Information Skills for Health

 You can access a wealth of healthcare-based resources as well as a range of specialist services from the Health Library website.  These are specially developed to support your studies, research, work and professional development. Use Quick Links to get to the services you need straight away We’ve created handy lists of the key services our main user groups will need. So, if you need to get straight to a particular service check the Quick Links list on the home page for Keele Students, NHS Staff and Keele Academics. Quick Links lists on the Health Library home page Access the Health Library website The Health Library for North Staffordshire, based at the CEC (Royal Stoke University Hospital) supports Keele University healthcare-based staff and students as well as NHS staff working for our partner organisations . The Health Library website is freely available online. You can find information about our facilities and services as well as links to access our specialist...

 The Health Library website provides you with access to a wealth of healthcare-based resources as well as a range of specialist services to support your studies, work and professional development. Here’s a reminder that you can contact the Health Library: By phone By post Online Just drop-in You can also contact a specific member of staff.  All the details are on the Contact Us page on the Health Library website . Web page showing contact details Access the Health Library website The Health Library for North Staffordshire, based at the CEC (Royal Stoke University Hospital) supports Keele University healthcare-based staff and students as well as NHS staff working for our partner organisations . The Health Library website is freely available online. You can find information about our facilities and services as well as links to access our specialist healthcare resources. Need more help? Please contact the Health Library for any help accessing Health Librar...

 You can access a wealth of healthcare-based resources as well as a range of specialist services from the Health Library website.  These are specially developed to support your studies, research, work and professional development. Use our online forms to make a request. You can easily make a request to the Health Library online. Just go to our Find a Form page to link to any of our online forms. Submit your request and we’ll get back to you. Access the Health Library website The Health Library for North Staffordshire, based at the CEC (Royal Stoke University Hospital) supports Keele University healthcare-based staff and students as well as NHS staff working for our partner organisations . The Health Library website is freely available online. You can find information about our facilities and services as well as links to access our specialist healthcare resources. Need more help? Please contact the Health Library for any help accessing Health Library facilities...

 You can access a wealth of healthcare-based resources as well as a range of specialist services from the Health Library website.  These are specially developed to support your studies, research, work and professional development. Specialist support from our librarians will get you straight to the information you need. Go to the Specialist Support section of our website. Here your find: Specialist support web page screen-shot Inter-Library Loan Service – this service will help you to get to information sources which are not covered by our subscriptions. We will try to borrow or copy the relevant items from another library on your behalf. Literature Search Service – request a literature search and one of our experienced librarians will do the search for you. You’ll receive a report including a list of the articles and research we have found for your topic. Complete the online form to make a request. NHS Outreach Service – users working for the Staffordshire ICB or...

 The Health Library website provides you with access to a wealth of healthcare-based resources as well as a range of specialist services to support your studies, work and professional development. Check the opening hours before you visit. Before you visit make sure that you check the opening hours. Go to our Opening Hours web page . You’ll find details of any closure due to holidays. You can check our blog from here for any urgent notices about opening hours. Opening hours options on the web page Access the Health Library website The Health Library for North Staffordshire, based at the CEC (Royal Stoke University Hospital) supports Keele University healthcare-based staff and students as well as NHS staff working for our partner organisations . The Health Library website is freely available online. You can find information about our facilities and services as well as links to access our specialist healthcare resources. Need more help? Please contact the Health Library...

 The Health Library website provides you with access to a wealth of healthcare-based resources as well as a range of specialist services to support your studies, work and professional development. Check our website to make the most of your visit If you are planning a trip to the Health Library check out the Using the Health Library section of our website. You’ll find information about: How to Join – NHS staff need to complete a membership form to join, download your membership form from here. How to borrow books – learn about our book collections. What you can do with your library card – it’s for more than just taking books out. Facilities you can use – check the IT and study facilities. Visiting the Health Library – any health and safety restrictions will be listed here. How to get here – find us on Google. Go to the Using the Library section via the top menu bar from the home page. You can then link to each sub-section from the top menu bar. Using the He...

 What is happening on Clinical Key this month? Clinical Key is available to UHNM staff via NHS OpenAthens login. June 5 th  to 12 th    – Diabetes Week For any person with diabetes, it’s important to minimize the risk of hypoglycemia s, almost always induced by specific glucose-lowering therapies that augment insulin supply in a glucose-independent fashion. Check out our clinical overview about Hypoglycemia in Patients with Diabetes June 12 th  to 16 th   – Healthy Eating Week Let’s cook, it’s #HealthyEatingWeek! A healthy eating plan may help you to maintain a healthy weight, reduce the risk of chronic diseases, and stay active throughout your life. Discover our tips and advices about Healthy Eating  from our patient education collection.    June 14 th  – Blood Donor Day The donor vigilance process is one of the most important steps in the recruitment and retention of blood donors. Discover this article about blood donor disch...

