NHS Evidence

• Our latest Annual Evidence Update: 'Patient and carer involvement in chronic disease' 18 Jan 2010
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• New records last month | Records added in previous months
• Our other current and forthcoming Annual Evidence Updates (AEUs)
• Full calendar of AEUs across NHS Evidence 
• NHS list of online journals - full text articles available to users with an Athens password. Apply online or ask in your local health library about accessing journals
• PubMed | Other databases via the 'Health Information Resources' page
• Events (from Hospice information service)
• News: Hospice UK Online | BBC Health | Dept of Health | NHS Choices/Behind the Headlines | NHS Evidence Specialist Collections News Alert
• Health libraries for supportive and palliative care professionals: Wherever you work, your nearest NHS health library is there to help you access the evidence you need - see the NHS Health Library and Information Services Directory. A network of librarians is also part of the team developing the specialist collection
• Dept of Health End of Life Care Programme
• The Palliative Care Bill; pdf here, 31/01/07 debate, statement from Help the Hospices
• Palliative care and ethnic minorities in Britain - article summarising the best current evidence, produced by the Ethnicity and Health Specialist Collection
• Mental Capacity Act 2005 - info here, easy read summary pdf here, other links via this NCPC page
• Join the 'SUPPORTIVE AND PALLIATIVE CARE EVIDENCE' email list to receive news of monthly updates to the collection
• Progress report on NHS Evidence 18th Nov 2009 
• Download the NHS Evidence leaflet 'High quality evidence for high quality care'
• Eyes on Evidence | Issue 6 (Oct 2009) includes 'Mucosistis - management in cancer care'

Quick Links

Association for Children's Palliative Care (ACT) Association for Palliative Medicine BBC - 'How to have a good death' British Pain Society British Psychosocial Oncology Society  Children's Hospices UK Cochrane PaPaS Group Dept of Health + NHS England End of Life Care Programme + Gold Standards Framework + Liverpool Care Pathway European Association for Palliative Care Help the Hospices + Hospice information service + echoices id21: Palliative care in developing countries  International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care International Observatory on End of Life Care  National Cancer Research Institute + SuPaC Collaboratives:  CECo & COMPASS National Council for Palliative Care

NICE Guidance - supportive and palliative care in cancer Palliative Care Congress Palliative Care Research Society palliativedrugs.com Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care St Christopher's Hospice + Library + New Books World Hospice and Palliative Care Day