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 We’d like to know what you think of the Health Library service. Comments, compliments and complaints – please feel free to contact our friendly staff and let us know how we’re doing and how we can improve. Just pick up a comments form in the library, let us know using the online form or have a chat with a member of staff.

Quick and easy access to key healthcare resources.  Find links to all the key resources you'll need on one page - we've updated our NHS Resources page . Get your organisation-specific page Search the Knowledge and Library Hub straight from the page Get quick access to the essential databases for literature searching Go straight to help if you need it Check the A-Z list of resources Learn more about the NHS Resources page from our blog post Get the right NHS resource for the best evidence .

 Exams never seem to end. Whether you are a medical student or a medical professional and you’re revising for your exams, make sure you check out our Medical Exam Revision collection for help. If you're looking for MCQs, SBAs or EMQs, we have an alphabet soup of books for you! Browse the collection online or pop along to the library – the exam collection is located opposite the main glass doors. Think something is missing? Let us know – make a stock suggestion .

 Get good quality, healthcare specialist information and research quickly – search our databases. What are databases? Database contain bibliographic information around a wide range of, often subject specialist, journals. You can use a range of tools available via the database interface to search for articles on your topic. Tools include: free-text searching, thesaurus or subject term searching, options to combine keywords and searches, and filters such as date of publication and patient characteristics to focus your search. Most databases allow you to set up alerts so that you are notified when new material is added and you can save and share your search results. We subscribe to healthcare databases to help you to find good quality information in your specialist areas. Keele Databases Keele University has subscribed to some core healthcare databases such as: AMED (Allied & Complementary Medicine Database) - Database of references to journal articles in alternative/com

Do you want to make confident clinical decisions? Moving into a new clinical area and need a quick refresher of the latest evidence and recommended guidelines? We have the tools to help you. BMJ Best Practice This is an essential evidence-based, clinical decision support tool to help you make confident decisions. It is available to all NHS OpenAthens users. You can search for a wide range of conditions, and access overviews, theory, diagnosis, treatment and management as well as calculators, patient leaflets and videos. Clinical Key You can use this specialist clinical search engine to quickly find clinical overviews, calculators and guidelines to support your clinical decisions. Complete more in-depth searching for full-text articles, topic summaries, videos and ebooks. Clinical Key is available to UHNM staff via OpenAthens. Clinical Knowledge Summaries NHS staff working in primary care can browse the easy-to-read, evidence-based, best practice recommendations for condit

 The Health Education England funded NHS Knowledge and Library Hub , is a ‘one-stop’ national gateway which, for the first time nationally, connects NHS staff and learners seamlessly to a significant range of free, high-quality knowledge and evidence resources, services, and databases all in one place. Content of the easy-to-use platform includes: over 7,000 journals books and e-publications including Oxford handbooks one-click access to full-text option to request an article copy contact an NHS library clinical decision support tools such as BMJ Best Practice NICE pathways and guidelines databases like Medline, EMBASE and CINAHL Watch the video to get started Whether searching for published knowledge and evidence for patient care, management decision-making, education, research, or just professional curiosity, the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is set to become the starting point for every search; ensuring users can be confident that the care they deliver is based

 Of course we had to mention the books! We have a healthcare specialist book collection, covering a wide range of health topics and available for a diverse array of healthcare professions. Books are available in print as well as online. You can borrow books for a standard loan period of 2 weeks (for Keele users) or 4 weeks (for NHS users). Popular items are available on a 7 day loan. Some items are reference only. You don’t need to remember to renew your books – they are automatically renewed as long as no one else requests them. Please check your email regularly – we'll let you know if you need to return an item. You can search our book collection via Library Search . Log in to Library Search if you want to request an item – then we’ll let you know when it is available for you to pick up. NHS users have access to extra online collections – you can go to the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub to search the ebook collections .

