library and DARE
• Key publications and best practice articles from the Department of Health and WHO
  Patient information from UK charities

NLH Vascular Diseases Specialist Library

http://www.library.nhs.uk/Vascular/

The Vascular Diseases Specialist Library aims to provide high quality, evidence-based information on all of aspects of vascular diseases. This site is aimed at health professionals with an interest in vascular diseases, including managing leg ulcers and diabetic foot.  There is a good navigator bar to the left to help you choose between conditions, diagnosis, screen, and management.

National Electronic Library of Medicines (NeLM)

NeLM is the largest medicines information portal for healthcare professionals in the UK National Health Service (NHS). It aims to promote the safe, effective and efficient use of medicines. This free service has been in operation since 1998 (originally as Druginfozone) and is updated daily. The site has a wide range of information products, including news, evidence-based reviews on drugs and drug therapy and health promotion material. It also provides a facility for sharing practice. Much of the current content is provided by the NHS pharmacy medicines information service (UKMi) – see ukmi.nhs.uk for more information about the network.

Most of the material is free to look at, although about 10% is for NHS England Athens users only.  Some citations to articles will not have a direct link to our sign in page, so the best thing to do is to make a note of the citation and then look for the journal in Voyager.