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e-Library for Busy People: July

Each month, your NHS Wales e-Library shines a spotlight on special times throughout the year – increasing awareness and promoting advocacy of health and wellbeing, important issues and interesting events.

It also gives us a great opportunity to share some of our fantastic resources to help support your evidence-based practice!

 

01-31st July. Are you traveling abroad this summer? Remember to check on: Travel Health

28th July 2025 World Hepatitis Day : Lets break it down

 

Travel Health

Trending Topics on Travel Health, as outlined on Travel Health Pro are:

Mpox

Measles

Oropouche

Yellow Fever

Ebola Virus

Polio

 

e-Journals

 More e-Journals on Global and Public Health

 

 

e-Books

Auerbach, N.S., Cushing, P.S. and Harris, T.A. (eds) (2017) Auerbach's wilderness medicine. 7th edn. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Dallimore, J. et al. (eds) (2023) Oxford handbook of expedition and wilderness medicine. 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Chambers, J.A. (2021) Field guide to global health and disaster medicine. 1st edn. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Elsevier.

Keystone, J.S. et al. (2019) Travel medicine. 4th edn. Edinburgh: Elsevier.

 

 

More e-Books on Travel, Tropical or Wilderness

More e-Books on disease control and prevention

 

Evidence Summaries / Clinical Decision Support Tools

BMJ Best Practice: Infectious Diseases speciality

BMJ Best Practice: Rabies

BMJ Best Practice: Yellow Fever

BMJ Best Practice: Chikungunya Virus Infection

BMJ Best Practice: Polio

BMJ Best Practice: Mpox

 

BMJ Best Practice: Travel Search

More specialities in BMJ Best Practice

 

Clinical Key: Infectious disease (clinical overview search)

Clinical Key: Travel (clinical overview search)

More specialities in Clinical Key

More Evidence Summaries

 

Guidelines

Travel Health Pro: an open Access resource for travellers and health professionals providing travel health services in the UK.

 A Summer Travel Advice page was updated on 16th June 2025

 

Public Health Wales: Travel Vaccinations

Public Health Wales: Mpox

Medicines Information

MedicinesComplete (Search Travel Vaccinations and Precautions in BNF,  Search in BNF, or Search in BNFc) MedicinesComplete includes a variety of information and evidence relating to Drug Reference (search in Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference) and guidance for travelling abroad with prescription drugs or medical equipment (in Palliative Care Formulary)

More Medicines Information

 

e-Learning

Fever in the returning traveller

Introduction to mpox

Vaccine hesitancy

 

 

Infectious Diseases 

Professional skills

 

 

Hepatitis

LibrarySearch on: Hepatitis

e-Journals

 

More journals on Gastroenterology and Hepatology

More journals on Hepatitis

 

e-Books

Bloom, S., Webster, G. and Marks, D. (eds) (2022) Oxford handbook of gastroenterology and hepatology. 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Beattie, R. M. et al. (2018) Oxford specialist handbook of paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Marks, D. and Harbord, M. (2013) Emergencies in gastroenterology and hepatology. 1st edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Kasper, D. L. et al. (eds) (2017) Harrison’s gastroenterology and hepatology. 3rd edn. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.

 

Talley, N. J. et al. (eds) (2016) Practical gastroenterology and hepatology board review toolkit. 2nd ed. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.

More books on hepatitis

 

Evidence Summaries / Clinical Decision Support Tools

BMJ Best Practice Autoimmune Hepatitis

BMJ Best Practice Hepatitis A

BMJ Best Practice Hepatitis B

BMJ Best Practice Hepatitis C

BMJ Best Practice Hepatitis D

BMJ Best Practice Hepatitis E

 

Clinical Key Hepatitis A Clinical overview

Clinical Key Hepatitis B Clinical overview

Clinical Key Hepatitis C Clinical overview

Clinical Key Hepatitis D Clinical overview

Clinical Key Hepatitis E Clinical overview

Clinical Key Search on Hepatitis in clinical overviews

Clinical Key search on Hepatic Impairment in Clinical Trials

 

Guidelines

The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical and Cancer Nursing Procedures

Available at: https://elh.nhs.wales/guidelines/guidelines-pages/royal-marsden-manual-of-clinical-nursing-procedures-10th-edition/

Search on Hepatitis

Search on Hepatic Impairment  

The Great Ormond Street Hospital Manual of Children and Young People’s Nursing Practices 2nd Edition:

Available at: LibrarySearch

Chapter: Administration of Blood Components and Products

 

Medicines Information

MedicinesComplete:

MedicinesComplete (Search in Palliative Care Formulary or Search in BNF, or Search in BNFc)

Medicines Complete Search on Hepatic Impairment or Hepatitis

MedicinesComplete includes a variety of information and evidence relating to:

 Drug Reference (search in Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference)

Drug Administration 

NEWT Guidelines:

  • NEWT Guidelines includes information on how to prepare solid dose formulations for administration via enteral feeding tubes, and how to solve problems such as tube blockage and enteral feed interactions 

More Medicines information

e-Learning

BMJ Learning Hepatic Impairment or Hepatitis

BMJ Learning Step by Step: Diagnosing Chronic Hepatitis C in Primary Care

BMJ Learning: Liver (9 courses)

BMJ Learning Communication Skills

BMJ Learning Professional Skills

BMJ Learning Quality Improvement

BMJ Learning Wellbeing

BMJ Learning Care of Older People

More e-Learning resources