  See the pandemic from the other side.  Read about the patient experience of covid-19. Check our Patient Voices collection for a different perspective of the patient journey. Birth stories during the covid-19 pandemic / Claire Roberts “ What was it really like for women giving birth during the Covid-19 Global Pandemic 2020 ? This collection of twenty-five Birth Stories has been written by the women who have given birth during the Covid-19 Global Pandemic. The stories are raw, personal, moving and very revealing experiences about what it has been like to give birth during these unprecedented times. The Global Covid-19 Pandemic 2020 has touched us all but for women giving birth during this time it has been particularly tough as social distancing and hospital visiting restrictions has had a significant impact on their birth experiences. During this pandemic Midwives and all Maternity Health Care Professionals have tried to make women feel as safe as possible, we have tried to strike

 You can find a wealth of information from the Health Library. But how do you get access? Access the Health Library - come along to the health Library to access our book collection and use the library facilities. You’ll need to swipe with your Library card to enter , borrow books and use the print/photocopy/scanning facilities . Access NHS online resources - you need an NHS OpenAthens username and password to log in to the plethora of online resources , especially selected for NHS users. It’s free to register, just complete the online form. Find out more from our OpenAthens web page . Access Keele online resources - Keele staff and students can access the Keele University subscribed resources using your Keele login details. Resources include healthcare-based ebooks, journals and databases. Learn more from the Campus Library page.

 What can the Health Library do for you? We always love a list at the Health Library. You can learn more about Health Library facilities, services and resources from our A-Z list. How many do you already know about? Check our blog over the next couple of months to learn something new about the Health Library.

 We have been notified by NICE that they will be closing their NICE Evidence Search search engine. Notice from NICE " NICE is focused on delivering the developments described in the  published five-year strategy . The board and senior management team are giving priority and focus to work that will drive this forward and have made decisions to provide resources to deliver this. They have taken account of the wide range of services that NICE currently provides and are making difficult decisions to prioritise our future work programmes. At the same time, use of the service has been declining over the years, and has dropped by 24% over the last 21 months." The NICE Evidence Search resource has been a very useful resource for NHS staff and healthcare students and we are sorry to see it go. Users can try the new NHS Knowledge and Library Hub for simple searches - you'll find a link on our NHS Resources page .

 The 100th issue of our Covid-19 Evidence Bulletin is now available on the Health Library website. Check out the latest published research on covid-19 / coronavirus on topics including: Infection control Diagnosis / prognosis Treatment Get the bulletin delivered straight to your inbox by contacting Mathew, our NHS Clinical Effectiveness Librarian; mathew.stone@uhnm.nhs.uk. Need to know about covid-19 and your specialist area? Ask us to complete a literature search for you. Find out more about our Literature Search Service on the Health Library website . Find more information about covid-19 / coronavirus from our subject links page . Here you'll find links to information including: Public Health Topic summaries Reviews & guidelines Literature searching Training Statistics If you're looking for something else, just get in touch .

Here in the Health  Library (CEC, Royal Stoke),  we  are collecting clothes for  homeless  people and refugees, in  support  of Manna  House  and ASHA charities.  Our collection point  is in  the Health Library in the Clinical Education Centre.    The Health Library is open every day (Monday- Thur sday 08.30 - 09.45.pm, Fridays 08.30-07.45  p.m. , weekends 10.00  a.m.  - 10.00  p.m. )   You can help by donating:   Jeans,  sweatshirts Men's trainers (especially size 10)   Gloves and scarves   Drop your donations at our collection point, opposite the library counter, next to the New Books display. The appeal will last until end of February 2022 .   Please help  those  in need this winter   Please contact Rachael  Lewis:   Telephone number 01782 679563 or email:  Rachael.Lewis@uhnm.nhs.uk  if you want to know more. Manna House is a drop-in for the homeless and vulnerable within Stoke-on-Trent and the surrounding area and is based at the Baptist Church in Hanley. 

 Healthcare Databases Advanced Search (HDAS) will close down on 31 March 2022.  This means that you will not be able to access or use HDAS. Any alerts you have saved will stop running and sending results to you. All the search strategies and search results you have saved will be deleted. You will need to conduct your literature searches against the bibliographic databases via their native platform. You can find more help on moving your saved content on HDAS to the native databases, and on using the native interfaces on our help page . For more help please arrange a training session with our training team .

 Unfortunately there has been a leak in the library over the New Year period. We have had to cordon off a small area and unplug some electrical equipment for safety. This means that there is a slight reduction in the number of NHS networked computers available. It is affecting one bank of computers in the rotunda. The computers in the photocopier room are unaffected. There is one bank of computers in the rotunda still available. Please ask at the counter if you are unsure where to access our NHS networked computers. The problem has been reported and we hope that it will be fixed soon.