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This site is maintained and hosted by Discovery Library, Derriford Hospital and gives details of selected General Practice content available to
Plymouth practice staff, out-of-hours staff and GP trainees
and all other staff/students on placement
across the Plymouth, SWASFT & SCAS health community.

Click here to visit our main library website or here to see a list of clinical specialty pages

If you have problems or comments/suggestions
phone 01752 439111 or email library.mailbox@nhs.net

 

NHS England –
Primary Care COVID-19 guidance page including a General Practice section
Also see the COVID-19 Primary Care bulletin
Clinical guide for the management of anticoagulant services
Clinical guide for the management of people with alcohol dependence
Palliative care guides
Clinical guidance for healthcare professionals on maintaining immunisation programmes during COVID-19

 

Resuscitation Council UK
Statements on COVID-19, CPR and Resuscitation: Community CPR

 

Royal College of General Practitioners
COVID-19 resource hub

 

Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM)
COVID-19 Evidence Service for primary care questions

 

COVID-19 daily alert research bulletin
Public Health England Knowledge and Library Services produce a daily alert containing links to research and news on the latest coronavirus outbreak.
If you would like to receive this email alert, which contains latest research articles and news from government departments, please contact libraries@phe.gov.uk.

They also have created the Finding the evidence: Coronavirus page.

 

Elearning for Health (ELfH) COVID-19 programme –
part of Health Education England’s elearning suite in partnership with the NHS and Professional Bodies.

 

We cannot currently guarantee usual staffed hours for phone requests but if you have a query please email library.mailbox@nhs.net  and include a contact telephone number and we will respond Mon-Fri: 0830-1730.
If your query is urgent please mark it URGENT in subject line.

The library is currently open to swipe card access so if you have a University Hospitals Plymouth staff ID or have borrowed a visitor card this should give you access as usual. Unfortunately, if you do not have a card we cannot currently guarantee a member of staff will be available to let you in during usual staffed hours.

 

 

NEW CONTENT

New ebook content added 16/06/2020
Oxford handbook of general practice / 5th ed. Chantal Simon, Hazel Everitt, Francoise van Dorp. 2020.
Practice accounts made easy / 3rd ed. Ann Tudor. 2019.
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account to access (register here)

09/06/2020 New ebook content added
Remote Facilitator’s Pocket Guide
Work Together Anywhere A Handbook on Working Remotely -Successfully- for Individuals, Teams, and Managers
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account to access (register here)

 

 

 

 

 

Point of Care and CPD tools

• BMJ Best Practice (don’t use Internet Explorer, choose alternative browser)
  Evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion offering step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.
  
  ****Note you will need a local NHS Athens account (register here).
  When prompted to Find your Organisation, type NHS in England.
  On 1st access you’ll be asked to create personal account to download free App***

 

• BNF and BNF for Children
  May work automatically on practice PC (if NHS networked), if not login with NHS Athens account. Click here to find out about the free BNF app

 

• Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS)– provided by NICE. Summaries of the current evidence base & practical guidance on best practice for >300 primary care presentations.

 

• Elearning for Health (ELfH) -Health Education England’s suite of high quality content free of charge training (topics incl. COVID-19 programme, General Practice, Mental Health Awareness, Personalised Care Planning, Leadership, Managing Frequent Attenders) in partnership with the NHS and Professional Bodies.
  Note you will need a local NHS Athens account (register here)

 

• NICE  Evidence -access to authoritative clinical & non-clinical evidence and best practice through a web-based portal. provided by NICE

 

 

 

 

Databases (handout)

Search the NHS healthcare databases:

AMED- covers topics for allied health professionals & scientists
British Nursing Index (BNI)- topics for nurses & care staff
CINAHL- international nursing & allied health
EMBASE- primarily European biomedicine journals
Health Business Elite- all aspects of health service management and organisation
HMIC- health service management & organisation incl grey literature
MEDLINE- most health topics 
PsycINFO- psychology & psychiatry including health psychology & trauma

Note- you will need an NHS Athens login.

Other databases available:

• ClinicalKey – clinical insight search tool which gives access to over 1100 electronic books & 500 journals & other fulltext resources
  Note You will need an NHS Athens account to access

• Cochrane Library– collection of databases (details here) containing different types of high-quality, independent evidence such as Systematic Reviews, RCTs and Health Technology Assessments.

• TRIP Database– clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice.

For some journals there will be a link to online access or a print journal shelf (please email with full reference if you would like a copy of a print article held at Derriford).
If your required article is not available consider making an article request via the library.

See the main library website for details of our information skills training programme and literature searching support services.

 

 

 

 

 

Journals

 

Full A-Z list of all journals– you will need an NHS Athens account- click here to register.

Selected General Practice and Community Medicine journals below

If we don’t hold your required article you can consider making an article request via the library.

 

 

Journal	Coverage	Notes
BMC Family Practice	2000-
BMC Public Health	2001-
BMJ	1840-
BMJ Quality and Safety	1840-
British Journal of Community Nursing	1996-
British Journal of Healthcare Assistants	2007-
British Journal of Healthcare Management	1998-
British Journal of Nursing	1992-
Community Practitioner	2000-
Evidence-Based Medicine	1998-
Evidence-Based Nursing	2000-
Family Practice Management	2007-
GP: General Practitioner	2003-
Independent Nurse	2005-
Journal of Community Nursing	2004-
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health	1947-
Journal of Health Visiting	2013-
Journal of Medical Ethics	1975-
Journal of Prescribing Practice	2003-
Lancet	2007-
Nursing	2002-
Nursing Times	2010-
Postgraduate Medical Journal	1925-
Practice Management	2014-
Practice Nurse	2003-
Practice Nursing	1996-
Practitioner	1998-
Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice	2007-
Primary Care Diabetes	2007-
Primary Care Respiratory Journal	2000-
Primary Health Care	2001-
Public Health	2007-

 

 

 

 

Books (guide)

Search our print and electronic book holdings.

