Learning Difficulities - Learning about Intellectual Disabilities and Health - A valuable resources for medical and healthcare students and staff

   Learning about Intellectual Disabilities and Health is a web-based learning resource for medical and health care students and practitioners. It was launched at the Houses of Parliament on 6th February, 2002 in the presence of Jacqui Smith, the Minister responsible for policy and services for people with intellectual disabilities at the Department of Health [...]

FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER: AN OVERVIEW.

   FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER: AN OVERVIEW. Raja A S Mukherjee: S Hollins: J Turk. March 2007, JRSM, volume 99. 2006 pg 298-302, with permission from the Royal Society of Medicine Press, London.
Abstract: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders is an umbrella term for a set of disorders caused by the consumption of alcohol by a [...]

Libraries & the NHS - Peter Hill Review - Tooke Review - Darzi Review

   Report of a National Review of NHS Health Library Services in England: From knowledge to health in the 21st Century. , Peter Hill Review, March 2007
This Review has highlighted the centrality of library, knowledge and information services within the NHS and describes four key purposes for library and knowledge service:

Clinical decision making by patients, their [...]

In the Know - Using Infomation to Make Better Decisions

   In the Know - Using Infomation to Make Better Decisions, a discussion paper, Audit Commission, Februay 2008
Abstract: This paper is not quite the same as other Audit Commission studies. Instead of analysing issues and presenting solutions, this paper aims to encourage people to think about the information they use whenever they make decisions. And [...]