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  NHS staff can easily access 1000s of articles for free – simply register for your NHS OpenAthens username; use it to log in to 100s of websites, journals and databases to access full-text articles for free. You need good quality healthcare information for research, professional development and to support clinical decisions in patient care. The NHS and the Health Library subscribe to a range of excellent resources to support you. Access these resources easily with just 1 username / password – your NHS OpenAthens username. Why is the NHS OpenAthens account so important? Complete this short quiz – NHS OpenAthens, what’s fact or fake? – to learn what you can use an NHS OpenAthens account for. Register for your NHS OpenAthens account Register for your NHS OpenAthens account by completing the online form . For more help completing the form see our blog post Register for your NHS OpenAthens Username – step-by-step instructions . Access key resources You can find links...

  NHS staff - Your help is required to build understanding of needs for access to evidence in the NHS. The national team for Knowledge and Library Services are researching how NHS staff currently access and use evidence. We have completed interviews with people from all parts of the team and in all settings across the NHS in England. The next phase of the research will seek to validate the needs that have been identified as a result. We want to understand the picture for clinical and non-clinical staff, students and apprentices, those in regular contact with their Knowledge and Library Service and those who are not. You can read about previous user research that informed the creation of the Knowledge and Library Hub and be assured that your input can make the difference. If you can help, please complete this brief survey The survey will close 12 April 2026

How well do you know the NHS? Have you been brought up abroad and are completely non-plussed by this UK obsession with a healthcare service? Take some time to learn a little... The King’s Fund is a good resource for information on the development and organisation of the NHS. Read the following articles to get some facts and figures: How does the NHS in England work and how is it changing? (King’s Fund) Watch this animation to discover the key organisations that make up the NHS and how they can collaborate with partners in the health and care system to deliver joined-up care. Key facts and figures about the NHS (King’s Fund) What's the NHS annual budget? How many doctors and nurses are there? What's the cost of an operation?  NHS workforce in a nutshell (King’s Fund) We know the NHS is facing a workforce crisis, but how many people work in the NHS in England and what are their roles? Health inequalities in a nutshell (King’s Fund) Health inequalities are a...

  This #KNOWvember take the opportunities at the Health Library to learn new skills, develop your knowledge and improve patient care. Complete these 5 essential steps to get started. Step 1: Join the Health Library Apply for your NHS Health Library membership card to access our services and facilities: borrow from our healthcare specialist collections study in the library access IT facilities such as computers, laptops, printing, photocopying and scanning request extra support from library staff to find and access information via our Literature Search Service and Article Request Service Join the library by completing the membership form . Step 2: Register for NHS OpenAthens Get quick access to online full-text resources with your NHS OpenAthens username. Use this single username / password to log on to journals, articles, ebooks, databases and other tools, specially selected for NHS staff.  Complete the online form to get your own NHS OpenAthens username...

  Have you just started working at UHNM? Join the Library! Why? Complete our short online induction for NHS staff and find out: Who we are and where we are How you can join! How can you register for an NHS OpenAthens username - you'll need it! What essential resources you can access! What apps you can use on your mobile! How to get full-text articles for free! How we can help you develop your skills! How we can do the work for you! How you can stay up to date! What are you waiting for? Complete our online induction now!

 Get to grips with literature searching on NHS resources and register to attend one of our new webinars: Introduction to the new NHS Knowledge and Library Hub - learn more about the easy to search hub and the resources you can find Literature searching in Medline (ovid) - start searching on one of the key healthcare databases Searching the Cochrane Library for systematic reviews - find the latest evidence quickly for clinical questions available on the Cochrane Library Check the dates and register online via our website. Once registered you will be sent a link to join the session.

 The way to check for NHS journals is changing! The NHS A-Z list is being withdrawn. 31st March 2022. This list will no longer be available. Switch to using Browzine. Browzine is a third party tool provided by Health Education England. No login is required to browse the list. Access to full-text articles will vary depending on your organisation: select the right list from our journals page . More help Get step-by-step instructions to using Browzine to view NHS journals Check our journals help page for tutorials, videos and blog posts More hints and tips are available on our NHS ejournals help page Contact the eResources Librarian if you need any help accessing our NHS ejournals

There have been a number of changes to the individual journal subscriptions this year for NHS staff. New Titles The Health Library has subscribed to a new collection this year, called the Ovid High Impact collection. This collection includes 85 titles: A&A Case Reports A&A Practice Academic Medicine Advances in Anatomic Pathology AIDS AM Express American Journal of Gastroenterology American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation American Journal of Surgical Pathology Anesthesia & Analgesia Anesthesiology Annals of Plastic Surgery Annals of Surgery Arteriosclerosis Arteriosclerosis and Thrombosis: A Journal of Vascular Biology Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis & Vascular Biology Cancer Nursing Circulation Circulation Research Clinical Journal of Pain Clinical Journal of...

