Health Library News

If you are embarking on an elective in the coming weeks, to ensure you do not incur any fines it is advisable to return your books to the library before starting your placement. Students are welcome to continue to borrow items, but please be aware that nor normal requirements to renew items, normal loan periods, and the possibility that items will be recalled or fines incurred for late return/renewal, will still apply.

Want to access resources on the go? Check out our Mobile Essentials for NHS web page to access our most useful evidence-based resources via your mobile devices.

The new edition of the extreeemly popular book Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine is now available at the Health Library.

If you have encountered an unusual clinical case, complication or diagnosis then you can share your experience by publishing a BMJ Case Report. BMJ Case Reports publishes  peer-reviewed, clinically important cases, in common and rare conditions. The Health Library subscription includes the opportunity not only for you to access full-text of published content but also for you to submit your own cases. You can find more information on our BMJ Case Reports support page . This subscription is only available to UHNM staff - you will need an NHS Athens username to access BMJ Case Reports.

The Health Library will be closed on the 29th August, Bank Holiday Monday. Don't forget that you can access online resources 24/7.

If you are planning to visit the Health Library please check our opening hours before you come. We are open 7 days a week (excluding some public holidays). You will find our main doors in the atrium of the Clinical Education Centre , at the Royal Stoke hospital site. During the weekend and after 5:30pm on a week-day evening please use the side-entrance. You can automatically access this entrance using your library or Keele card via the access control system, otherwise use the telecomm system to ask to be let in.

You'll find that the Health Library can help our many NHS staff members in lots of different ways. Check out our web page Information for NHS Staff for a list of all the different options available to you.

NHS staff can access the BNF (and BNFc) online via: NICE Evidence Search BNF page  (no login required) Medicines Complete - see the Healthcare Resources page for the link, page down to the Medicines Complete link and login with your NHS Athens username BNF App - this is only available to NHS Athens users; see our help page for more information and check out the BNF error and fix BNF App Image

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Due to unforeseen circumstances no inter-library loans (ILL) will be processed between 15th and 22nd August 2016. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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If you need a moment to take a break – come along to the Health Library and help us to complete our mindfulness wall. Photo of our mindfulness wall at the health library

Explore the Health Library facilities and services by trying our online etutorial Using the Health Library .

If you work for our NHS partners in North Staffordshire , then you can join the Health Library. Complete our application form – you can print out the online version or pick one up from the counter; bring it along with your NHS ID badge to the counter and we can set you up straight away. You can find out more about how we can support you by taking our online tutorial Supporting NHS Staff .

Here is a quick overview of what we can do for you at the Health Library.

Keele users can now use the new printing system in the IT suite: You will need to have a new Keele card, issued after 1st August. You will need to have added sufficient credit to your card. Please ask at your school or the CEC reception about new Keele cards.  You can add credit to your Keele card online .  Please see Keele IT if you have any problems. Photo of Keele Print Station Note: there is still no NHS printing available via the Keele network. Please ask at the counter.

The Health Library is here to support NHS organisations in North Staffordshire . Try our short etutorial Supporting NHS Staff to learn about the many facilities, services and resources that we have to support your work, CPD and revalidation.

Printing facilities are not currently available via the Keele network in the IT suite at the Health Library. This is occurring while the new Keele cards and printing software are being aligned. Add your printable items to a memory stick, bring to the counter, a library staff member will print your items, you can pay in cash or by credit/debit card.