Current Awareness
We have a variety of ways to help you keep up-to-date in your areas of interest, clinical and non-clinical.
Updates
Updates are emailed twice a year and provide a summary of the evidence across broader subject areas. Some Bulletins are sent monthly and contain recent relevant publications. To receive any of the Updates or Bulletins directly to your email inbox, click the button below. You can also view the latest editions of all the Updates below.
KnowledgeShare
KnowledgeShare is our targeted current awareness service. Register for an account and input your areas of interest to receive fortnightly emails of recently published evidence.
Latest Editions
Critical Care
Click the link below to access the latest Critical Care bulletin.
Emergency Medicine
Infection Control
Making People Count (HR)
Pressure Ulcer
Social Media
Social media can be useful for keeping up-to-date with general professional and personal interests. Set up an account on sites like Bluesky or Mastadon, and ‘follow’ organisations and individuals with similar interests. Each time they post you will see it on your homepage.
Visit our Digital Literacy page for more information on assessing information you see online.
Journal Database Alerts
Create and run an evidence search in one of the databases (e.g. Medline, Cinahl, etc). When you save the search you can create an alert. You will then receive automatic updates to the search results at regular intervals. For complex clinical or professional interests this is a good way to keep your updates very specific.
Additional Bulletins
- The Big Four (a weekly bulletin containing the titles and abstracts of the research papers from BMJ, Lancet, NEJM and JAMA)
- Digital Transformation
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Bulletin (NHS England)
- Falls Prevention
- Health Management and Policy Newsletter (Kings Fund)
- Health and Wellbeing Newsletter (Kings Fund)
- Health Management Bulletin
- Integrated Care Bulletin (Kings Fund)
- Kings Fund Update
- Leadership Newsletter (Kings Fund)
- Mortality Review Bulletin
- Informed Bulletin (NHS England)
- Nursing Midwifery Matters (Chief Nursing Officer Bulletin)
- Palliative Care Bulletin
- Pre-hospital Emergency Services
- Primary Care Bulletin
- Stroke Horizon Scanning Bulletin
- Suicide Prevention
- Sustainability in Healthcare Bulletin
Podcasts
Below are some podcasts about general medicine as a subject. Some of our Toolkits also link to specific podcasts – please note that the library has not assessed the content of all the podcasts.
- BMJ Podcasts – list of podcasts produced by the BMJ
- The King’s Fund Podcast – about health and care in the UK
- NEJM Podcasts – list of podcasts produced by the New England Journal of Medicine
- Home of Medicine with Dr. Amie Burbridge and Dr. Ben Lovell – produced by the European Federation of Internal Medicine
Podcasted featuring East Cheshire staff
Listen to an episode of The Sim Tech Podcast featuring Cristina, Matt and Scott from our Sim Team.
Listen to an episode of The Research Room discussing the DIDACT Study, which the Trust is a part of.
