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Our training section of the website has been reorganised. You can now see what training courses are most relevant to you, whether you work at the UHNS or for the NHS within the community or are a Keele student or member of staff. You can also find out what special support is available to you.

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BMJ Best Practice Clinical Champion programme for NHS staff

Are you an NHS healthcare professional interested in how digital health tools can support patient care and decision-making at the bedside? Are you looking to strengthen your portfolio and demonstrate your leadership skills and capabilities? Applications are now open for the next cohort of the BMJ Best Practice Clinical Champion programme. Open to any clinical professionals across the NHS, this is a great opportunity to get involved in a strong community promoting the use of digital health tools to improve patient care. Clinical Champions receive help from BMJ, including support for quality improvement projects. You must be a doctor, nurse, midwife, GP, pharmacist, paramedic, medical student (on clinical rotation), or AHP and in good standing with your medical profession. This programme is exclusively for NHS staff in England. BMJ Best Practice is an evidence-based, clinical decision support tool that has been selected by NHS England and NICE. It is freely available to all he...

Final reminder for NHS staff using Ebscohost databases

Ebsco is changing the interface for its databases, such as Cinahl and Medline. These databases are used for running literature searches. The platform for ebsco databases is also called ebscohost. The change is expected to take place on the 14th July. Have you saved searches or search alerts? You will need to act to avoid losing things you have saved. Why is EBSCOhost changing? There has been little change to EBSCO databases over a number of years. EBSCO say the new version will offer an enhanced experience and allow the addition of new features. What isn’t changing? Your access to EBSCO databases will continue to be via the Health library website and your existing NHS OpenAthens login. The account you use to save things (My EBSCO) will be retained although some content will be lost if you do not act. What do I need to do? Will I lose my saved searches? If you do not use EBSCOhost or ebsco databases then no action is required. If you do use EBSCOhost or ebsco databases then there ...

Create your own patient information - follow these easy steps

Make sure your patients have the right information to support their care and help them to make good health decisions. Create your own patient information easily by following these steps - complete our updated online tutorial 10 steps to creating patient information . You'll learn about: Defining what you want to say Identifying who you want to say it to Finding the right format Where to check whether it already exists What type of language you should use How to create readable text How to use images Arranging the layout Why you should add help options Keeping your references Your course avatar provides helpful hints and tips: More tutorials For more online tutorials go to the Health Library Information Skills etutorials web page .

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