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Get specialist support from the Health Library

 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:

top 3 specialist support services
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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 for North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare can contact the Outreach Librarians for help accessing resources.

Page down a little and you’ll find even more help. We’ve included pages to help certain user groups get to the help they need quickly:

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screen-shot of more specialist services

More support for NHS Staff

Find out how we can help NHS Researchers, Nursing Validation, and Nursing and Healthcare Assistants; as well as provide Copies from Stock for hospital staff.

More Support for Keele Users

You’ll find links here for more help to Academic Staff and Keele Researchers.

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, services and resources.

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