Need to identify trustworthy information on the web?

Can you distinguish quality assured websites on health from misleading ones? The Evaluating Internet Health Information tutorial from the National Library of Medicine is a fifteen minute tutorial that demonstrates the features of trustworthy websites and highlights elements common in unreliable websites to help you tell the difference. For more information on surfing for prime reliable internet sources, see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/webeval/webeval.html

eLibrary

eLibrary NHS Scotland is thought of as one of the best sites for guidelines that are appropriate to Ireland. It includes open access content on clinical guidelines, policy documents, critically evaluated evidence based websites and more.

for more information, please visit: http://www.elib.scot.nhs.uk/

CHAIN -Information Network for people employed in health and social care

CHAIN is a network of people, not organisations. CHAIN - Contact, Help, Advice and Information Network - is an online network for people working in health and social care. It is based around specific areas of interest, and gives people a simple and informal way of contacting each other to exchange ideas and share knowledge. CHAIN is multi-professional and cross organisational. It is supported by a number of organisations including the H.S.E. and the Institute of Public Health in Ireland. CHAIN is free to join. As a CHAIN member, you can use the network in many ways including:

• Searching the online directory in order to contact other members directly
• Finding out about forthcoming events, conferences and research funding opportunities through messages targeted by the CHAIN facilitator
• Requesting information from groups of CHAIN members, or publicise your own event
• Downloading resources from CHAIN events

To find out more information about joining CHAIN or informing colleagues about it go to http://chain.ulcc.ac.uk/chain/index.html

Information Leaflet: http://chain.ulcc.ac.uk/chain/chain_leaflet(Nov07).pdf