Each month, NHS Wales e-Library highlights special times throughout the year - to raise awareness and promote advocacy for health and well-being, important issues and interesting events.
This is also a good opportunity for us to share some of our great resources to support your evidence based practice!
February
Rare Disease Day 28th February
NHS Wales Library and Knowledge Services across Wales can support NHS Wales staff in getting current information and awareness on important health topics. To find more about contacting your local library service, please visit https://www.nhswls.org/contactyourlibrary
The NHS Wales e-Library would like to thank the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board Library and Knowledge Service team for their advice and collaboration in this edition of e-Library for Busy People.
Articles from the last three months on sexual and gender minorities
Search on all full-text peer reviewed articles on sexual and gender minorities
Journal of Gender-Based Violence
Journal of Marriage and the family
Journals with LGBTQ related titles
Purnell, L. and Fenkl, E. (2019) Handbook for culturally competent care. 1st edn. Cham: Springer.
More e-books on sexual and gender minorities
Please note that “sexual and gender minorities” is a term used in MeSH.
To learn more about MeSH and controlled vocabulary, please visit Exploring Evidence: mini series for literature searching - e-Library for Health
BMJ Best Practice: Search on “sexual minority”
More specialties in BMJ Best Practice
ClinicalKey: Search on "Sexual and gender minority” in Clinical Trials, Guidelines, and
More Clinical Overviews in Clinical Key
The All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre provide a crucial role in Wales in providing advice and guidelines on new medicines and make sure medicines are used effectively and appropriately in Wales.
Medicine Optimisation guidance and resources: https://awttc.nhs.wales/medicines-optimisation-and-safety/
These resources are open for any user.
iRefer is a radiological investigation tool to support appropriate investigations or imaging interventions for patients, and provides practical guidance based on the best available evidence. Filter for Adult or Paediatrics with a wide range of subcategories
The Great Ormond Street Hospital Manual of Children and Young People’s Nursing Practices, 2nd Edn. This guideline contains 35 chapters to support Children and Young People’s Nursing practices.
Royal Marsden Manual for Clinical Nursing and Cancer Procedures is a guideline with 28 chapters to support evidence-based clinical skills procedures relating to essential aspects of a person’s care
MedicinesComplete: provides medicines information and guidance on the safe use and administration of drugs and medicines. From diagnosis, to prescribing, dispensing, and administering medications, MedicinesComplete allows access to evidence-based support for health professionals.
Search in BNF, Search in BNFc,
MedicinesComplete contains a range of information and evidence relating to Drug References ( search in Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference )
NEWT Guidelines:
More Information about Medicines
BMJ Learning Engagement and Managing change for primary care networks
BMJ Learning Communication Skills
BMJ Learning Professional Skills
BMJ Learning Quality Improvement
28/02/2026
To see how the Genetic Alliance UK collaborates with Wales, please visit https://geneticalliance.org.uk/campaigns-and-research/our-work-across-uk-nations/
Search for Full-text Articles on Rare Disease from the last three months
Search for full-text articles on “Rare genetic” from the last three months
Search on Genomic or Genome journals
Clarke, A. (2020) Harper’s practical genetic counselling. 8th edn. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
Jorde, L. Carey, J. and Bamshad, M. (2020) Medical genetics. 6th edn. Philadelphia: Elsevier.
Riedijk, S. and Diderich, K. (2023) Prenatal Genetic Counseling. 1st ed. London; Academic Press.
BMJ Best Practice Genetics (Specialties)
BMJ Best Practice search on “rare genetic condition”
BMJ Best Practice: Browse calculators A-Z or by Speciality
ClinicalKey search on “genetic” in clinical overview
Clinical Key search on “rare genetic” in clinical overview
Clinical Key Browse Drug Monographs
The All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre provide a crucial role in Wales in providing advice and guidelines on new medicines and make sure medicines are used effectively and appropriately in Wales.
Medicine Optimisation guidance and resources: https://awttc.nhs.wales/medicines-optimisation-and-safety/
These resources are open for any user.
The Great Ormond Street Hospital Manual of Children and Young People’s Nursing Practices, 2nd Edn. This guideline contains 35 chapters to support Children and Young People’s Nursing practices.
Royal Marsden Manual for Clinical Nursing and Cancer Procedures:
Royal Marsden Manual search on Medicine
Royal Marsden Manual search on Medication (Procedures)
Available at: https://elh.nhs.wales/guidelines/guidelines-pages/royal-marsden-manual-of-clinical-nursing-procedures-10th-edition/
MedicinesComplete contains a range of information and evidence relating to:
Point of Need:
Drug Administration
Specialist
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Reference
NEWT Guidelines:
More Information about Medicines
BMJ Learning Public Health
BMJ Learning Team Dynamics for Primary Care Networks
BMJ Learning Engagement and Managing change for primary care networks
BMJ Learning Communication Skills
BMJ Learning Professional Skills
BMJ Learning Quality Improvement