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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) recently published " Finding, using and managing information: nursing, midwifery, health and social care information literacy competencies " This helps staff to understand what skills they need to achieve in relation to information management. The Health Library can help you to develop and demonstrate these skills and we have put together a checklist of our resources, services and training that will assist you. Here you will find out about the books, journals, databases and websites we have on offer, how to use our relevant services and what training you can book to help you get to grips with information management.

Aspiring to excellence, the final report of the independent inquiry into modernising medical careers is now available from the modernising medical careers website. Sir John Tooke calls for the creation of a new over-seeing body to standardise training and act as an interface between policy development and implementation. The report highlights eight areas of concern where action is required.