Health Libraries

The Health Libraries at UHNM

There are two health libraries at UHNM one at each site, they are great places to study and work but lots of our information can be accessed online too. The health libraries are available to all staff, clinical and non-clinical, and students on placement at UHNM.  Information about the health libraries can be accessed online in a number of ways:

Find out how we support nurses and healthcare assistants to use the available resources and gain access to free training here:

https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/specialistsupport/supportfornursinghealthcareassistants/

How the health libraries support staff undertaking research at UHNM

The Health Library Service is here to support researchers working for our NHS partners. Research may include many different aspects of healthcare practice - clinical research, clinical audits, quality improvement, innovation, new developments, and individual projects. So, no matter the size of your project - big or small - we are here to support you. Learn about the different ways we can support staff undertaking research and access our research toolkit here:

https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/specialistsupport/supportfornhsresearchers/

Literature searching/rapid reviews

Literature searching and finding the evidence is a big part of what our professionally qualified health librarians do…

NHS staff undertaking research can request that a literature search is carried out on their behalf. These will normally be undertaken by a specialist librarian, with input from you. You will be provided with a report detailing the articles that match your search question which you can then access and read. Please note that this service is only to support your work and not courses of study. If you want to be kept up to date after the search is complete, ask for a literature search alert to be set up. Find out more about our literature search service here:

https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/specialistsupport/literaturesearchservice/

 

Further useful information

Our current awareness pages on critical appraisal and QI may also be of interest if you are undertaking a research project. They can be found here:

https://www.protopage.com/pgmclibrary#Critical_Appraisal and https://www.protopage.com/pgmclibrary#Quality_and_Improvement

Finally, you may want to sign up for regular email newsletters tailored to your own broad topics of interest by using KnowledgeShare. Email the library to find out more:

County:library@uhnm.nhs.uk

RSUH: health.library@keele.ac.uk

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