Never Stop Learning From Your Patients

Do you listen to your patients? Do you get the complete view? Can you learn something new from their experiences? This Libraries Week try something different.

We’ve developed our Patient Voices collection to give you a different perspective.

How have patients coped with covid? What is the impact of disability on a family? How do people react to a cancer diagnosis? Read patient stories to learn more.

Access the Patient Voices collection

You can browse through the collection online via the Library Search catalogue. See something you like? Just request it and you can pick it up later.

Or just pop along to the Health Library and browse the shelves – this collection is to the right as you enter through the glass doors.

What books are available? Here is a selection (from the images above):

Type 1 Diabetes: the good, the bad and the sportsman (Ian J Cuthbert)
One Tiny Fault (Abigail Halstead)
Drifting into Darkness (Paul Gilmour)
My story – the good, the bad and the diabetes (Laura Ames)
Covid Tale: a patient and a doctor (Rabin Chakraborty)
The Power of Hope (Kate Garraway)
A Matter of Life and Death (Kelly Critcher)
Birth Stories during the Covid-19 Pandemic (Claire Roberts)
Ward Nine: coronavirus (Alys Morgan)
Many Different Kinds of Love (Michael Rosen)
No guiding star (John Mills)
Life in a Hospice (Ann Richardson)
Afraid of the dark (Jonny McCambridge)
Dear Cancer, love Victoria (Victoria Derbyshire)
What I wish people knew about dementia (Wendy Mitchell)
Adrift – fieldnotes from almost motherhood (Miranda Ward)
The C List: how I survived bowel cancer (Rachel Bown)
Handle with Care (Rochelle Bugg)

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