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New post on blog - It's Great Up North21st June 2019Presentations and pictures from day 1 and day 2 of It's Great Up North are now available on the blog. read more...
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New post on blog - NHS/HE Meeting - Edge Hill University - 17 May 201914th June 2019There is a need for colleagues in NHS and Higher Education Library Knowledge Services (HE LKS) to maintain and develop links. read more...
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New Blog Post - Revisiting childhood memories on a library placement10th June 2019When 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. read more...
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New Monthly Report added to Website3rd June 2019The HCLU monthly report for our objective 2 "There is enhanced quality of Healthcare LKS" has been added to the website. This report covers the period December 2018 to May 2019. read more...
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New Blog Post - Summer reading leaves us bronzed in Birmingham30th May 2019Lancashire Teaching Hospitals won a bronze award for our Summer Reading Journey Campaign at CILIP’s Publicity and Public Relations Group Marketing Excellence Awards Conference. read more...
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New blog post - Shelf-Help (or, why everything is better with self-help books in Mental Health)28th May 2019The 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? read more...
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Greater Manchester Health Library Partnership Event21st May 2019The Greater Manchester Health Library Partnership event took place in Manchester on the 14 May 2019. read more...
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New Blog Post - Sharing Tricks: Leeds Libraries for Health training workshop7th May 2019At 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. read more...
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Updated Essential Sites List for April 2019 and Template Letter1st May 2019NHS Library and Knowledge Services (LKS) maintain a list of secure and legitimate health and care knowledge and education websites which NHS Trusts are encouraged not to block. read more...
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New Monthly Report added to Website30th April 2019The HCLU monthly report for our objective 1 "There is improved consistency and increased productivity and efficiency of Healthcare LKS and HCLU" has been added to the website. read more...
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Health Care Libraries Unit North – some changes from 1st May 201924th April 2019As 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. read more...
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New Blog Post - Seasonal Splendour in Halifax23rd April 2019March 22nd was a pleasant spring day in Halifax, West Yorkshire, for the grand reopening of Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust’s library space. read more...
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Final places now available! It’s Great Up North – Northern Healthcare LKS Conference 6th and 7th June 2019 Old Swan, Harrogate16th April 2019The It’s Great Up North conference planning committee are pleased to announce that bookings for the conference are nearly full. read more...
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New post on blog - FADE to grey15th April 2019The 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. read more...
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New Blog Post - Did We Get a Grasp of CASP5th April 2019Between the 6th and the 8th March 2019 a truckload of librarians and knowledge specialists from across the North headed to Lancaster for an intense three-day train-the-trainer course on the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP). In this post some of the participants share their initial reflections on the training. read more...
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Graduate Library and Knowledge Services Trainee – Three Month Summary5th April 2019My name is Amy Clancy and I am documenting my year as a graduate trainee at Greater Manchester Mental Health and Cheshire Wirral Partnership. read more...
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Not quite seven stories4th April 2019This year the UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum was held at Seven Stories: The National Centre for Children’s Books in Newcastle. It was an instant hit with the organising committee and conference read more...
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Health Literacy Awareness Training - Coming to a Venue Near You4th April 2019If you missed the health literacy awareness raising sessions towards the end of 2018, more sessions are being planned for this year. read more...
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New post on blog - The more things change the more they stay the same – a library view4th April 2019At the heart of the modern library service are information sharing and collaboration. We may think that modern IT infrastructure and the migration of evidence to an online environment is what really drives this forward. But is this right? read more...
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New post on blog - HUB LIFE1st April 2019A new chapter for Keyll Darree Library: Developing and building Cooill Darree Hub read more...
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HCLU Implementation Plan 2019-2027th March 2019The HCLU Implementation Plan 2019-20 is now on the website. read more...