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 Improve communication with your patients to improve their health outcomes. Book your place on our Health Literacy Awareness course to learn more. This session, accredited by the Royal Society for Public Health UK (RSPH), aims to: introduce you to the concept of health literacy; consider the impact low health literacy can have on your work, your patients, and the NHS; and explore practical methods that can be used to help improve health literacy and the patient experience. It is a 1 hour interactive session delivered online.  Dates available: Monday 27th April 10:00am Tuesday 19th May 12:00pm Monday 29th June 10:00am To book: email Jonathan Hutchins at jonathan.hutchins2@uhnm.nhs.uk

  This event takes place every April with the aim of raising awareness and acceptance of autism and changing attitudes towards autistic people.  It creates opportunities to share information and ideas on how to support autistic colleagues, students or family members. RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES     The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.  This document covers the following resources – books , journals , journal articles and patient information .   BOOKS       Autism in nursing and healthcare ; Barber, Christopher; 2025; (John Wiley & Sons) An essential guide to caring for people with a learning disability and autistic people: enabling a cross-field approach ; Jones, Helen; Page, Andrea; Salmon, Samantha; 2025; (...

 Your NHS OpenAthens username gives you access to to excellent healthcare-based resources. Are you using them efficiently and effectively to get the evidence you need? Make the most of NHS resources; develop your skills by making the most of the training opportunities available at the Health Library. Read our latest NHS OpenAthens bulletin below or open the bulletin in a new browser tab . NHSOpenAthens bulletin April 2026 by Cheryl Kent

Webinar: BMJ Best Practice and state-of-the-art care for Sepsis in Adults Wednesday 29th April 2026, 2-3pm Improve sepsis outcomes for adult patients by joining our expert speakers, Dr Kieran Walsh (BMJ Clinical Director) and Professor Matt Morgan (Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Cardiff), for a focused webinar.  This session will guide you through practical strategies for leveraging BMJ Best Practice to provide outstanding care and address common clinical challenges in sepsis management. Key Topics : Managing comorbidities, overcoming implementation challenges, and avoiding clinical pitfalls. Who : Ideal for all NHS Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists and Students. Takeaway : Practical strategies for evidence-based care at the bedside. Please register via Microsoft Teams

 There will be reduced opening hours at the Health Library over Easter, as below: Friday 3rd April - closed Saturday 4th April 10 am - 4 pm Sunday 5th April - closed Monday 6th April - closed Online resources will be available via the Health Library website .

 Got a reference for an article? Need to find the full-text? Not sure if we have an NHS subscription to the content you need? Do you want to: Get full-text easily Feel confident and calm Impress colleagues Save time Or are you happy to: Search lots of resources Get frustrated Ask colleagues and friends Waste time You can check for your access to full-text articles and journals by using simple tools to search NHS resources. This will give you links straight to the full-text, no matter which platform holds our content. Complete our tutorial Find full-text articles and journals in the NHS to learn how to easily get to the full-text content you need. screen-shot of the etutorial showing avatars Emma and Dan You will learn: How important NHS OpenAthens is The one place to access these easy-to-use tools How to search for the DOI How to use NHS Knowledge & Library Hub How to use the Browzine journals list Why LibKey Nomad is so important How you can make searching on google scholar e...

  NHS staff can easily access 1000s of articles for free – simply register for your NHS OpenAthens username; use it to log in to 100s of websites, journals and databases to access full-text articles for free. You need good quality healthcare information for research, professional development and to support clinical decisions in patient care. The NHS and the Health Library subscribe to a range of excellent resources to support you. Access these resources easily with just 1 username / password – your NHS OpenAthens username. Why is the NHS OpenAthens account so important? Complete this short quiz – NHS OpenAthens, what’s fact or fake? – to learn what you can use an NHS OpenAthens account for. Register for your NHS OpenAthens account Register for your NHS OpenAthens account by completing the online form . For more help completing the form see our blog post Register for your NHS OpenAthens Username – step-by-step instructions . Access key resources You can find links...

 The Renal Drug Database is now available to all UHNM staff! What is the Renal Drug Database? The Renal Drug Database is an online drug reference tool providing additional drug detail relevant to renal patients, on renal dialysis or with kidney transplants. Each of the over 900 monographs provides guidance on Clinical Use, Dose in Normal Renal Function, Dose in Renal Impairment, Important Drug Interactions, Metabolism and Administration, with information validated under the governance of the UK Renal Pharmacy Group. How do you access the Renal Drug Database? You will need an individual username and password to access this resource. Note it is not an NHS OpenAthens authenticated resource. Request your username / password either by completing our online form or contacting librarian Cheryl at the Health Library c.kent@keele.ac.uk. Link directly to the Renal Drug Database or via the link on our NHS Resources page . Key Features RDD has a simple search interface to enter the drug you ...

  NHS staff - Your help is required to build understanding of needs for access to evidence in the NHS. The national team for Knowledge and Library Services are researching how NHS staff currently access and use evidence. We have completed interviews with people from all parts of the team and in all settings across the NHS in England. The next phase of the research will seek to validate the needs that have been identified as a result. We want to understand the picture for clinical and non-clinical staff, students and apprentices, those in regular contact with their Knowledge and Library Service and those who are not. You can read about previous user research that informed the creation of the Knowledge and Library Hub and be assured that your input can make the difference. If you can help, please complete this brief survey The survey will close 12 April 2026

  Neurodiversity Celebration Week is a global initiative founded to challenge misconceptions about neurological differences, including autism, ADHD, dyslexia and other conditions.  The aim is to highlight the many skills and talents of neurodivergent individuals and promote equality. RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES     The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.  This document covers the following resources – books , journals , journal articles and patient information .   BOOKS       Voices of neurodiversity: an inclusive encyclopaedia ; Papadopoulos, Chris; 2025; (Routledge) Neurodiversity ; Marble, John; Chabria, Khushboo; et al; 2024; (John Wiley & Sons Inc) – also available as both an NHS and Keele e-book Unmasking ...