Note- you will need an NHS Athens login to to access ebooks.

This is a regional NHS catalogue, so in location select ‘Plymouth, Derriford Hospital, PLY’ to limit your search to books held here.

You can also log in and renew your books here (if you have not already made a pin number for your library account follow the instructions on screen).

If we don’t have the book you require you can consider making a book request. (Service for registered borrowers, undertaking NHS work. Registration forms are available here).

Please email with title if you would like book posted to you.

We have the majority of the Reading Agency’s Books on Prescription lists in print.

Selected ebooks listed below. Always select to login with OpenAthens account

 

 

 

Title	Date	Edition	1st author
ABC of Clinical Reasoning	2017	1	Cooper
Achieving High Quality Care: Practical Experience from NICE	2014	1	Leng
Adventures in human being	2016	1	Francis
Being a Doctor : Understanding Medical Practice	2014	1	Wilson
Being mortal: illness, medicine and what matters in the end	2014		Gawande
Can Medicine Be Cured?: the corruption of a profession.	2019	1	O’Mahony
A clinician’s brief guide to the Mental Capacity Act	2015	2	Brindle
A clinician’s brief guide to the Mental Health Act	2016	4	Zigmond
Collaborative practice in primary and community care	2020		Ahluwalia
Contraception made easy	2020	2nd	Percy
The CSA exam : maximising your success.	2016	1	Roberts
CSA revision notes for the MRCGP (limited to 1 current user only)	2016	3	Stannett
CSA scenarios for the MRCGP : frameworks for clinical consultations.	2015	3	Das
Developing reflective practice: a guide for medical students, doctors and teachers	2017	1	Grant
Differential Diagnosis of Common Complaints	2018	7	Seller
Essential primary care.	2017	1	Blythe
Essential procedures for emergency, urgent, and primary care settings : a clinical companion..	2016	2	Campo
Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis	2012	3	McGee
Family Medicine Obstetrics	2008	3	Ratcliffe
A Flourishing Practice?	2014	1	Toon
Fracture management for primary care and emergency medicine	2020	4th	Eiff
General Practice at a Glance	2013	1	Booton
General Practice Cases at a Glance	2017	1	Cooper
General practice nursing: foundational principles	2019	1	Duncan
Get through MRCGP : clinical skills assessment	2013	2	Rushforth
Get through MRCOG part 2: SBAs	2018		Wuntakal
A good life to the end: taking control of our inevitable journey through ageing and death	2019 rev ed		Hillman
Gray’s Basic Anatomy	2018	1	Drake
Guide to Staff Employment in General Practice	2015	1	Milligan
A Guide to Supporting Breastfeeding for the Medical Profession.	2019		Brown
Ham’s Primary Care Geriatrics	2014	6	Ham
History and clinical examination at a glance	2012	3	Gleadle
Hot Topics in Financial and Legal Matters for General Practice	2015	1	Gilbert
How to read a paper: the basics of evidence-based medicine and healthcare	2019	6	Greenhalgh
Intelligent kindness : reforming the culture of healthcare	2011	1	Ballatt
Jekel’s Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health	2014	4	Katz
Medical Mentoring : Supporting students, doctors in training and general practitioners	2014	1	Jeffery
Minor illness or major disease?	2016	6	Addison
Minor injury and minor illness at a glance	2014	1	Morris
Minor surgery at a glance	2017	1	Mohan
Oxford handbook of acute medicine (Download for up to 3 months at a time)	2019	4	Ramrakha
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis (Download for up to 3 months at a time)	2009	2	Llewelyn
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Examination & Practical Skills (Download for up to 3 months at a time)	2007	1	Thomas
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (Download for up to 3 months at a time)	2017	10	Wilkinson
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties (Download for up to 3 months at a time)	2013	9	Collier
Oxford handbook of genitourinary medicine, HIV, and sexual health (Download for up to 3 months at a time)	2019	3	Mitchell
Oxford Handbook of General Practice (Download for up to 3 months at a time)	2020	5	Simon
Oxford Handbook of Geriatric Medicine (Download for up to 3 months at a time)	2018	3	Bowker
Oxford Handbook of Primary Care and Community Nursing	2014	2	Drennan
Patient Safety & Healthcare Improvement at a Glance	2014	1	Panesar
Pfenninger and Fowler’s procedures for primary care	2020	4	Fowler
A practical guide to delivering personalisation : person-centred practice in health and social care.	2012	1	Sanderson
A practical guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 : putting the principles of the Act into practice.	2015	1	Graham
Practice accounts made easy	2019	3	Tudor
Public health and epidemiology at a glance	2016	2	Somerville
Public health and health promotion for nurses at a glance	2019	1	Wild
Signs and Symptoms in Family Medicine	2012	1	Paulman
Suburban shaman : tales from medicine’s frontline	2004	1	Helman
Telephone triage care	2018	1	Hunter
Textbook of Family Medicine	2016	9	Rakel
The textbook of non-medical prescribing.	2020	3	Nuttall
The way we die now	2016		O’Mahony
Working with asylum seekers and refugees: what to do, what not to do, and how to help	2019	1	Crowther
Working with Vulnerable Groups : A clinical handbook for GPs	2014	1	Gill
Wound care at a glance	2020	2nd	Peate

 

 

 

Athens

To register go to https://openathens.nice.org.uk/

At Step 2 type in Plymouth GPs and select GPs and Practice Staff in Plymouth.

For GPVTS rotations in acute and community hospitals type in relevant organisation
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Please use an NHS email address to register if you have one– once registered you can access content anywhere.