Current awareness

Keeping you up to date with the latest information in your area of interest. 

Bulletins

• ESTH Special Bulletin: Every few months we create and publish occasional special bulletins. The current one focuses on celebrating the work of our continence champions. The articles contained in the bulletin are either accessible with an OpenAthens account, by contacting the library or open access. (no password required to access the full text).  Please refer to the notes next to each article.  

  If you have any comments or suggestions about the ESTH Special bulletin or Nursing bulletin please contact Manda at: manda.atkinson@nhs.net. If you would like to receive an alert of new blog postings please enter your email address into the Follow by Email box on the right-hand side of the blog page.

• ESTH Nursing Bulletin: This regular bulletin features key papers and publications that focus mainly on the latest news and issues in the nursing profession.
• MAG Online Current Awareness Bulletins:  a selection of various healthcare topics including women's health, safeguarding and mental health.  These are produced by MA Healthcare to help us and other libraries maximise our subscriptions to the collection of MA Healthcare journals.  Use your ESTH OpenAthens account to access the full text.

• Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust Eating Disorders Bulletin August 2025: Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust produce an eating disorders bulletin on a bi-monthly basis. If you're interested in any of the articles listed please email our library: esth.hirsonlibrary@nhs.net
• Sustainability in Healthcare update July 2025 : This regular bulletin features key papers and publications that focus mainly on the latest news and issues on sustainability in healthcare by Hampshire Healthcare Library Service.

• Making People Count - August 2025  covers learning and development, teamwork, recruitment and well-being. If you're interested in recruiting, developing and looking after a high-quality workforce you need to read it. 

To sign up contact john.gale@mcht.nhs.uk

 

 

 

 

KnowledgeShare

KnowledgeShare (produced and provided by Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust),  enables you to sign up for regular, targeted, personalised evidence updates based on your specific professional interests. If you are interested in this current awareness service please fill in the KnowledgeShare current awareness form.

Epsom and St Helier authored publications

On an annual basis the Library Team working together with the Research Department performs searches to find out how many Epsom and St Helier authored papers there are in the medical health databases including Medline, Emcare, BNI, Cochrane, Web of Science, Cinahl Embase, PubMed and more.

Coming soon:  The 2023 - 2024 is now  and the 2024 - 2025 reports will soon be uploaded.

Please note: the Library can support you with your research publication by providing help with information and literature searching, training sessions on how to search the medical health databases including Medline and Embase. In addition we can support you with using free reference management software including Zotero and Mendeley. Additional support includes help with referencing your papers and accessing statistical packages including JASP.  To find out more, view the Library Support for Research leaflet or contact Marisa or Potenza by email at esth.hirsonlibrary@nhs.net.

 

 

ESTH Resource sheets

We produce resource sheets to highlight the range of resources that can be borrowed or accessed electronically on a particular topic. These can be used for a particular national campaign (e.g. Diabetes Awareness) or internal promotional events.

 

Digital flyers: key library resources by topic

Artificial intelligence in Healthcare	Management resource sheet
Baby loss	Menopause
Breastfeeding	Midwifery resources
Clinical audit digital flyer	Nutrition and hydration
Communication skills and teamwork	Palliative care
Delirium	Palliative care reflections
Dementia	Quality improvement
Diabetes	Research
Educational supervisors	Sepsis
Infection control	Stress management
LGBTQ+ resources	Sustainability

                           

If you would like us to produce a resource sheet to tie in with a campaign you are involved with please email esth.hirsonlibrary@nhs.net.

BrowZine

BrowZine (opens in a window) brings together e-journals from different publishers, and presents them in an easily browsable format. You can browse current and back issues of most of our titles and you can organise your journals on a virtual bookshelf.  You can also set up an email alert when new issues of these journals are published.

Grand Round presentations

Grand Round presentations, held at both Epsom and St Helier, are now being catalogued by the Library and Information Services. The aim of this is to improve the sharing of medical expertise across both hospitals to inform patient care and enhance our clinical practice. 

For a list of all the presentations, please see the Grand Rounds reading list.

Search alerts

When saving searches in databases such as the British Nursing Index or Medline, you can set up alerts to be notified by email whenever new articles matching your search terms are published.

Our library staff can carry out searches for quality healthcare information from journals, book chapters, reports, and more. We can also teach you how to run your own searches and set up alerts (see Training sessions).