ASCAS

ASCAS (Acute Services Current Awareness Service) Project

Project Head: Dr Janet Harrison

Project Research Associate: Dr Samuel Nikoi

Project Duration: July 2005 - December 2005

Project Description: ASCAS (Acute Services Current Awareness Service) monitored over one hundred key websites and highlights new reports and guidelines relevant to the clinical information needs of specialist NHS staff. The project was funded by the Trent Workforce Development Confederation and is part of the Greenfield Medical Library Services, University of Nottingham. ASCAS is targeted at Clinician, Service Directors, Heads of Department, Training Directors, Consultants, Clinical Nurses, and also Medical Researchers. Subject areas covered by the service include, Medicine, Surgery, Diagnostic and Allied Health, Nursing, New Reports and Guidelines, Research and Development, and Women and Children. An evaluation exercise was carried out by the Department of Information Science to assess the level of satisfaction of the service.

Project Partners: Greenfield Medical Library and Trent Multi-Professional
Deanery

Publications:
Harrison, J., Nikoi, S., Stanton, W. and Darlington, N., 'New Tricks for Old Dogs?' Providing an electronic acute awareness service for clinical staff in a hospital setting', 9th World Congress on Health Information and Libraries, Bahia, Brazil, September 2005. Available from:http://www.icml9.org/program/track1/public/documents/Janet Harrison-170246.pdf.

Harrison, J. and Nikoi, S.K., 'Click, Click Quick' An electronic acute services current awareness service for the NHS' 10th European Conference of Medical Health Libraries, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 2006. Available from http://www.eahilconfcluj.ro/scientific_programme.html

Contact: Dr Janet Harrison,
Department of Information Science.
Loughborough University,
Loughborough.
Leicestershire.
LE11 3TU.
Email: j.harrison@lboro.ac.uk
Telephone: 01509 223055