NICE CKS service provides primary care practitioners with a
readily accessible summary of the current evidence base and practical guidance
on best practice in respect of over 300 common and/or significant primary care
presentations. The service is regularly updated and new topics added as and
when significant new evidence emerges.
Since its launch on 8 April 2013,
NICE CKS has updated 50 topics and included
four new topics provided by Clarity:
Generalised anxiety disorder
Common mental health problems
Miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy (2 CKS topics which count
as one new topic)
Ovarian cancer
The site is experiencing good levels of usage with an
average of 146,000 unique visitors per month since launch. The short list of
new topics for development in 2014/15 has just been agreed between NICE and
Clarity.
Below is a statement from NICE about recent changes.
On
April 1, our name changed to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, to reflect our new role and
responsibilities.
NICE's role is to improve outcomes
for people using the NHS and other public health and social care services. We
do this by:
- Producing
evidence-based guidance and advice for health, public health and social
care practitioners.
- Developing
quality standards and performance metrics for those providing and
commissioning health, public health and social care services;
- Providing
a range of information services for commissioners, practitioners and
managers across the spectrum of health and social care.
See About NICE on
our website for further information.
As a result of these developments
NHS Evidence is now called 'NICE Evidence Services'. NICE Evidence
Services aim to help professionals make better and quicker evidence-based
decisions and are a suite of services that provide online access to high
quality, authoritative evidence and best practice. The services are:
- Evidence Search –
which provides access to a unique index of selected and authoritative
health and social care evidence-based information.
- Healthcare Database
Advanced Search (HDAS) – which provides access via a
federated search to a set of bibliographic databases purchased by NICE on
behalf of the NHS.
- Clinical Knowledge
Summaries (CKS) – which provide primary care practitioners
with access to evidence-based guidance on over 300 key conditions
presenting in primary care.
- BNF microsite –
which provides open access to BNF content across the UK.
- UK DUETS – a
database of Evidence Uncertainties which provides research funders and
researchers, access to the 'known unknowns' in the evidence base.
- Bulletins, Alerts and
Evidence Awareness service – which helps busy
professionals keep up to date with important new evidence.
Click on the image on the left to access the August 2011 Worcestershire Health Libraries newsletter.In this edition you will find:
- Information about changes to NHS Evidence
- A report on events during Health Information Week
- How our document supply service can help you
- And more...
Take part in the ‘NHS Evidence and Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Survey’
NHS Evidence is teaming up with the RCN to conduct a survey to understand the information searching needs and behaviours of nurses and health care assistants (HCAs). The survey explores how you access and use health and social care resources, including any barriers you have experienced.
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