National Heart Forum

Victoria House, 7th Floor
Southampton Row
London WC1B 4AD
England

Phone: 020 7831 7420
Fax: 020 3077 5964
Email: [email protected]

Information services

The Information Services (IS) team at the NHF facilitates the interchange and dissemination of information to all in the chronic disease prevention area to support the NHF vision of a healthy society.

Our research shows that new ideas and practices spread through interpersonal contact and communication. If all public health programmes include networking interaction it may improve adoption of policies and research and aid the diffusion of new ideas. By sharing best practice and information rapidly we build a stronger community that can respond to challenges and progress health initiatives more quickly. This will lead to an acceleration in the prevention of avoidable chronic disease.

The IS team collaborates with many organisations. We are also members of CILIP, the Health Library Group (HLG), European Association for Health and Information Libraries (EAHIL), UKeIG, Independent Health Libraries in London (CHILL) and more.

We welcome working in partnership with other organisations like ouselves and can provide you with our expertise in delivering high quality information projects. Please contact us if you want to know more.

Services we provide

Chronic Disease eLibrary

Briefing services

NHF Twitter

PANacea for physical activity, nutrition and alcohol information

GLOBALink for tobacco control information

Obesity Learning Centre for obesity information

Research

Objectives

Rapid sharing of latest news, research and policy in chronic disease prevention
Using innovative, new technology to disseminate information
Aiming to stimulate new ideas in prevention
Bringing people together in online networks

What's new in Information Services

January issue of ORB is now out
17 January 2013 The January issue of our round up of the best government reports, data, research and other resources in public health is now available. Read the full...
New case study on the OLC: FitFans Adult Weight Management Programme
17 January 2013 The latest case study available from the OLC is about the FitFans project, which has been commissioned by the Health Authority in Hull to provide...
Alive 'N' Kicking case study now available on the OLC website
14 January 2013 A new case study has been added to the Obesity Learning Centre. To find out more and read a summary of the case study visit the OLC.
NHF Information needs 2012 survey results published
04 January 2013 A brief report on the results of the NHF Information Service's team annual survey into use of our information services and information needs of our...
NHF Poster wins prize at NHS/HE Conference 2012
14 November 2012 The NHF is pleased to announce that our poster entry for the NHS/HE Conference 2012 has won a prize.

What our users have said

“A good way to keep up to date on current public health research, in one handy weekly email.”

“It provides an excellent digest that saves having to keep abreast of lots of journals etc.”

“Connecting people working in tobacco control and sharing of ideas and news makes us more effective”

“Up to date information which I use to up date my clinical practice and share with colleagues at our monthly meetings.”

[It allows] “networking with colleagues doing similar research - knowledge exchange.”

Email a friend