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.…
Hello, my name is Amanda Balaam, and I’ve recently started as Evidence and Library Service Manager at Mersey Care. I am not new to the NHS, having been at the Northern Care Alliance as an Assistant Librarian for almost 5 years. Prior to this, my experience is almost 25 years in school libraries, most recently in Suffolk for 20 years, although I am a Northerner born (Yorkshire) and bred (Lancashire)!…
Hello!I’m Caitlynne and have recently replaced Liam as the full time librarian at the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHSFT.…
A description of the role and purpose of the recently established national Mental Health Libraries Network…
There is something very Victoria Wood about the words “pelvic floor” also known as, lower your voice for this bit, “women’s’ problems”, but it is great to be involved with a research project that is relevant to all women particularly those of a certain age.…
Two weeks ago I attended the International Clinical Librarians Conference (ICLC) in Leicester. As a grateful recipient of a YOHHLnet CPD bursary here are my reflections on the two day event. On review…
As KNOWvember comes into view once more, here at Pennine Care we have been reflecting on our activities for 2022. The theme last year was breaking down the barriers to mobilising knowledge in the NHS. We used the Knowledge Management tool to examine those barriers and review what steps we could take to overcome them…
LIHNN members catch the end of the NHS exhibition marking not only its 75th year but a poetic documentation of the lived experience of its workforce throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic.…
Introducing the new KLS team at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust – Mary Barden, Knowledge & Library Services Manager, and Naomi Majek, Assistant Librarian.…
"...nothing short of the reorganisation of society, and the redistribution of power and wealth, is what is required to – and I don’t feel it is overly dramatic to write this – actually save the world."…
