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Heart Month - February 2026

 Heart Month takes place each February in order to raise awareness of the risks of cardiovascular disease and to encourage people to take action to reduce their risk of developing heart and circulatory diseases.

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:   

  • Oxford Handbook of Cardiology; 2025; 3rd edition – only available as a Keele or NHS e-book; available in print from the Health Library at County; 2nd edition available in print at Health Library Royal Stoke
  • The ECG made practical; Hampton, John R.; Hampton, Joanna; Adlam, David; 2025; (Elsevier); 8th edition – also available as a Keele e-book
  • Paediatric cardiology; Day, Thomas; Bell, Aaron; Quyam, Sadia; et al; 2024 (Oxford University Press) – also available as a Keele or NHS e-book

JOURNALS:   

  • JRSM cardiovascular disease; Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain); London Cardiovascular Society; (Sage Publications) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2012 onwards
  • European heart journal open; European Society of Cardiology, issuing body; (Oxford University Press) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2021 onwards

N.B. NHS members can obtain temporary Keele IT logins to view Keele e-journals from the Keele IT suite in the Health Library at Royal Stoke. NHS ejournals will require login with an NHS Open Athens account.

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/ 

OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL ARTICLES:  

 

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:

 

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:   

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians.For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/. 

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