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The e-Library for busy people: September

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! 

September’s events include: 

17/09/2025 

25/09/2025 

 

World Patient Safety Day: Safe care for every newborn and every child 

Sway: World Patient Safety Day 

 

Articles on Patient Safety and Children 

e-Journals: 

The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health 

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology 

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 

Pediatric Diabetes 

International Breastfeeding Journal 

Child: Child, Health and Development 

Pediatric Rheumatology 

BMC Pediatrics 

Pediatric Quality and Safety 

 

More e-Journals on Paediatric Care  

  

e-Books 

Cheung, R., et al. (2017) 100 cases in paediatrics. 2nd edn. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 

Crisp, S. and Rainbow, J. (2013) Emergencies in paediatrics and neonatology. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Hain, R. and Jassal, S. (2016) Paediatric palliative medicine (Oxford specialist handbooks in paediatrics). 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Lai, W. W. et al. (2022) Echocardiography in pediatric and congenital heart disease: from fetus to adult. 3rd edn. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. 

Smith, S. (2023) Advanced paediatric life support: a practical approach to emergencies. 7th edn. Newark, NY: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 

Shaw, V. (ed) (2020) Clinical paediatric dietetics. 5th edn. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell  

Cameron, P. et al. (eds) (2024) Textbook of paediatric emergency medicine. 4th edn.  Amsterdam: Elsevier. 

More e-Books on Paediatrics 

 

Evidence Summaries / Clinical Decision Support Tools 

BMJ Best Practice: Paediatrics and adolescent Medicine Specialty 

BMJ Best Practice: Infectious Diseases Speciality  

BMJ Best Practice: Asthma in Children (topic) 

BMJ Best Practice: Food Allergy (topic) 

BMJ Best Practice: Paediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (topic) 

BMJ Best Practice: Severe Combined Immunodeficency (topic) 

BMJ Best Practice: Toxic ingestions in children (topic) 

More specialties in BMJ Best Practice  

 

ClinicalKey: Infectious disease Search in Clinical Overviews 

ClinicalKey: Immunology Search in Clinical Overviews 

ClinicalKey: Microbiology Search in Clinical Overviews 

ClinicalKey: Chest Pain in Children and Adolescents (Overview) 

ClinicalKey: Pediatric Medication Errors (Overview) 

ClinicalKey: Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) (Overview) 

 

Search on Children in Clinical Overviews 

Search on Pediatric OR Child in Clinical Overviews 

More Evidence Summaries 

 

Guidelines 

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. 

Paediatric guidance 46 results 

The GreatOrmond 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 Safety 

 

Medicines Information 

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 BNFc,  

Pediatric Injectable Drugs  

 Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation 

MedicinesComplete contains a range of information and evidence relating to Drug References ( search in Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference ) 

 

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 Information about Medicines 

 

e-Learning 

BMJ Learning Professional Skills 

BMJ Learning Quality Improvement 

BMJ Learning Safety 

BMJ Learning Paediatrics 

More eLearning resources 

 

World Pharmacists Day: Think Health, Think Pharmacist 

25/09/2025 

Sway: World Pharmacists Day 

The following links will live search articles and book chapters on the named topics 

Search on Community and Ambulatory Pharmacy 

Search on: Pharma* (This will search all key words beginning with “pharma” such as: pharmacy, pharmacology, pharmacist, etc. ) 

The * is known as a “wild-card” and lets you search for multiple words at the same time.  

If you want to know more about this technique and other searching tips, visit our Exploring Evidence mini-series for literature searching or come to one of our Finding Information Webinars 

  

e-Journals: 

British Journal of Pharmacology 

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 

Protein and Cell 

Drug Resistance Updates 

Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin 

Journal of ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 

Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology  

Trends in Pharmacological Sciences 

International journal of Clinical pharmacy  

More e-Journals 

 

eBooks: 

Ashley, C. and Dunleavy, A. (2018) The renal drug handbook : the ultimate prescribing guide for renal practitioners. Fifth edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis. 

 

Brunton, L.L. and Knowllmann B.C. (eds) (2023) Goodman & Gilman’s: the pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 14th edn. New York: McGraw Hill. 

Burchum, J.R. and Rosenthal L.D. (2019) Lehne’s pharmacology for nursing care. 10th edn. St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier. 

Huang, S. et al. (2022) Atkinson’s principles of clinical pharmacology. 4th edn. London: Academic Press. 

Hilal-Dandan, R. and Brunton, L.L. (eds) (2014) Goodman & Gilman’s: manual of pharmacology and therapeutics. 2nd edn. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education. 

Horowitz, M. and Taylor, D. (2024) The Maudsley deprescribing guidelines: antidepressants, benzodiazepines, gabapentinoids and z-drugs. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. 

Mwebe, H. (2021) Psychopharmacology: a mental health professionals guide to commonly used medications. 2nd edn. St. Albans: Critical Publishing. 

Rebar, C.R., Heimgartner, N.M and Gersch, C. et al. (eds) (2022) Pharmacology made incredibly easy! 5th edn. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health. 

Ritter, J. et al. (2024) Rang and Dale’s pharmacology. 10th edn. London: Elsevier. 

Stahl, S.M. (2024) Stahl’s essential psychopharmacology: prescriber’s guide. 8th edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Taylor, D.M., Barnes, T.R.E. and Young, A.H. (2025) The Maudsley prescribing guidelines in psychiatry. 15th edn. London: Wiley-Blackwell. 

Taylor, D.M., Gaughran, F. and Pillinger, T. (2020) The Maudsley practice guidelines for physical health conditions in psychiatry. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell. 

Thomas, D. (ed) (2019) Clinical pharmacy education, practice and research: clinical pharmacy, drug information, pharmacovigilance, pharmacoeconomics and clinical research. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 

Wiffen, P. et al. (eds) (2017) Oxford handbook of clinical pharmacy. 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

 

 

More eBooks 

 

Evidence Summaries / Clinical Decision Support Tools 

BMJ Best Practice Allergy and immunology (Specialties)  

BMJ Best Practice Critical Care Medicine (Specialties)  

BMJ Best Practice Health Maintenance (Specialties) 

BMJ Best Practice: Browse calculators  A-Z or by Speciality  

 

ClinicalKey Prevention of Adverse Drug Events in Hosptials (Clinical Overview) 

Clinical Key Browse Drug Monographs  

More Evidence Summaries 

 

Guidelines 

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/ 

 

Medicines Information 

MedicinesComplete contains a range of information and evidence relating to: 

Point of Need:  

Drug Administration  

Specialist   

Complementary and Alternative Medicine  

Reference  

 

 

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 Information about Medicines 

e-Learning 

BMJ Learning Allergy  

BMJ Learning Prescribing 

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 

More eLearning resources