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Acute Services Current Awareness Service

A multi-disciplinary information update service for clinical staff

This pilot project, originally funded by the Workforce Development Confederation, has been running for two years and will cease on 31 May 2006.

About ASCAS

ASCAS monitors over one hundred key websites and highlights new reports and guidelines relevant to the clinical information needs of specialist NHS staff. The project is funded by the Trent Workforce Development Confederation and is being developed by Nicola Darlington at the Greenfield Medical Library, University of Nottingham.

Latest items

In the News
  • Leading doctors write to trusts urging every them to stop paying for alternative medicine 24/05/06
  • WHO urges drug trial registration 19/05/06
  • Doctors survey reports that training reforms risk patient safety 19/05/06
   New Reports and Guidelines
  • MHRA - Final report on TGN1412 clinical trial 25/05/06
  • Map of health research funding 25/05/06
  • NICE - appraisal consultation document on hormonal treatments for early breast cancer 25/05/06
   Research and Development
  • Placenta praevia risk increased after IVF 25/05/06
  • Prostate therapy benefits doubted 25/05/06
  • First clinical trial for women with hereditary breast cancer launched 4/05/06

Continuing Professional Development

  • RCSENG advice for SHOs 19/05/06
  • PMETB - Principles of surgical training 28/04/06
  • The curriculum framework for the surgical care practitioner 5/04/06

Medicine

  • All-Party Parliamentary Hepatology Group Report on Hepatitis C 24/05/06
  • Diabetic Foot Guide 19/05/06
  • DoH - Guidelines on congential heart disease 12/05/06

Surgery

  • Prostate therapy benefits doubted 25/05/06
  • NICE - appraisal consultation document on hormonal treatments for early breast cancer 25/05/06
  • NICE guidance on Percutaneous disc decompression using coblation for lower back pain 25/05/06

Women and Children

  • Placenta praevia risk increased after IVF 25/05/06
  • NICE gudiance on Laparoscopic helium plasma coagulation for endometriosis 24/05/06
  • FSID survey of parents 12/05/06

Nursing

  • Diabetic Foot Guide 19/05/06
  • BMA - Reporting Adverse Drug Reactions 12/05/06
  • NMC- Standards of proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers 4/05/06

Diagnostics and Allied Health

  • NICE guidance on High dose rate brachytherapy for prostate cancer 24/05/06
  • BMA - Reporting Adverse Drug Reactions 12/05/06
  • HFEA - Authority decision on PGD 12/05/06