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NHS Library Essentials

A guide to library services and key resources for NHS staff

Library services and support for NHS staff

The library offers a wide range of services to support you with your clinical practice and workplace decision-making.

Our NHS librarians are available to help with any additional needs or enquiries you may have, including 1:1 training.

Ayo Ogundipe (NHS Liaison Support Librarian and OpenAthens Administrator) email: aogundip@sgul.ac.uk tel: 020 8725 5433

 

Information Skills Training

If you want to improve your literature searching skills and find out more about the resources available to you, the library runs a range of training sessions from getting the most out of databases to keeping up-to-date with the most recent research in your field.  See our full list of training sessions.

Can't make one of the courses?  Email liaison@sgul.ac.uk to see if we can arrange a 1:1 session at a time that suits you.

 

We also have a range of self-help guides to download online.

Clinical and Research Enquiry Service (CARES)

The library provides a free literature searching service to support patient care, service evaluation and research.  Additionally we can set up an alert so that you receive emails about the newest publications in your area of interest.  Both clinical and non-clinical queries are accepted; simply complete the online form.

On-Call Librarian - Help at Hand

Are you looking for some extra help with referencing, literature searching, or finding and accessing healthcare information?

Our on-call librarian service offers flexible support on library skills. There is no need to book, simply visit the Library Helpdesk between 10am and 2pm (Monday to Friday) and ask to speak to the on-call librarian.

From the big questions to the little ones, our on-call librarians are here to help.

Unable to join us in person? Email liaison@sgul.ac.uk

E-Learning

NHS eLearning for Healthcare

e-LfH is a Health Education England Programme in partnership with the NHS and Professional Bodies to support patient care by providing free, high quality e-learning for the training and education of the healthcare workforce across the UK.

e-LfH is currently developing and delivering more than 90 e-learning programmes from audiology to anaesthesia, dentistry to dermatology, electronic fetal monitoring to end of life care, primary care to prescribing. Sessions are designed to be engaging and interactive, and use high quality images, video, audio and animation to help users understand and retain knowledge. Content is presented using a variety of templates such as ‘real-life’ scenarios, case studies, ‘knowledge bites’, MCQs and e-libraries.

Library YouTube Channel

Visit the library YouTube channel for videos on searching the literature via platforms such as Ebsco, Ovid and Proquest.

 St George's, University of London Library - YouTube