Health Library News

  Need some advice and support to help you to live and work in a sustainable manner? Do you need to develop policies and practices to ensure services continue in a changing world? Or do you just want to live creating as little damage to the planet as possible? Take a look at the sustainability collection available to NHS staff members. We have a range of books to help support you. This collection is from the NHS Kortext collection of online books. Access the collection Kortext Collection The NHS has subscribed to a range of useful ebooks from the Kortext collection. These include management topics and self-help support as well as healthcare topics. To log in to the Kortext collection and start searching for ebooks follow the instructions on our help page . NHS Knowledge & Library Hub The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub allows you to search a range of different NHS-based resources from one page. To search for ebooks on the Hub, see the step-by-step instructions o...

 The proposed changes to the Oxford Academic platform previously reported have been delayed until the 19th July.

 I have had notification of a change to the openathens password policy ie the rules determining what password is acceptable. Rules: New minimum password length of 10 characters for users and administrators. The password must meet a minimum complexity score assessed by an industry-standard password strength checker. When does this happen? Begin July (date unspecified) - rules applied to all new accounts created. If existing accounts are amended, then users will be prompted for password change. 1st September - admin account holders will start to see prompts to change password if it does not comply with the new rules. You can defer but account will be expired if not done within the month. 1st October - user account holders will start to see prompts to change password if it does not comply with the new rules. They can defer but account will be expired within the month. Begin November - accounts where password is not compatible with new rules will be ex...

 The Internet is a great place to start looking for information and there are some great healthcare based resources available. In your work and studies you need to make sure that you are using good quality, relevant information.  So, how can you make sure that what you find fits that criteria? Make sure you have the right skills to separate the good stuff from the bad. Here's how: From the Health Library Start with a quick checklist - watch this introduction to the CRAAP checklist Complete our presentation Evaluating Information on the Internet  for more information about the checklist. Here are some more resources you might like to look at: How can you spot Fake News? How to spot fake news [poster] . International Federation of Library Associations How to spot fake news [video] . FactCheck.org   What is media literacy and why does it matter? FutureLearn   Check a fact checker - they do the work for you Full Fact Health   Full Fact is a team of indepen...

 Members of our library team will be taking over the Wellbeing Wagon at the Royal Stoke entrance for 7th to 8th July 2022. Come along, celebrate Health Information Week with us, and find out more about the library and the wonderful resources we have for you.

  NHS Knowledge and Library Services are working in partnership with T he Reading Agency to provide a new collectio n of 10 books and 30 online resources to NHS staff via their library . F or the first time, the collection will also be given to 120 prison libraries in England .     T he theme of the collection focuses on supporting better general health, including topics such as ag e ing well, women’s health and menopause, men’s health, life as a trans person and better mental wellbeing.      Funded by Health Education England, the collection has been chosen with the various communities involved for individuals to use themselves or to help them understand someone else’s health issues.     A copy of each of the 10 books will be sent to over 300 NHS and prison libraries across England . The d igital resources can be found on the NHS Knowledge and Library Services website .    Check our Reading Well collection for books to...

  You can help your patients understand their condition better and improve their own outcomes by providing, or pointing them to, good quality patient information. Whether you want to create your own bespoke patient information or find something ready-made, take a look at the options below. Main resources to help you to find patient information: BMJ Best Practice   BMJ Best Practice is a clinical decision support tool, offering evidence-based information on a wide range of conditions and diseases. Select the Patient Leaflets option from the top menu bar. You can then either browse the A-Z list or search for the condition. Once presented with the information you can either print it out or download it as a PDF file. BMJ Best Practice is available to all NHS staff. Log in with your NHS OpenAthens username. Clinical Key (UHNM staff only)   Clinical Key is a clinical search engine, covering a wide range of full-text sources. It offers you quick and easy acces...

 Take our quiz and find out if you can spot fake news. Do you take the news you read at face value? Have you been caught out by fake stories in social media? Let's see if you can spot fake news. View our presentation and enter our quiz for a chance to win a prize! Find out all about it on our website . You can trust me, I'm a librarian.

 It's Health Information Week this week! "Health Information Week is a national, multi-sector campaign promoting high-quality information for patients and the public. High quality health information can have a huge impact on people’s ability to stay healthy and manage illnesses effectively, giving them a better quality of life." As healthcare professionals you want to make sure your patients have the best, most up-to-date and accessible healthcare information. We'll be posting more information for you during the week, so check back to our blog or follow us on Twitter .