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Health Information Week is a national, multi-sector campaign promoting high-quality information for patients and the public. High quality health information can have a huge impact on people’s ability to stay healthy and manage illnesses effectively, giving them a better quality of life. Sourcing reliable health information is important. The individual’s level of health literacy will also affect how they use or interpret the information they find. For more information about Health Information week, please https://healthinfoweek.wixsite.com/healthinfoweek RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES    For anyone interested in improving access to health information and the communication of information, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items,...

This week is Health Information Week (6th - 12th July). Health Health Information Week is an annual national, multi-sector campaign to promote high quality information for patients and the public. High quality information can have a huge impact on people's ability to stay healthy and manage illnesses effectively, giving them a better quality of life. Take a look at our leaflet: Searching for good quality health information on the internet which is available on the Trust intranet under patient information. To find Coronavirus information for patients and the public  from trusted sources, including information in Easy Read and other accessible formats, see the resources compiled by HEE’s national Library and Knowledge Services team: https://library.nhs.uk/coronavirus-resources/ There is also good myth-busting information on Covid-19 here: https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus/#online  and  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/reality_check  for anyone anxiou...