NHS Maternity Statistics, 2008-09 [England]

“Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) contains a wide range of maternity information which has been published annually since 2000-01. The publication includes details of all births taking place in NHS hospitals (in England) excluding home births and those taking place in independent sector hospitals. This includes a wide range of information such as details of how the baby was born (method of delivery), complications, birth weight and gestation.” The full report is available to download.

Problems accessing MIDIRS & BNI?

l am afraid that we are experiencing problems accessing Ovid resources such as Midirs and the British Nursing Index (BNI) at the moment. The issue has been reported and hopefully will be resolved soon. It is possible to access these databases using the method below as an emergency measure.

•  Follow the procedure to set the Athens Cookie from our web pages or visit https://auth.athensams.net/setsite.php?id=WALESSWANSEA
•  Once you have logged in select ‘Ovid Online’ from the list of Resources displayed.
•  On the Ovid News Page that appears select continue.
•  From the list of databases select the options that you are interested in.

Wales and its Local Health Boards Demographics

With the creation of the new Local Health Boards, a new website has come up with demographic profiles for each Board.  The English language version can be found by clicking here; the Welsh language version can be found by clicking here.

Fancy winning £500?

Here’s your chance to show off your talents (and win £500 too!).

Do you write, paint, compose music or love animation? Whatever your talent, Express Yourself in the Welsh libraries Arts Competition this Autumn and you could win £500! Throughout October and November this year the whole of Wales will be getting inspired by libraries and expressing themselves through creative writing, visual arts, short films or audio.

Ask at the library for an entry form or visit this link for further details http://library.wales.org/

Good luck!

Global Health database trial

The Library currently has a trial of the Global Health database until the 15th November. To access the database from on-campus, please go to www.cabdirect.org and you can use the basic or advanced search.

Global Health is a selective database of 1.4 million records dedicated to public and international health and biological sciences. Many of the titles are unique and will not overlap other health databases such as PubMed (ie WHO documents). Please feel free to give the database a try, and send any feedback to medlib@swan.ac.uk .

Welcome back returning students!

I hope you were able to recharge your batteries during the summer break. A few things have changed, and will be still changing. in the Library since you went on break. Unfortunately, the Library is a bit of a construction site at the moment. There will be a redesign of the service desks and self-issue/return, as well as a refurbishment of the toilets (finally!), due to finish in the next few weeks. Here are a few essentials you may want to take note of:

- the Information Desk and IT Support Desk, as well as the Careers Desk, are temporarily relocated in the Study Hall.

- there is only one toilet available, and that is the disabled toilet behind the Issue Desk. The closest toilets are located in the Kier Hardy or Taliesan building.

-by the end of September their should be a new combined Issue/IT/Careers Desk and Information Desk in the Central Hall as you walk in. The current Issue Desk area (the first desk area as you enter the library) will become an expanded Costa Coffee, and the old noisy coffee pod station will be removed from the Study Hall.

-The service desks will be closing earlier than last year. Please check the Library’s Opening Hours page for all the details – http://www.swan.ac.uk/lis/library/opening/

-and finally, the old self issue/return machines will be replaced by new ones, which eventually will also allow you to pay for fines as well as check-out, renew and return your books.

We apologize for the confusion this might all cause you as you return from break! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask any member of staff in the Library and we can hopefully steer you in the right direction.

EndNote Web now available

EndNote, the bibliographic referencing software, is now available over the web. If you have not used EndNote before, it is a wonderful resource which helps you gather your references directly from databases or you can input your own chosen references. The software integrates nicely with Word, so you can easily cite while you write. The Library has instructions on how to access and use EndNote Web.

Change management

Are you looking for information on the management of change?

Then this document is a really good starting point. “How to change practice: understand, identify and overcome barriers to change” provides practical suggestions based on evidence and experience to help get NICE guidance into practice.

http://www.nice.org.uk/media/D33/8D/Howtochangepractice1.pdf

Don’t panic!

After 2 weeks of hard work the library at Trinity University College, Carmarthen has reopened. Come and visit us to see the changes, but don’t panic if you can’t find the Nursing/Health Science books we’ve moved them round the corner from where they were. Please ask Izzy or Elen if you can’t find what you need.

Swansea Uni Library updates

The Library at the University is going through a few changes over the summer. The Issue Desk, Information Desk, IT Support Desk and Careers Desk will all merge into one desk. In order to make the move, these desks are temporarily in the Study Hall while construction of the new desk takes place in the entrance.

The book collection is also being moved around a bit, however the R section where most of your books are will not be effected too much. If you have any questions, or cannot find what you are looking for, please ask at the desks in the Study Hall.