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!
June events include:
16/06/2025-21/06/2025
01/06/2025-30/06/2025
#LearningDisabilityWeek2025
Catalogue Search: (Learning OR intellectual OR develop*) AND disabilit*
British Journal of Learning Disabilities
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities
Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
BMJ Best Practice: Assessment of learning difficulty and cognitive delay (topic)
BMJ Best Practice: DiGeorge Syndrome (topic)
BMJ Best Practice: Down Syndrome (topic)
BMJ Best Practice: Cerebral Palsy (topic)
BMJ Best Practice: Autism Spectrum Disorder (topic)
BMJ Best Practice: Genetic (Specialty)
ClinicalKey: Intellectual Developmental Disorders in Children (Clinical Overview)
ClinicalKey: Care of the Adult With Autism and Other Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Clinical Overview)
ClinicalKey: Williams Syndrome (Clinical Overview)
ClinicalKey: Fragile X Syndrome (Clinical Overview)
ClinicalKey: Down Syndrome (Clinical Overview)
ClinicalKey: Cerebral Palsy (Clinical Overview)
ClinicalKey: Autism Spectrum Disorder (Clinical Overview)
The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical and Cancer Nursing Procedures:
Chapter 5: Communication, psychological wellbeing and safeguarding
Chapter 9: Patient comfort and supporting personal hygiene
Available at: https://elh.nhs.wales/guidelines/guidelines-pages/royal-marsden-manual-of-clinical-nursing-procedures-10th-edition/
MedicinesComplete:
MedicinesComplete (Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference or Search in BNF, or Search in BNFc)
MedicinesComplete includes a variety of information and evidence relating to:
Drug Administration
NEWT Guidelines:
NEWT Guidelines includes information on how to support patients with swallowing difficulties, prepare solid dose formulations for administration via enteral feeding tubes, and how to solve problems such as tube blockage and enteral feed interactions
BMJ Learning Neurodiversity in Primary Care
BMJ Learning A practical guide to diagnosing autism in pre-school children
BMJ Learning Hospital presentations: swallowing difficulties
BMJ Learning Communication Skills
BMJ Learning Emotional Intelligence
BMJ Learning Professional Skills
BMJ Learning Quality Improvement
BMJ Learning Wellbeing
LGBTQ+ - The Practice of Health
Supporting your LGBTQ+ workforce | NHS Employers
Some resources on:
Health Inequalities which can be unique within queer communities
Hidden Figures: LGBT Health Inequalities in the UK – LGBT Foundation
Pride in Ageing: End of Life Care – LGBT Foundation
Palliative and end of life care for LGBTQ+ people | Marie Curie
Catalogue Search: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion AND LGBT
Catalogue Search: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion AND Queer
Catalogue Search: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion AND Gender Identity
Catalogue Search: LGBTQ and ageing or aging
Catalogue Search: LGBTQ and Young People
Journal of Bisexuality (2022-2024 available)
Nursing and Residential Care**
Sexual and reproductive healthcare
** see below for all Mark Allen titles available via the e-Library
Journals on Palliative or End of Life
Articles on Wellbeing and Nursing
** Catalogue Search on all Mark Allen titles available from NHS Wales e-Library
BMJ Best Practice: Geriatric Medicine (specialty)
BMJ Best Practice: Infectious Diseases
BMJ Best Practice: Atypical genitalia in neonates (topic)
BMJ Best Practice: Care of Transgender Adults (topic)
Clinical Key LGBT and Dementia clinical trials
Clinical Key LGBT and Young People clinical overviews
The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical and Cancer Nursing Procedures:
Chapter 5 Communication, Psychological Wellbeing and Safeguarding
Chapter 27 Living With and Beyond Cancer
Available at: https://elh.nhs.wales/guidelines/guidelines-pages/royal-marsden-manual-of-clinical-nursing-procedures-10th-edition/
MedicinesComplete:
MedicinesComplete (Search in Palliative Care Formulary or 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)
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
BMJ Learning Neurodiversity in Primary Care (3 courses)
BMJ Learning Communication Skills
BMJ Learning Professional Skills
BMJ Learning Quality Improvement
BMJ Learning Wellbeing
BMJ Learning Care of Older People
BMJ Learning: Palliative Care
[SD1]Update to June - I’ve changed it in the Welsh translation