There is a need for colleagues in NHS and Higher Education Library Knowledge Services (HE LKS) to maintain and develop links. HE students are the future staff members of the health service, with HE students taking clinical placements in Trusts served by NHS LKS. HCLU have held an annual meeting with colleges working in HELKS across the North West to provide them with an overview of the wider NHS and offer the opportunity for informal liaison at HEI LKS level.…

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When I did my postgraduate diploma in Library and Information Management at Manchester Metropolitan University recently, doing a placement was strongly encouraged. It was an opportunity I was keen to take up, as I hadn’t worked in a library before.…

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Lancashire Teaching Hospitals won a bronze award for their Summer Reading Journey Campaign at CILIP’s Publicity and Public Relations Group Marketing Excellence Awards Conference…

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The idea that a self-help book could actually be as good as a professional form of help seems like it’s a fairly recent one. Think of the titles we know and love - Feel the fear and do it anyway, How to make friends and influence people, the Overcoming… series – these all deal with modern social problems with a blend of readable psychology and a common-sense therapeutic style. Whatever did we do before them?…

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The Greater Manchester Health Library Partnership event took place in Manchester on the 14 May 2019…

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At Leeds Libraries for Health partnership ten of us deliver a joint training programme. We each have our own ways of training people and we wanted to explore this so that we could learn from each other.…

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As you will know the HCLU team are transferring to direct employment by Health Education England from Wednesday 1st May 2019. This has resulted in a number of changes.…

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March 22nd was a pleasant spring day in Halifax, West Yorkshire, for the grand reopening of Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust’s library space.…

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The It’s Great Up North conference planning committee are pleased to announce that bookings for the conference are nearly full.…

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The Northern Libraries’ grey literature course took place in March 2019, delivered by Jo Hopper, organised by the Knowledge for Healthcare CPD Group and attended by librarians from all over the Northern region – it was a very informative course and I learned a lot from it.…

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