The Health Library website provides you with access to a wealth of healthcare-based resources as well as a range of specialist services to support your studies, work and professional development. Develop your information skills to find the information you need effectively. We’ve got plenty of opportunities to help you to develop your information skills and learn how to use our resources effectively to find the information you need. Go to the Training section of our website for all the different options. You can visit the various options by clicking on the menu options presented at the top of page. Training page showing the top menu items Go to the most popular options by paging down to see the Quick Links for the key sections: Information Skills eTutorials, Online Guides and Support and Courses and Workshops. Quick links options on the training page Page down again to see the images and links for the subsections: Sub-sections presented as images Information skills etutor...

  You can access a wealth of healthcare-based resources as well as a range of specialist services from the Health Library website.  These are specially developed to support your studies, research, work and professional development. Make sure you get the best evidence you need from good quality resources. Go to the Find section to get lists of our various resources. These include resources that are subscribed either by Keele University or our NHS partners, as well as key, good quality resources that are freely available. They include our book collections, both in print and online, journals collections to provide full-text access to articles, databases for literature searching and many more specialist tools and websites. We’ve organized them by user group and type of information to make it easier for you to find what you need. Go straight to a sub-section by clicking on the menu options on the top, blue menu bar. Find section top menu options Go to our most popular op...

  Recent news from the TRIP database : Exciting Update : Introducing Trip's Risk of Bias Score for RCTs! We are thrilled to announce the release of our new risk of bias score, now available for all RCTs on Trip. Thanks to our collaboration with the incredible RobotReviewer team, this groundbreaking feature provides even more valuable insights into the quality of RCTs. To learn more,  click here . This release comes right after our successful launch of the  guideline score last month . And guess what? We are already gearing up to develop a comprehensive scoring system for systematic reviews! Exciting Additions : We have some fantastic updates to share: Enhanced Guideline Offering : We are proud to introduce a new 'European' guideline category, expanding our comprehensive range of guidelines. Streamlined Content : Our commitment to quality means we've implemented a robust system to eliminate duplicate articles in Trip. Through this enhancement, we have successfully detect...

 Users signed up to OrthoEvidence can set up their updates so that they get the latest summarized, critically appraised, evidence straight to their inbox. You can select which updates you would like Log in to OrthoEvidence and hover over the account icon. Then select the Newsletter option from the options presented. You’ll be able to see the list of newsletters available to you. Toggle on the ones that you want to receive. You can select more than one. Click Save Changes when you’re finished. You will now receive these newsletters straight to your inbox. Please see our previous blog posts: What is OrthoEvidence and why is it useful? Personalising your OrthoEvidence account This resource is not available via OpenAthens login. We have a limited number of accounts available. Please contact the eresources librarian at c.kent@keele.ac.uk for instructions to obtain your login account. Please be aware that OrthoEvidence is available to members of Royal College of Surgeo...

 Get Clinical Key on the go by installing the Clinical Key mobile app. Follow these step-by-step instructions: Login to the desktop Clinical Key using your NHS OpenAthens username. Make sure you activate your account (this creates what Clinical Key calls a personal account). See our blog post for help on how to log in and activate your account . 1. Go to your app store. 2. Search for the Clinical Key app and install it. 3. Open the Clinical Key app. 4. Select the correct product - ClinicalKey 5. Select the Clinical Key edition - ClinicalKey. 6. Click Access via your Institution. Select the button "Access via your institution" 7. Enter the Institution name "University Hospitals of North Midlands". Find UHNM on the institution list by typing the name 8. Confirm your organisation Double-check your have found the correct institution and click the "Confirm" button 9. Log in with your NHS OpenAthens username / password. Now enter your UHNM openathens username a...

 OrthoEvidence allows orthopaedic and physiotherapy specialist staff to stay up-to-date with the latest evidence, in an easy to read format. You can get expert summaries of the best research. Get all the latest content in one place on your dashboard. Too much? Too general? Then just re-arrange your dashboard to get what you want. Your dashboard is presented after you log in to OrthoEvidence. You will see the latest published content at the top. You can then page down to see the other sections. For example Ace Reports, Favourites or Recently Read articles. See an example below. You can re-order the different sections or even remove a section so the ones you are most interested in are presented to you. Simply click on the arrows next to the section title to get the Customize Your Dashboard options. From the selection screen toggle the sections off or on. You can then drag the sections up or down to give the order you want to see. Click Save Changes when you are happy wi...