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Health Information Week - highlights

If you missed any of our Tweets or Facebook posts during Health Information week, here are the highlights:

Help your patients discover good quality health information; helping them stay healthy, manage illnesses effectively, and accomplish a better quality of life.
Everyone benefits from good quality health information.

Video and poster: Don't know what to believe? Think: Who? What? Where?

Don't know what to believe? Think .. Who? What? Where? poster.


Leaflet to support your patients to find the right information online.
We put together this leaflet. The leaflet is available in the patient information library on the UHNM intranet. 



Searching for good quality health information using the internet
 leaflet

Mood lifting books - ten books chosen by NHS staff for you to read to uplift your mood. 
The books are available at Health Library at County and can be requested for collection from either Health Library at Royal Stoke or Health Library at County.
Check out other online mood boosting resources at http://ow.ly/mFoo50Fq0Ft
  
Uplifting resources for the NHS - Reading Agency

We ran a competition to show the good quality information you give to your patients. Congratulations to the UHNM Hearing and Balance Clinic who won the prize. Enjoy! The patient information leaflets you created were fantastic. 😀 Thank you to our competition judges and those who entered. 👏

@UHNM_NHS #hiwcomp #HIW2021 @CECLibrary @CountyHealthLib @Healthinfoweek

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