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If you want to use the library services you can make a request online by using our online forms . Complete our online forms to request the following: Inter-library loan request for a book that is not available within our collections Inter-library loan request for an article that is not available within our collections Literature search request to a member of the Librarian team Stock suggestion to be added to our collections Training course booking to reserve your place “Celebrating Libraries in a Digital World”

Follow the Health Library @ceclibrary on Twitter for the news about the library as well as the latest healthcare news headlines. Follow us on Twitter for information about: service updates, resource updates and the latest training opportunities. We’ll also pass on information about published research and guidelines as well as the latest news. We follow a wide range of local and national healthcare twitter feeds. You can find out more about the following types of twitter feeds: North Staffs NHS Tweeters Keele Twitter Links NHS-Based Organisations Let us know if you would like your organisation to be added to our lists. Our Twitter notifications are monitored regularly, although not constantly. If you would like to contact us via Twitter please feel free to either tweet or DM us. Please remember that Twitter is a public space and behave accordingly; take care of your personal information. “Celebrating Libraries in a Digital World”

You can contact the Health Library online by completing our online Contact Us form . If you have any comments, complaints or compliments that you’d like to make about the Health Library, its facilities, services and resources then feel free to use our online form. The library management will consider your comments and get back to you if you want them to. “Celebrating Libraries in a Digital World”

The latest available training dates have been added to the Keele scheduled library training programme . Make sure your are prepared for the year ahead by developing your skills in literature searching, critical appraisal and using refworks. To reserve your place contact the Training Team or complete our form .

During your time at Keele and while working on NHS placements, students with the School of Nursing and Midwifery and Medical School will use a number of different logins and accounts. Here is a short explanation of what they are: Keele Computer Username & Password Your Keele computer username and password is given to you by Keele IT. It is a single login that gives you access to the Keele network as well as online library resources. You should contact Keele IT if you have problems with this account. If you have problems accessing online resources please contact the campus library . NHS / HE OpenAthens Account Your NHS / HE OpenAthens account is given to you in your 1 st or 2 nd year of study. It starts nhsac …This login will give you access to core NHS-subscribed online resources. NHS / HE accounts are managed by Campus Library and you should contact Steve Parton or Paul Johnson if you have problems with this account. NHS IT Account You may be given an ...

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Do want to learn more about how to use our resources and find the best evidence?  We've got courses that can help you to get to grips with Medline, Clinical Key, the Cochrane Library, Dynamed, TRIP and BMJ Best Practice. You can also update your skills on critical appraisal to make sure you're selecting the best articles. Find out more on our NHS training page and request your place by completing our form . If you can't make any of our scheduled dates then get in touch with the training team to arrange a 1-to-1 session.

The understanding of vascular disease and how it can affect our lives; by the general public, is often poor. The Circulation Foundation strives to highlight and promote awareness of vascular disease to the general public, so that everyone understands how important their work is. Vascular disease is the collective term for diseases of the arteries, veins and lymphatics. Every part of the body to which blood flows can be affected by it. It’s as common as cancer and heart disease and accounts for 40% of deaths in the UK, many of which are preventable. Arterial diseases include : Peripheral vascular disease, Aneurysmal disease, Carotid disease and Stroke, Leg ulcers Venous diseases include: Varicose veins, Leg ulcers, Deep vein thrombosis Lymphatic disease include: Lymphoedema For more information surrounding vascular disease please visit the NHS Choices and Circulation Foundation websites: https://www.nhs.uk/search/?q=vascular+disease https://www.circulationfoundation.org...

We support a range of NHS staff throughout Staffordshire. We also work with our library colleagues at the Library, Education and Resource Centre (LERC) (County Hospital in Stafford) and Midlands Partnership NHS FT to provide a service across Staffordshire. You can use services based at the Library and online. Services available will depend on the Library and who you work for. Here are the Libraries available to you: NHS Organisation Library Service University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM) Health Library for North Staffordshire (CEC, Royal Stoke) LERC (County Hospital, Stafford) North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Health Library for North Staffordshire (CEC, Royal Stoke) LERC (County Hospital, Stafford) Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) Health Library for North Staffordshire (CEC, Royal Stoke) LERC (County Hospital, Stafford) Stafford Library (St Geo...

If you have attended one of our scheduled Training Courses recently we'd really like to get some feedback. This helps us to plan and improve our services. We've updated our Training Course Evaluation online form as part of our website improvement. Please complete the form to let us know what you thought about any training course that you attended.

If you would like to book on one of our scheduled training courses you can request a place using our online booking form . Our form has been updated and there are now 2! All the NHS-based courses are available on one form and all the Keele-based courses are on a separate form. Hopefully you will now find it much easier to book on the course you want.

The NHS networked computers, which were located in the IT suite, have been relocated to the study desks in the Rotunda. NHS provision now consists of: 3 PCs and the printer in the old photocopy room 8 PCs in the main rotunda You will need your NHS work-based username / password to log in to the PCs.

The Health Library subscribes to a range of online journals specifically for our NHS users. You can find out what is available by logging on to your NHS Journals A-Z list with your OpenAthens username . You'll be able to search for a particular journal title and see whether it is available, what holdings are covered and where you can access the title from. Note that we buy journal titles from different databases, platforms and publishers. The title you need may be available from a different platform to the main publisher. To find out how to search for the full-text access of a journal title, check our step-by-step instructions on our Information Skills for Health blog. To learn more about NHS ejournals complete our online tutorial .

If our librarian staff are not available to talk to about your Literature Search you can put in a request online and they will get back to you. We have updated our online forms . Please complete with as much information as possible. You can request a literature search on a clinical topic related to patient care, nursing or clinical practice or for something non-clinical such as management or education related topics. This service is available to NHS staff and Keele academics.

Dynamed Plus has been upgraded. You still get evidence-based information about a wide range of clinical conditions and diseases, but there is now increased personalisation. The name has also reverted back to Dynamed. I'll be updating all our content and help over the next few days, but all the links should still work. Dynamed is available to UHNM staff via your OpenAthens login.

Just a quick reminder that the Health Library will be closed on Monday 26th August for the Bank Holiday. You can still access online resources via the Health Library website .

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...

Library Search upgrade - Tuesday 20th August : Library Search portal is being upgraded on 20th August. Most of the functionality and design will remain the same, however, Saved Searches will need to be saved again after the update.

We have updated our online form that allows you to request a book inter-library loan . We are in the process of moving all our forms to a new platform. Hopefully this will make the forms clearer and easier to use. If you would like to make any comment about the new forms you can do so via our  Contact Us  form.

If you have completed one of our Online Tutorials recently we'd really like to hear what you thought. We'll be updating them next year and we'd like to know what you liked and what you didn't like so that we can improve them and make them even better. We've got a new feedback form that you can use to let us know what you thought.