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NHS: Library Workshops, Drop Ins and 1-1s

A general guide to Library Services for NHS staff via King's College London

Build your skills

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Free hands-on webinar sessions are available for staff at GSTT and KCH to help you improve your skills in finding and understanding evidence. Please note that we are just restarting these sessions in a webinar format and at present only our critical appraisal sessions are available. Staff from SLAM should contact their Library and Knowledge Services to check the status of equivalent training. King's College Hospital Staff  also normally have access to training sessions at the PRUH (search Information Skills on Kwiki for more details and to see if these are running at present). 

 

GSTT and KCH staff can:

  • Sign up as an individual using the calendar below. There are normally sessions running several times a month with dates added regularly so you can plan ahead. At present as we restart our teaching in an online format we are starting with critical appraisal sessions. All courses are currently run as webinars using MS Teams. When face-to-face sessions resume these will be at the Weston Education Centre Library at Denmark Hill and the New Hunt's House Library at Guy's Campus. You can attend courses at which ever venue is most convenient. 
  • Request a session for a group. This can be tailored to your needs and using examples relevant to your profession or team. Talks can be delivered as part of your education meetings or to support local project work.  Workshops are currently delivered as webinars and may also be offered in our training rooms as we return to campus.
  • Access elearning on the King's Health Partners Learning Hub and e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH).

eLearning

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:

1) Login to the Learning Hub with your Trust network login - click the relevant organisation logo

  • KCH staff - use your network login

  • GSTT staff - enter gstt\ before your username
2) Search for Finding Evidence (or browse the Professional Development Section)

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

Building the skills

Applying the skills 

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.

Sign-up sessions

Sign-up sessions running in the next few months are highlighted below. For webinar/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 library@kcl.ac.uk  

  

Publication dates for NHS workshops:

Workshops running in: Book a place from:
Oct, Nov, Dec 1st Sept
Jan, Feb, Mar 1st Dec
Apr, May, Jun 1st March
Jul, Aug, Sep 1st June

Library Drop Ins

library drop-ins have been cancelled

Qualitative Critical Appraisal Introductory Video

This pair of narrated slide set supports our Critical Appraisal of Qualitative Methods course. You can use it to refresh your understanding or if you are unable to attend a session.

The first video offers an introduction.  Use the skip button to access the second video that covers Qualitative Methods.

Quantitative Critical Appraisal Introductory Video

Narrated slide sets in support of our Critical Appraisal of Quantitative Methods course. You can use it to refresh your understanding or if you are unable to attend a session.

The first video offers an introduction.  Use the skip button to access the second video that covers Quantitative Methods.

(NHS) Book a 30 minute online 1-1 with a librarian

Due to COVID-19, our 1-1 appointments have moved online. They will be taking place on Microsoft Teams for the foreseeable future.

How do I book? You can book by clicking the button below. Once you've made your booking, you will be sent an electronic invitation you can use to access the appointment. We recommend joining with video enabled, for optimal benefit. If you can only join to listen/see us and communicate via chat, please let your librarian know ahead of the appointment.

How do I use Microsoft Teams? MS Teams works with Chrome, IE and Edge browsers, and can be downloaded to both Windows PCs and Macs. More guidance is available here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/teachlearntech/assets/student-view-of-microsoft-teams.pdf. If you are NHS staff, the good news is that Teams has been made generally available to the NHS – further information can be found here  https://support.nhs.net/.

What are the 1-1s for? These sessions are designed to help with using the library's online resources, databases and literature searching. Please note, we cannot assist with proofreading enquiries. Similarly, 1-1 appointments are not intended for supporting systematic reviews, but we can help with the basics like searching databases effectively, if that's where you're stuck. 

What other help is available? Before seeking a 1-1 appointment, we encourage you to try out our other online support channels. We've designed them with your frequently asked questions and common issues in mind. Information on these channels can be found elsewhere on this page, and you can find out how to contact us via email or Live Chat on our Contact Us webpages for further questions.

Until we see you again, stay safe and healthy!

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