The 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?…
The Greater Manchester Health Library Partnership event took place in Manchester on the 14 May 2019…
At 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.…
As 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.…
March 22nd was a pleasant spring day in Halifax, West Yorkshire, for the grand reopening of Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust’s library space.…
The It’s Great Up North conference planning committee are pleased to announce that bookings for the conference are nearly full.…
The 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 – it was a very informative course and I learned a lot from it.…
Between 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.…
My name is Amy Clancy and I am documenting my year as a graduate trainee at Greater Manchester Mental Health and Cheshire Wirral Partnership. I am now three months into my graduate trainee year, and it’s hard to believe I am already a quarter of the way through! In this blog post I’ll discuss changes that have occurred within my role since my last post, as well as reflect on my first three months as a graduate trainee.…
This 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…
