NHS Evidence - skin disorders

NHS Evidence: Skin Disorders was one of 30 specialist collections funded by NICE through NHS Evidence, and until the end of March 2011 it was delivered by the CEBD. As from March 2011, NHS Evidence has launched a specialist evidence service to replace the specialist collections. The new service is easy to search and provides access to a wider choice of quality specialist evidence content. NHS Evidence is managed by NICE.

The reorganisation has meant that our Centre has lost our information specialist, Dr Douglas Grindlay, although we are pleased to announce that he has since taken up a post as information specialist in the new Centre for Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine in the veterinary medicine school at The University of Nottingham.

Professor Hywel Williams has been kept on as the dermatology expert adviser in the new NICE NHS Evidence resource. Annual evidence updates on new and important evidence covering common and important skin conditions such as acne, eczema, psoriasis and skin cancer will continue, and the first new-look skin cancer update appeared in September 2011.

NHS Evidence allows everyone working in health and social care to access a wide range of health information to help them deliver quality patient care. It can be accessed at  www.evidence.nhs.uk