Health Library News

We have updated our page about the Health Library on the UHNM intranet. If you work for UHNM and have access to the intranet you'll find our page in the Learning, Education and Widening Participation section . You'll only be able to view the page from the UHNM intranet. Here is a screen-shot of the page: Screen-shot of the Health Library page on the UHNM intranet You'll find plenty of help to get you to our resources and online services quickly.

We have updated our online form that allows you to request a journal article inter-library loan . We will be moving all our forms to a new platform. Hopefully this will make the forms clearer and easier to use. If you would like to make any comment about the new forms you can do so via our Contact Us form.

NHS IT KCom will be completing some work in the Library tomorrow, Tuesday 23rd July. There may be some disruption to our users. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Our Clinical Effectiveness Librarian works with the Bedside Clinical Guidelines Partnership to provide the evidence supporting the guidelines. The Bedside Clinical Guidelines provide assistance for the consistent, evidence-based management of patients in acute hospital settings. They are published by The Bedside Clinical Guidelines Partnership and are used within the University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM). There are 7 titles in total. All are available as ebooks via the UHNM Intranet: Emergency Medicine guidelines Medical guidelines Neonatal guidelines Nursing guidelines Obstetric guidelines Paediatric guidelines Surgical guidelines   We also hold print copies of the following: Neonatal guidelines (2017-19) Obstetric guidelines (2017-19) Paediatric guidelines (2016-18) A number of guideline sets are also available to Keele students on specific reading lists, via Keele’s KLE. You can find out more about this set of guideline...

From Keele IT : Due to essential IT maintenance taking place this Saturday (20 July), all IT systems are subject to potential disruption throughout the day.  Work is being carried out to upgrade operating systems and servers all day on Saturday, and unfortunately IT Services cannot guarantee that University systems hosted by these servers will be available.  This work could affect all systems used across the University, including (but not limited to) the finance system, Keele People, SCIMS, Blackboard, Gmail, and TopDesk.  Maintenance on Blackboard will begin on Friday, so disruption is likely to begin from 10pm on Friday. Maintenance on other systems will begin around 6am on Saturday. The work is being completed on a Saturday in order to cause minimal disruption to our staff and students.  IT Services does however apologise if you are affected by systems being unavailable due to this maintenance.  All systems should be back up and running from Sunday morning.

The library provides access to a range of bibliographic databases, clinical search engines, point of care tools, full-text ejournals and ebooks via the library website. Search our databases and tools to find the latest or best evidence to support your decisions for patient care or improving services. You’ll find a full list of resources on  our healthcare resources page . Get Access: Register for an NHS Athens username / password  so that you can access our databases and full-text resources. We manage Athens access locally and help you to maintain your username. UHNM Values:

We're here to support NHS staff and Keele University staff and students. Last quarter we helped you by: Completing 52 literature searches for you, so supporting evidence-based healthcare decisions. You can request a Literature Search online . Supplying 111 Inter-library Loans, allowing you to access full-text articles not available within our collections. Request an inter-library loan for an article by completing our online form . Helping 98 people register for an NHS OpenAthens account so that they can access articles, ejournals, databases and ebooks. Fill out the online form and get started using your openathens username to access online resources. Delivering 123 training sessions to help users to use our resources and develop their literature searching skills. Improve your information skills - book a training session online . Infographic displaying the quarterly statistics listed above For more help ask at the Library or  check out our website .

The Health Library and Library, Education and Resource Centre support the UHNM Values: Commitment to quality of care Working together for patients   We facilitate access to the literature and evidence UHNM staff use to inform their decisions for the care of patients and improvements to services, with our: Literature search service Literature searching training courses and e-tutorials Provision of access to literature databases, and point of care information tools Dynamed and Clinical Key . UHNM values:

Patient Voices Collection We have added some new titles to our Patient Voices collection. You can learn how patients cope with long term conditions, sudden trauma and mental health issues. Montage of Book Covers from the Patient Voices Collection Come along to browse through the collection in the Library rotunda or browse online via Library Search. Books in the Patient Voices collection are available to borrow on a standard loan; DVDs are available on a 7 day loan.

This week is Health Information Week. Come along to the Library to see our display board in the rotunda. You'll learn about lots of information resources as well as our Patient Voices collection. Photo of the Health Information Week display board

Health Information Week is an annual campaign to improve access to health information. Staff from local authorities, public libraries, NHS, voluntary sector, independent information and advice centres have all been working together to make their health resources more available to the public. In most areas your local libraries and information centres will have extra health information available, leaflets for you to take away or sessions to show you how to use the computer to find good quality health information. For more information about Health Information week, please visit the Knowledge for Healthcare Website: http://kfh.libraryservices.nhs.uk/patient-and-public-information/health-information-week/ RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES    For anyone interested in improving access to health information and the communication of information, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists belo...