1. HCLU UPDATE David Stewart 20 April 2006 LIHNN/HCLU Briefing

2. NHS Reorganisation One north west SHA 1 st July 23 PCTs - probably 1 ambulance trust SHA roles – papers emerging SHA CE – any time now SHA HQ - Manchester

3. Deaneries DH letter 16 March Multi-professional approach Coterminous with new SHA boundaries Strong link to SHA workforce functions “..urgent action now required..”

4. HCLU Review Review & implementation plan accepted by HCLU Board Review is made public on ADITUS today Generally very positive Will be changes to HCLU structure & possible move

5. LKDN Closer working will NLH central team NLH Quality Forum being established Annual stats collection National survey of AfC results – November 06

6. NLH Muir’s latest paper: Best current evidence strategy New NLH posts Comms lead: Colin Davies New Folio courses New eToC service in May…

7. NLH - 2 My Library – view & save news feeds; view list of my resources NW pilot of Dialog elinks document delivery – roll-out to all single sites in LIHNN Evaluation of Doc Del in NW / VDX system in SW

8. NW eResources - 1 GM OPAC – procured UnionCatalogue beta testing: improved search; administrators being allocated now …. Local libraries need to update information & check records JAMA – waiting to finalise Athens authentication

9. NW eResources - 2 J Clin Nurs & J Psyc & Mental Health Nurs – should be available in next 2 weeks Oxford Textbooks of Medicine & Surgery available now via MyiLibrary – via Aditus or NLH