Health Library News

 The Internet is a great place to start looking for information and there are some great healthcare based resources available. In your work and studies you need to make sure that you are using good quality, relevant information.  So, how can you make sure that what you find fits that criteria? Make sure you have the right skills to separate the good stuff from the bad. Here's how: From the Health Library Start with a quick checklist - watch this introduction to the CRAAP checklist Complete our presentation Evaluating Information on the Internet  for more information about the checklist. Here are some more resources you might like to look at: How can you spot Fake News? How to spot fake news [poster] . International Federation of Library Associations How to spot fake news [video] . FactCheck.org   What is media literacy and why does it matter? FutureLearn   Check a fact checker - they do the work for you Full Fact Health   Full Fact is a team of indepen...

 Members of our library team will be taking over the Wellbeing Wagon at the Royal Stoke entrance for 7th to 8th July 2022. Come along, celebrate Health Information Week with us, and find out more about the library and the wonderful resources we have for you.

  NHS Knowledge and Library Services are working in partnership with T he Reading Agency to provide a new collectio n of 10 books and 30 online resources to NHS staff via their library . F or the first time, the collection will also be given to 120 prison libraries in England .     T he theme of the collection focuses on supporting better general health, including topics such as ag e ing well, women’s health and menopause, men’s health, life as a trans person and better mental wellbeing.      Funded by Health Education England, the collection has been chosen with the various communities involved for individuals to use themselves or to help them understand someone else’s health issues.     A copy of each of the 10 books will be sent to over 300 NHS and prison libraries across England . The d igital resources can be found on the NHS Knowledge and Library Services website .    Check our Reading Well collection for books to...

 Take our quiz and find out if you can spot fake news. Do you take the news you read at face value? Have you been caught out by fake stories in social media? Let's see if you can spot fake news. View our presentation and enter our quiz for a chance to win a prize! Find out all about it on our website . You can trust me, I'm a librarian.

 It's Health Information Week this week! "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." As healthcare professionals you want to make sure your patients have the best, most up-to-date and accessible healthcare information. We'll be posting more information for you during the week, so check back to our blog or follow us on Twitter .