NHS: Training

Library Services Welcome 

A tailored session helping you understand what Library Services can offer your team or department (particularly if you have little familiarity). Can be delivered as part of your own scheduled meeting. Request a session via the Booking Form.

Library Services Update

A tailored session helping you understand the new and existing services that Library Services can offer your team of department. Can be delivered onsite as part of your own scheduled meeting. Request a session via the Booking Form.

Rapid access to evidence-based resources

This 45 minute session will explore some key resources for finding reviews, guidelines and summaries to support your work. Book your place on a session via the calendar on this page or request a session for a group via the Booking Form.

Introduction to healthcare databases

This session provides a hands-on introduction to searching MEDLINE, CINAHL and other databases to find journal articles, including planning your search. Book your place on a session via the calendar on this page or request a session for a group via the Booking Form.

Introduction to critical appraisal of quantitative/qualitative research

Increase your confidence in your critical appraisal skills in these introductory sessions. Learn about the main concepts of critical appraisal and practise appraising an article in a group. Book your place on a session via the calendar on this page or request a session for a group via the Booking Form.

Searching for Systematic Reviews

Information available on the Searching for Systematic Reviews Library Guide. Sign-up sessions, elearning and an online forum are available for affiliate staff.

Good Clinical Practice
The GMC Good Clinical Practice course is available via the King's Health Partners Clinical Trial Office

Sign-up sessions running in the next few months are highlighted below. For venue details and to book a place, click on the session you are interested in and follow the onscreen prompts. You can limit by hospital site or course.

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If you have problems with your booking please contact libraryservices@kcl.ac.uk  

No workshops running at a time suitable for you? Fill in our short workshop preferences survey to let us know. We'll take into account your suggestions around timings and location when we schedule the next batch of workshops.  

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If you have recently attended one of the above NHS sessions you can give us feedback via this survey.

Finding Evidence (KHP Learning Hub)

Are you trying to develop a search strategy? Struggling to access the full text of a journal article? Looking for reviews, guidelines or summaries of evidence? Searching for information but getting lots of irrelevant results or nothing at all?

This course will help you find the evidence you need to inform patient care or service development, update guidelines or policies, support assignments or professional development and inform research.

To access the course:

The course includes the modules below from the NHS e-LfH Literature Searching Programme.

The Learning Hub also hosts a growing collection of other resources including podcasts and guidance on How to read a paper.

Literature Searching Programme (e-LfH)

Building the foundations

• Module 1 Introduction to searching
• Module 2 Where do I start searching?
• Module 3 How do I start to develop a search strategy?

Building the skills

• Module 4 Too many results? How to narrow your search
• Module 5 Too few results? How to broaden your search
• Module 6 Searching with subject headings

Applying the skills 

• Module 7 How to search the Healthcare Databases (HDAS)

The modules are short (each taking no more than 20 minutes to complete) and may be ‘dipped into’ for reference, or completed to obtain a certificate. 

e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) hosts extensive elearning resources tailored for NHS staff - many require OpenAthens to login.