Stay current with our expertly curated bulletins
Keep yourself informed and up to date with our current awareness bulletins, expertly curated by NHS Librarians. These bulletins provide you with the latest insights across a wide range of important health and social care topics. Our librarians meticulously review recent literature, ensuring that each bulletin is packed with high-quality, relevant evidence.
Featured bulletin
NHS Ayrshire & Arran's monthly current awareness bulletin aims to highlight relevant reports and peer reviewed literature in emergency and unscheduled care. The bulletin focuses on efforts to improve patient flow, reduce waiting times and alternative care models.
Unscheduled CareBulletin topics
- AI and health
- Alcohol harm prevention
- Anchor institutions and community wealth building
- Childhood healthy weight
- Climate change
- Dementia
- Diabetes
- Domestic violence and child abuse
- Education
- Forensic mental health
- Gambling harms
- General practice
- Health inequalities
- Inpatient psychiatry
- Long COVID
- Midwifery and Obstetrics
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Palliative care
- Public Health Digest
- Quality
- Realistic Medicine
- Special bulletins
- Speech and language therapy
- Unscheduled care
- Vaping and tobacco control
Subscribing to bulletins
On each bulletin's page, you'll find an email contact where you can request to be added to its mailing list.
Every effort has been made to ensure the publications on this site meet accessibility standards. If you need a bulletin in a different format please contact the responsible library service.
Other current awareness services
NHS England
There are a number of current awareness bulletins produced by NHS knowledge and library services across England.
You can see the different topics available, however you may not be able to access the item as libraries are often unable to manage sign-ups from individuals not at their organisation.
NHS England: Current awareness services
Alerting services
You can set up alerts on the library search, in databases, and specific journals. find out more on The Knowledge Network Alerting services section.