Welcome to Helen Ashton, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS FT
Welcome to Helen Ashton who joined Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS FT recently.…
David Stewart - the view from Health Libraries North (HLN)
David Stewart’s association with Health Libraries North (HLN) is relatively recent compared to his involvement with the North West but it is by no means less significant.…
Northern Higher Education and NHS LKS Study Day
A partnership event for colleagues from Higher Education and NHS Library and Knowledge Services to share best practice and discuss collaborative working.…
Launch of the Northern Health and Wellbeing Network
The Northern Health and Wellbeing Network launch took place in November on the 15 November 2019. Presentations from the event, where available, are below.…
Experience as an Exhibitor (It's Great Up North)
I started my new role with Elsevier as Commercial Product Manager for Clinical Solutions in April 2019 and I’ve been trying to visit as many customers as possible as part of my induction and to learn more about our products and the people who use them.…
Health Care Libraries Unit North: twenty years on
Just over twenty years ago two north colleagues came to see me at The Royal society of Medicine where I headed up the library and IT services. Essentially they were head-hunting me to apply for the newly created role of Regional director of Library Services in the North West. The post was one of a series of recommendations in the SECTA Review which had been commissioned by the former North West Regional Office (RO).…
LKS Managers Meeting - 11 July 2019
The Northern LKS managers meeting, took place in Newcastle on 11 July 2019.…
Getting Retro’ with the planning posse
Members of the Great Up North Conference Planning Team met via Skype on 2nd July to discuss our learning from the recent event. Being good Knowledge Specialists, we chose the Retrospect from the KM Toolkit to help us to identify and record our reflections.…
Its Great Up North – Job Shadowing
When I was offered the chance to attend the Its Great Up North Conference on 6th and 7th June in Harrogate as part of job shadowing, I immediately said yes. Although I work in Health Education England,…
It's Great Up North - friendly and well organised (but Harrogate needs more pavements)
Health Libraries North was a friendly and well organised conference that was high energy and focused on ensuring positive experiences of the attendees. Whilst I didn’t gain any specific ideas on…