Take you protein pills and put your helmet on: an odyssey into the future of information provision. The conception and development of an evidence-based depression theme month for NHS Direct (UK).

Karin Dearness*, André Tomlin*, Bob Gann**, Matt Jordan**
*Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health
** NHS Direct Online, UK
andre.tomlin@psych.ox.ac.uk

• Question formulation

Contacting all of the NHS Direct Call Centres and UK patient and consumer mental health groups.
• Literature search

Searching in a systematic and comprehensive way across all of the relevant evidence based resources.
• Critical appraisal

Assessing what is found for it's validity and applicability to the question.
• Authoring of content

Experienced clinicians authoring the summaries.
• Evidence screen

Experienced librarians referencing the material.
• Peer review

Leading experts in the field reviewing the final content.

This methodology has been developed by the Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health, University of Oxford, UK.
 

How was the website delivered?

• Design
  Simple design and interface to ensure compatibility with the highest possible proportion of the UK population.
• Compliance
  Compliant with international standards (e.g. W3).
• Tools
  Macromedia software with Linux server. Soon to be moved onto a Lotus server running Notes v5.
• Searching
  Simple search engine - Atomz.com
• Interactive content
  Diagnostic questionnaires, audio, video and chats.

Contact:

Mr André Tomlin andre.tomlin@psych.ox.ac.uk 
Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health www.cebmh.com
National electronic Library for Mental Health www.nelmh.org