{"id":18,"date":"2020-09-08T15:56:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2020-09-08T15:56:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:56:21","slug":"official-publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/official-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Official publications<\/h2>\n<p>See the Library&#8217;s central\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/resources\/official\/\">Official publications pages<\/a>\u00a0for general resources, particularly the British Government Publications Collection and the European Documentation Centre.<\/p>\n<h3>NHS and Department of Health sources<\/h3>\n<h4>Associated departments and agencies<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqc.org.uk\/\">Care Quality Commission<\/a>: joint official body which monitors quality standards in social care, health care and mental health care<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dh.gov.uk\/\">Department of Health<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ic.nhs.uk\/\">Health and Social Care Information Centre<\/a>: coordinates health and adult social care data collection<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpa.org.uk\/\">Health Protection Agency<\/a>: monitors infectious diseases, environmental health risks from toxic chemicals, poisons or radiation, and is responsible for implementing emergency measures in a crisis (eg bioterrorism)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.nhs.uk\/\">National Library for Health<\/a>: NHS continuing professional development support portal, offering access to policy and guidance, information resources, and specialist knowledge support sections for different health professions. See the following sections:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nice.org.uk\/guidance\">Guidance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evidence.nhs.uk\/\">Evidence<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhsconfed.org\/\">NHS Confederation<\/a>: communication and partnership organisation for NHS member organisations; gives access to policy papers and newsletters<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nice.org.uk\/\">NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence)<\/a>: body that examines the efficacy and cost effectiveness of medicines and therapies, and provides guidance on their use (the full-text of NICE guidelines are available from the site)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>NHS health authorities and trusts<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/\">NHS Choices<\/a>: public gateway site for help finding local doctors, dentists, pharmacies, hospitals, and social care services. Contains directory information about NHS health authorities and trusts:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/ServiceDirectories\/Pages\/AcuteTrustListing.aspx\">NHS health authorities and trusts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/ServiceDirectories\/Pages\/ServiceSearchAdditional.aspx?SearchType=PCT&amp;ServiceType=Trust\">Finding a local primary care trust<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/NHSEngland\/aboutnhs\/Pages\/Authoritiesandtrusts.aspx\">How do NHS trusts and authorities work?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official publications See the Library&#8217;s central\u00a0Official publications pages\u00a0for general resources, particularly the British Government Publications Collection and the European Documentation Centre. NHS and Department of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/official-publications\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56681,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}