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Essential Training Courses for NHS Staff

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Healthcare professionals need to make healthcare decisions based on good quality evidence. Make sure you have the right skills to find the right evidence effectively.

Staff in a training room facing the tutor
Staff in a training room facing the tutor


Sign-up to our training courses to develop your skills and learn how to use good quality, healthcare-specialist library resources. Courses available include:

  1. Health Library Induction – come along and have a tour of the library and learn about all the facilities and services you can use
  2. Health Library Induction Plus – learn what the Health Library can offer you and where you can get quick and easy access to full-text information
  3. Literature Searching Healthcare Databases – learn how to develop a search strategy and apply it to NHS specialist healthcare databases to find full-text articles
  4. Evidence-based Databases – find out more about higher-level databases such as the Cochrane Library, so that you can locate systematic reviews
  5. Critical Appraisal for Beginners: qualitative research – you’ll need to learn how to critically appraise the articles you find; start by practicing on a qualitative research paper
  6. Critical Appraisal for Beginners: randomised controlled trial – practice critical appraisal of an RCT research paper

Make the most of the Health Library, sign-up for our training courses - book online, contact the main counter or get in touch with the training team.

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