Current awareness

New evidence, guidelines and research are published every day. To help you keep pace with developments relevant to your role, the Library and Knowledge Service provides a range of current awareness services and resources.

From personalised literature and journal alerts to curated Padlets on topics such as AI, sepsis, green health and sustainability and other areas of interest, our services are designed to make it easier to discover, access and apply the latest evidence in practice. Explore the options below to find the approach that works best for you.

BrowZine (Browse journals)

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.

Bulletins

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Special ESTH Library Bulletin: Every few months we create and publish occasional special bulletins. The current one focuses on Clinical Governance. 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.

  • Eating Disorder Bulletin - September 2026 Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust produce an eating disorders bulletin on a bi-monthly basis.  Please also see the Eating Disorders Genetic Initiative (EDGI) Recruitment Leaflet. The EDGI study is open to people in the UK, above 16, who have experienced an eating disorder, you can register via the QR code in the recruitment leaflet.  If you're interested in any of the articles listed please email our library: esth.hirsonlibrary@nhs.net

  • Sustainability bulletin - July/August 2026 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 - October 2026 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

 

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:  There will be an interactive PowerBI dashboard available of the Epsom and St Helier published authors available soon.  

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.

 

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.

KnowledgeShare

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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 .

 

Padlet learning hubs

We have been using Padlet to create subject specific learning hubs for the various Trust clinical and non-clinical champions, to support a number of equality and diversity related subject topics and also various clinical topics.  Please do interact by adding a comment or a reaction to the various resources within each padlet learning hub.

 

Search alerts

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.

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