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Don’t miss out – stay up-to-date with the latest evidence

As healthcare professionals you’ll need to stay abreast of changes and research in your chosen specialty. The Health Library can help you to efficiently stay up-to-date with the healthcare literature. Use these resources and tools to get the latest published literature, to help you to develop your knowledge and enhance patient care.

KnowledgeShare

Request Knowledge Evidence Updates to get personalised emails containing the latest evidence on your specialty topic. Content includes articles, reports and guidelines. Topics covered include diseases and conditions as well as professional topics such as management, patient safety, leadership and much more.

Watch this short video for an overview.

Complete the KnowledgeShare request form now to start to receive your updates.

Journal eTocs

Sign up for eToCs to get the latest published research from your favourite journals straight to your inbox. You’ll get the table of contents, including links to research articles, for the latest issue published. Check our blog posts for instructions on how to sign-up to our most popular titles.

Evidently Cochrane

Sign-up to the Evidently Cochrane blog to keep up-to-date with the latest Cochrane Systematic reviews in your area, or to keep abreast of the latest research. Evidently Cochrane makes Cochrane evidence more accessible. The blogs are written by Cochrane staff as well as guest bloggers. Items are posted on a regular basis with themed issues and special events added throughout the year. You can view content based on a number of categories and can sign-up to receive posts and digests via email in your inbox. There are also 3 special categories: Evidence for Everyday Allied Health, Evidence for Everyday Nursing and Evidence for Everyday Midwifery.

Staying up-to-date with the health library

It’s a good idea to stay aware of changes and updates occurring at the Health Library. We let you know about new resources or changes to services. Keep an eye on our Health Library news blog or sign-up to receive the Health Library newsletter.

Access resources

The resources we recommend may be freely available online, require a personal login or need an NHS OpenAthens username for full-text access. You will find links to all our resources on our NHS resources web page.

Learn more…

Find out about more resources available to NHS staff by completing our etutorial Finding NHS Resources.

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