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 November 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 September 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 - November 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.

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.

ESTH Resource sheets

Coming Soon:  The digital flyers/resource sheets are being rebranded and linked in with the various clinical and non-clinical champion groups across the Trust.  Watch this space!

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).