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Kath Williams
CASH Service Officer
Tel. 01246 733232
Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH)
Service OverviewBackground
Collaborative model
Quality and development
Service features
Becoming a ContributorRole of a contributor
Benefits of contributing to CASH
How to get involved
Service Overview
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
CASH Database
A central repository for your current awareness itemsSpreading the workloadInformation becomes searchable and available to subscribe to as a newsfeedZinepal
Utilising the strengths of contributors
Knowledge of user requirementsInvolved in building the service Not “one size fits all”
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
Service features
Hosted on The Improvement Network (TIN) Website:
http://www.tin.nhs.uk/welcome/keeping‐up‐to‐date
Fully searchable online database:
http://www.tin.nhs.uk/welcome/keeping‐up‐to‐date/search‐database/
Categories50+ categories
Management topics
Conditions (Chronic Fatigue)
Patient Groups (Later Life)
Sectors – Primary Care, Secondary Care & Mental Health
Newsfeeds
http://www.tin.nhs.uk/welcome/keeping‐up‐to‐date/rss‐newsfeed‐menu/
What’s included?
Grey literatureManagement informationReports & statistics Parliamentary informationJournal articlesSystematic reviews
Current Awareness Bulletins
http://www.tin.nhs.uk/welcome/keeping‐up‐to‐date/bulletin‐menu/
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
End‐user support
Accessing the full‐text of journal articlesSubscribing to newsfeedsMore in‐depth guidance via the CASH User GuidesService Officer
User feedback
“A brilliant service which helps me to be efficient and effective in my work and keep up to date with current research.”
Becoming a Contributor
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thatscottishengineer/3083827089/sizes/m/
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
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
Support mechanismsService OfficerSupport materialsCASH Forum (Google group)
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.
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
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
Questions?
