#nhs libraries

Midlands and East NHS Libraries Event

Yesterday I headed up to Leicester to attend a day conference for NHS librarians working in the Midlands and East of England region. Leadership, technology, and leadership through technology were definitely the themes of the day, and it was interesting to see what colleagues in other Trusts were doing in these areas. In addition to these more big picture concerns, I picked up a couple of useful…

Critical appraisal is the process by which students and researchers evaluate the quality of a research article to assess the the usefulness of its findings. My library runs critical appraisal training, and at present it is the only course we offer that I don’t teach myself. This is mainly due to a lack of confidence on my part – my background is in the humanities, not the sciences, and the…

Royal Marsden Manual workshop

I spent the morning at the Warner Library (Mid Essex Hospitals NHS Trust) in Chelmsford, where I was given a crash course in the use of the Royal Marsden Manual. The course was led by Janet Broome of Wiley publishers, and ended up being a rather Cambridge-heavy affair – more than half of the attendees came from my own library! The Marsden Manual is a resource designed to be used by nurses seeking…