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  HIV/AIDS Awareness Month takes place each December. According to the charity National AIDS Trust there are more than 105,000 people already living in the UK with HIV. This campaign helps to raise awareness of the virus and fights to reduce the stigma surrounding it.   RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES     The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer 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 Paradoxes of PrEP for HIV Prevention ; Skovdal, Morten; 2025 (Policy Press) – [available as an Open Access e-book] Global LGBTQ Health: Research, Policy, Practice, and Pathways ; Hwahng, Sel J; Kaufman, Michelle R; Hwahng, Sel J; Kaufman, Michelle R; 2024 – [available as an Open...

 The Health Library will have reduced opening hours over the Christmas holidays. Wednesday 24th December - Open 9am-4pm Thursday 25th- Sunday 28th December -  Closed Monday 29th- Wednesday 31st December - Open 9am-4pm Thursday 1st January -  Closed Friday 2nd January - Open 9am-4pm Normal opening times resume Saturday 3rd January. Please check our website for current opening hours . Online resources are available via the Health Library website .

  November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month and this November the charity Pancreatic Cancer Action has launched their #DeadlyKiller campaign.  According to the charity, only 10-20% of patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer are diagnosed in time to receive potentially life-saving treatment.  As such, they aim to raise awareness of the symptoms to assist with early diagnosis.   RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES     The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer 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 Challenges in pancreatic cancer ; Vladimirov, Borislav; Kovacheva-Slavova, Mila; 2021 (InTech Open) – [ available as an Open Access e-book ] Pancreatic ...

Thinking of writing your own research paper but unsure where to begin? This one-hour course will help you develop a robust search strategy which can be transferred into other databases for maximum paper retrieval. Run by UHNM and Keele Librarians, this course will help you build the ‘Literature review’ section of your paper using Ovid Medline. By the end of this workshop, you should be able to: Develop and run your own research question Screen the title and abstract of relevant papers Know how to obtain the full text Save your search and journal articles Download your search results in a file (ready for uploading in screening or reference software) Set up an alert for new research recently added. Be able to amend your search for maximum transferability into other databases Certificates are provided upon completion.  Wednesday 12th November, 12:30 - 13.30 - To book a session, click here Thursday 4th December, 12:30 - 13.30 To book a session, click here If you have any question, ple...

  Want to connect with someone new from across Shropshire and Staffordshire? Take part in our Multi-Trust Random Connections event this November!   This year, we are hosting a Multi-Trust Random Connections event that you can join today! Sign up to:  Meet someone new from NHS Trusts in Shropshire and Staffordshire  Find out about other roles and departments  Create networks  Discover opportunities for collaboration  Reduce isolation  Enjoy a break from your usual routine  You will get randomly matched with a colleague from across Shropshire and Staffordshire for a short chat about work or personal topics.  Register for the event here !  This event is organised on behalf of NHS staff in Staffordshire and Shropshire by Library and Knowledge Services, Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. Please direct any queries to library@mpft.nhs.uk  

A message from nhse regarding the impact of the US gov shutdown on pubmed and medline: -------------- If you have visited a US government funded website in the past few days, you may have noticed a warning like this: "Because of a lapse in government funding, the information on this website may not be up to date, transactions submitted via the website may not be processed, and the agency may not be able to respond to inquiries until appropriations are enacted. The NIH Clinical Center (the research hospital of NIH) is open. For more details about its operating status, please visit cc.nih.gov . Updates regarding government operating status and resumption of normal operations can be found at opm.gov ." What does this mean for NHS users? If you subscribe to auto-alerts from PubMed or Medline (from either of our commercial suppliers, Ovid or EBSCO), you may notice that you don’t receive any new records for a couple of weeks. If the shut-down lasts for longer than anticipated, cons...

  The Health Libraries have a wide range of titles for topics around wellbeing, burnout and self-care. This flyer highlights a selection of the titles available - print books and e-books. https://uhnm-nhs.pagetiger.com/mentalhealth1 Many more resources can be found via: the library catalogue:  Wellbeing collection  Wellbeing collection - Keele University or searching the catalogue generally at:  Library Search   or the  NHS Knowledge and Libraries Hub  – login with your OpenAthens account before searching, for the best results.