There has recently been a re-organisation of the NHS OpenAthens groups. OpenAthens accounts may have been moved around and you may now need to register for a different group. You may also be supported by a new Admin. Your admin can help you with any problems you may encounter using your OpenAthens account or problems you experience trying to access resources. Here is a quick summary of what has occurred. The Health Library currently supports the following NHS organisations : UHNM Staff UHNM staff are supported both by the Health Library, based in the CEC at the Royal Stoke Hospital, and LERC, based at the Post-Graduate Medical Centre at the County Hospital in Stafford. Both Cheryl Kent (myself) and Liz Haines can help you with any issues with your account, although a number of staff at both libraries are able to deal with minor issues. North Staffs Combined Healthcare Staff Athens Admin for this group of staff is provided by the Outreach Team and these shoul...

On Thursday 5 th July it will be 70 years since the beginning of the National Health Service and many NHS Trusts and departments will be celebrating with events and displays nationwide. The staff at the Health Library are celebrating the event with a display in the library rotunda . We have chosen a theme which looks at NHS reform over the 70 years and will include some original documents from the library collection. We are also looking out our own NHS memorabilia, so who knows what may turn up!!! The display will be in the library from Wednesday 4 th July until Friday 13 th July and the library staff would like to invite you along to visit, everyone is welcome, library member or not (it is simple to join the library by presenting your NHS ID and completing a short membership form, click here ). For more information about our NHS Library services at the Health Library please ring 01782 679500 or visit our website www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary

There have been a number of journal titles cancelled this year for our NHS users. Due to some problems we have encountered with the new Ovid software used to produce the NHS journals A-Z list and the article links in HDAS, the application of the changes may take some time. Apologies for the delay. If you encounter any problems getting in access to articles, please contact staff at the Health Library.

We have recently had an update to the software that produces the links for our journals and articles presented within NICE HDAS and NHS A-Z Journals. Unfortunately there appear to be a number of problems associated with the implementation that you should be aware of: 1. Some full-text links are repeating - so you may get 2-5 links that are all the same, this is occurring with a number of providers, although it is not consistent. This has been reported. 2. The links for print content from the Health Library print journals don’t seem to be coming through on HDAS, although the journal title are on the A-Z. So you may need to check the A-Z for print content. This has been reported. 3. Links from Ebsco Medline with full-text are working intermittently and I don't think the content is correct ie we seem to be getting links for journal titles which are not included as full-text within medline. This has been reported. Do let me know if you come across anything looking funny...

Still not sure if you should register for an NHS Athens username? Don’t miss out on access to online resources such as journals, databases and ebooks. Our etutorial “ NHS Athens Registration ” shows you how to register – it’s really easy. Over 3,000 NHS staff across North Staffordshire have already done so.

Here at the Health Library we support NHS staff working for our partner organisations: University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM) North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership (SSoTP) Stoke on Trent Clinical Commissioning Group North Staffs Clinical Commissioning Group Stoke on Trent Public Health We have more than just books to help support your work. With your library card you will be able to: Borrow items from the library (we have DVDs as well as books) Request Inter-Library Loans Request a Literature Search Book on a training course Access the Keele network via walk-in access Learn about what we do from our video Why don’t you come along and join. Complete our application form and bring it with your NHS ID to the library counter. For access to our online resources make sure that you register for an NHS Athens username .

You'll find that the Health Library can help our many NHS staff members in lots of different ways. Check out our web page Information for NHS Staff for a list of all the different options available to you.

The Health Library is here to support NHS organisations in North Staffordshire . Try our short etutorial Supporting NHS Staff to learn about the many facilities, services and resources that we have to support your work, CPD and revalidation.

Do you work for our NHS partners and need a bit of help at the library? We have developed a number of etutorials to get you started: Supporting NHS Staff – find out about the facilities and services we have to help you in your work Using the Health Library – have you been too shy to visit? Explore the library online to help you to orientate yourself at the library NHS Athens Registration – get an Athens username / password so that you can access the NHS online resources Finding NHS Resources – want to know what resources you have access to? It might be more than you think. This etutorial will tell you all about our NHS resources.

Well, we are a joint NHS / University library and we have lots of services and resources especially for our NHS staff. Find out more about how the Health Library can support you and your work by taking our new etutorial Supporting NHS Staff. You can find a link on our Getting Started page . Have a go and let us know what you think – complete the feedback form at the end of the tutorial.

University Hospitals of North Midlands have changed their email address structure. Thus our UHNM users will find that their uhns email addresses have now become uhnm email addresses. As I understand it emails with your old address will still be received at your new address but presumable at some point in the future this will be changed. Unfortunately there is no way for us to globally update users email addresses on our eresource-related systems. How might this impact on your access to online resources? NHS Athens Your NHS Athens account will be listed with the email address that you registered with. You need to update this to your new uhnm email address. Log on to your account and click the change email address option on the left-hand-side. Why? Athens will email you to remind you to renew your username prior to it expiring. If Athens does not have your active address you may miss the reminder and your username could expire, so preventing you from accessing r...