Training and evidence resources

Turas 

NHS Education for Scotland (NES) are developing a range of educational and induction resources, which are hosted on Turas.  This is available for all health and social care staff and volunteers deployed to support clinical services, but will be particularly useful in the event of people needing redeployed to other areas.  Included is input from Medicine, NMAHP, Psychology, Pharmacy and the Clinical Skills Managed Education Network.

Future Learn

Covid-19 critical care: understanding and application - open course by the University of Edinburgh

Managing Covid-19 in General Practice - open course by St George's University of London

Covid-19 Diagnostic and Testing - open course with focus on ow to improve testing capacity in low-income settings.

Covid-19: tackling the novel coronavirus - open course by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

University of the Highland and Islands

List of relevant resources and guidance compiled by the Highland Health Science Library.

Refworks folders, updated regularly, on epidemiology, incidence and prevalence of the illness.

Public Health England

Daily digest of available evidence on the epidemiology of the disease

E-learning programme suitable for health and social care professionals (free of charge)

Elsevier

Compilation of free resources (research, guidelines, articles and book chapters) on COVID-19.

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine

Rapid evidence collection

CABI

CABI has made 17,000 relevant records on coronavirus from Global Health database and CAB Abstracts free to access for a limited time. The coronavirus content including research on epidemiology, prevention, and control of SARS and MERS, and research on animal coronaviruses, has been made open access as a way of contributing to the response to the outbreak.

To gain the access, visit the Global Health website, go to ‘login’ and follow the registration instructions and copy and paste voucher code CV23359XB80 into ‘redeem a voucher’ section.