Health Information Week 2025 - Northern colleagues, we need your support!
A call out from Dawn Grundy for new project team members to help support with changes made to Health Information Week.…
A call out from Dawn Grundy for new project team members to help support with changes made to Health Information Week.…
This blog post details the experiences organising a series of Randomised Coffee Trials within the Yorkshire (YOHHLNet) and Northern Health Libraries Networks highlighting the program's success in building bridges, facilitating knowledge exchange, and ultimately strengthening the network.…
Casual research reveals that quite a few NHS Library & Knowledge Services operate book groups. The approach and format differ, but all share the same purpose; the discussion of books is the main activity. I started an after-work book group at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust in January 2022.…
Hello everyone, my name is Opeyemi Soyemi and I have recently joined the Library and Knowledge Service team at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation as a Trainee Clinical Librarian. This is an exciting opportunity to learn, develop and deliver support to staff and learners in the hospital.…
Seen Ridley Scott’s Napoleon and you want to make a library video? What could go wrong? It could be an epic tale of eBooks and eBook worms. The library video is a niche genre of not much explored content. If you must contribute, then here are ten tips on what to do and what not to do based entirely on my own experience and many continuing failures.…
Between Nov 6th 2023 and Dec 8th 2023 the operational team (Sarah, Louisa, Deirdre, Georgia, Sarah Jane and Niamh) at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals library ran our annual festive hamper competition. To enter people had to be a member of the library, borrow a book from our fiction or well-being collections between the specified dates and submit a review of the book borrowed. People could submit a paper review – we handed these out when they joined – or they could email them in.…
Working with the Patient Experience (PE) team was an opportunity for the LKS to better support this team and also a continuing professional development opportunity for me to explore new ways of working. I worked with my PE colleagues for 2 days a week in October 2022 for an initial 3-month period which was then extended to end in September 2023. The PE team works with staff across the Trust, bringing together a variety of feedback from patients, relatives and carers; staff can then utilise this feedback to improve services. The team also manage the Trust volunteers.…
Hello everyone. My name is Michael Boyes and I am just settling nicely into my new role as Librarian in Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT [LUHFT] where I’m based principally at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital site. This is my first job following my time at the University of Liverpool where I studied for an undergraduate degree in Anatomy and Physiology, a master’s in Biomedical Sciences and finally a PhD in Cellular and Molecular Physiology.…
In February 2023, PCFT launched a new Research Strategy . Part of the strategy is to develop associated Research Units. There are currently five, covering Older People, People with Learning Disabilities, Young People, People with Psychosis, and OPTIMED (Medicines Optimisation and Safety). The Knowledge Service assigned a particular Knowledge Specialist to three of the units (Older People, People with Learning Disabilities, Children & Adolescents). The named Knowledge Specialist was to act as a point of contact/access for Knowledge Services, who members could get to know by them attending meetings and contact directly.…
Inspired by BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs the Libraries at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals ran an initiative called Castaway Books. We asked our users what 3 books they would take with them if they were to be Castaway to a remote location & the reasons why.…