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 You can use the Health Library Literature Search Service to help you to get the best healthcare evidence quickly. Whether you need information for an audit, a presentation, to support your research, to help with your teaching or to give you the latest research available, you can ask us to help. What is the Health Library Literature Service? If you need evidence quickly we can run literature searches on your behalf. Our expert librarians will discuss your requirements with you and search the most relevant, good quality resources to find you the best evidence. You'll get a report including all the items - such as articles, reviews, guidelines and reports - which match your search criteria. This: Saves you time Gives you good quality resources Helps you get easy access Who can make a request? This service is available to NHS staff and Keele academics to support service delivery, patient care, research and professional development. Note that this service is not available to support a...

 Make sure you maximise your potential and become the best searcher you can be. This will help you to find the right information quickly and confidently to support your studies, dissertation, professional development, research and ultimately lead to better patient care. Our etutorials will set you on the right path. Go to our Information Skills etutorial page , explore the different sections and complete the etutorials to develop your skills and learn more about our resources: What are digital and information skills? Have you got them? Your digital skills – how can the Health Library help? Information skills to support literature searching Analyse your question to get your literature search off to a good start Develop your search skills with our online tutorials Learn to use the right resource Is the information you find good quality? Make sure you use information ethically Use your digital skills to share the information you find Stay up-to-date with updates in your field More tr...

  The Health Library can help you to find information effectively and efficiently by supporting your information skills development. Get the right information quickly to complete your assignments, start your research or to support your professional development. Check our Information Skills for Healthcare blog for the latest news on resources and training opportunities. We’ve now updated our blog tab pages to help you get to the essential support quickly. Literature Searching - take a look at our etutorials and blog posts to learn about the steps you need to complete to be a successful literature searcher. Databases and more… - find a list of etutorials, help pages and blog posts to help you to get to grip with some of our most popular and key resources. Access Resources - use our good quality, healthcare specific resources to find the evidence you need to support your studies, research and work, to make confident decisions and deliver evidence-based practice. More help ...

  Urology Awareness Month takes place every year in September and is run by The Urology Foundation with the aim of raising awareness of urological diseases.  This year’s theme is “Men’s Urology Health: Myths and Legends” and is aimed at highlighting prostate and testicular cancers as well as bladder issues, erectile dysfunction and kidney stones and encouraging men to speak out about these issues.   RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES     The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.  This document covers the following resources – books , journals , journal articles and patient information .   BOOKS       Minimally invasive urology: an essential clinical guide to endourology, laparoscopy, LESS and robotics ; Best, S...