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Kath Williams CASH Service Officer [email protected] Tel. 01246 733232 Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH)

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Kath Williams

CASH Service Officer

[email protected]

Tel. 01246 733232

Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH)

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Service OverviewBackground

Collaborative model

Quality and development

Service features

Becoming a ContributorRole of a contributor

Benefits of contributing to CASH

How to get involved

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Service Overview

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History of CASH

2001: Project to investigate a current awareness service for the 11health authorities in the Trent Region

2003: Proposal to SHA for a web based service

2004: The Primary Care Current Awareness Service (PCCAS) goes live  on The Improvement Network (TIN)

2005: National current awareness service proposed

2006: RSS Directory launched on NLH

2008: Successful bid to NLH for a national current awareness  service

2009: A challenging year for CASH

2010‐2011: CASH gains the support of SHALL

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CASH Database

A central repository for your current awareness itemsSpreading the workloadInformation becomes searchable and available to subscribe to as a newsfeedZinepal

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Utilising the strengths of contributors

Knowledge of user requirementsInvolved in building the service Not “one size fits all”

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Quality and development

Management Board6 Board membersLibrary managers with years of experience in delivering current awareness servicesRepresentative from each sectorQuarterly meetings

Service OfficerFirst line support and trainingQuality monitoringPromoting the serviceEnhancements to central infrastructureService evaluation

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Service features

Hosted on The Improvement Network (TIN) Website: 

http://www.tin.nhs.uk/welcome/keeping‐up‐to‐date

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Fully searchable online database:

http://www.tin.nhs.uk/welcome/keeping‐up‐to‐date/search‐database/

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Categories50+ categories

Management topics

Conditions (Chronic Fatigue)

Patient Groups (Later Life)

Sectors – Primary Care, Secondary Care & Mental Health

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Newsfeeds

http://www.tin.nhs.uk/welcome/keeping‐up‐to‐date/rss‐newsfeed‐menu/

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What’s included?

Grey literatureManagement informationReports & statistics Parliamentary informationJournal articlesSystematic reviews

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Current Awareness Bulletins

http://www.tin.nhs.uk/welcome/keeping‐up‐to‐date/bulletin‐menu/

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Email alerts via the CASH Portal

CASH has developed a Current Awareness Portal using the popular Netvibes service

Access to all the newsfeeds without the need to subscribe in a reader

Email alerts for each of the newsfeeds and bulletins

Feedback so far has been positive and statistics show that the portal is well used

http://www.netvibes.com/keeping‐up‐to‐date 

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End‐user support

Accessing the full‐text of journal articlesSubscribing to newsfeedsMore in‐depth guidance via the CASH User GuidesService Officer

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User feedback

“A brilliant service which helps me to be efficient and effective in my work and keep up to date with current research.”

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Becoming a Contributor

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/thatscottishengineer/3083827089/sizes/m/

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Role of a contributor

Contributors enter up to 15 items into the database per month for their chosen category – this takes approximately 2‐3 hours, including:

Scouring sources for relevant items of information for your chosen category and sector

Entering them into the database

Entries should be made as quickly as possible to ensure currencyis maintained

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Memorandum of Understanding

Available to download on TIN

Outlines the roles and responsibilities of both contributors andthe CASH team

Each contributor is asked to sign a copy

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Support mechanismsService OfficerSupport materialsCASH Forum (Google group)

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Benefits of contributing to CASHCentral infrastructureThe database, newsfeeds and email alerts provide an established mechanism for the delivery of current awareness services.

Sharing of informationBy entering items into a central and fully searchable online database, the 

information can be shared and re‐used as a supplement to local current awareness initiatives.

Current awareness toolsAccess to Zinepal (www.zinepal.com), which uses the content of newsfeeds and blogs to create PDF bulletins. Content can be pulled from multiple sources, and the individual bulletins edited and reformatted as required. 

Support network

A major benefit of collaborative working is the sharing of knowledge and expertise.

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Commissioning/Public Health project

Supporting the information needs of the emerging Clinical Commissioning Groups and a reorganised Public Health serviceAvoiding duplication of effort between library services

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How to get involved

Choose a category

Email me to arrange an initial chat [email protected]

Post or fax a signed copy of the MoU

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Questions?