Library Contact details on your Smartphone

We are currently experimenting with QR codes so you may see a few more popping up around our libraries.


If you have a QR (Quick Response) code reader on your Smartphones then you can scan the image to the left and get Worcestershire Health Libraries contact details on your phone. You can save this page as a bookmark and always have our contact details close to hand.

QR codes can easily link to content on your smartphones, saving you having to enter cumbersome web addresses or having to search for information.

After a good read?

A member of Worcestershire Health Libraries strongly recommends 'How Doctors think' by Jerome Groopman.

So if you fancy learning more about the physician / patient relationship, or the processes behind the decisions doctors make, then pop into your nearest health library and get your hands on a copy.
   

Stay up-to-date the easy way

Have a look at the page we have created for Worcestershire Health and Care Trust Safety and Quality team by clicking HERE.

Browse through the different tabs to find the latest news and research from all the relevant sources you use on a daily basis.

Let me know if you would like to explore the possibility of creating one of these for your team.

Nick
nicholas.smith@worcsacute.nhs.uk
   

The Lancet

The Lancet is now available online via Athens from 2008 to date, so you will be able to read the latest issue on any computer, using your Athens username and password. NHS Evidence has agreed a 3 year contract with Elsevier for this access and for all libraries in NHS England to receive a paper copy.

If you haven't already got one, you can create an Athens account by visiting http://www.wkp.nhs.uk/ and clicking on 'Create an Athens account' in the left column. Don't forget to activate your account by following the instructions in the email that you'll receive after you've completed and sent the form.

Merry Christmas

Worcestershire Health Libraries would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

December Current Awareness Update!

Visit http://worcestershirehealthlibraries.blogspot.com/ to access the December 2011 Worcestershire Health Libraries Mental Health Current Awareness Bulletin.You will find the latest Mental Health research published in the last few months, and available through Worcestershire Health Libraries.

Any queries please contact me.

Bringing health information to the work place

WHL have arranged four health information drop ins available to all NHS staff. Hosted at the Internet Study Points these will at:

15th December 2.30 - 4.30 Pershore Hospital

16th December 11.10 to 3.00 Prospect View, Malvern

20th December 11.30 to 3.00 Upton Health Centre

22nd December 11.30 to 3.oo Malvern Community Hospital

Librarians will be present to promote these sites as places for staff to do e-learning and study. They will also demonstrate health information resources (athens passwords, databases and e-journals) as well as advertise the remote library services such as literature searches, workplace delivery of books/articles and over the phone information queries.

All are welcome and there is no need to book. Just ask at the reception for directions to the room

For further details please contact David Chamberlain, Lead Librarian Community Outreach, 01527 505773