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Complete your registration form to get evidence updates

 Do you want to get the latest high-level evidence straight to your inbox?

Let us know your clinical and professional interests. We’ll set up your profile on KnowledgeShare for you. You’ll receive bespoke updates straight to your inbox.

KnowledgeShare is a system developed within the NHS for use by NHS staff. We use this service to provide you with regular evidence updates.

Complete our registration form to get your updates

Get the form from our website or pick one up at the library. Here’s a little help to complete the form:

screen-shot of the registration form for KnowledgeShare


1. Let us know who you are – provide your full name

2. Let us know about your workplace – we use you job and workplace details to fine tune your evidence just for you.

3. What are you interested in? Let us know about the clinical conditions or risk factors that you want to know about. This might include long term conditions, physical diseases, mental health conditions or lifestyle risk factors. [Note you can leave this blank if you are not looking for clinical information.]

4. Add your professional interests. This might include more managerial or educational topics such as service delivery, patient safety, managing people or research. [Note you can leave this blank if you are not looking for this type of information.].

You must have entered something for either conditions or professional interests.

5 If you are looking for information about patients help us to focus the results by providing an age group.

6. Let us know the healthcare settings you are interested in – is it in the community or a GP practice, in an acute hospital on the wards, outpatient clinic or theatre?

You can use KnowledgeShare to share your interests and connect with other KnowledgeShare members either within your own Trust or with the wider community.

7. You can choose to share your contact information with other members of KnowledgeShare. Tick the box if you want to do this.

8. You can choose to share your professional interests with other members of KnowledgeShare. Tick the box if you want to do this.

9. The library service is hoping to develop library bulletins in the future. You can choose to receive these by ticking this box.

10. Make sure that your read the privacy statement on the second page. Then sign and date it to indicate that you agree to allow us to sign you up.

Once we have created your profile you will receive a welcome email. Then you’ll start to receive your bulletins from your assigned librarian. If you need anything changing to your bulletins please contact your assigned librarian and we’ll adjust your profile.

More help

Just ask a member of staff at the Health Library, contact your Outreach Librarian or contact the eResources Librarian if you want more information or need more help.


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