UHNM staff
Make the most of NHS resources and develop your skills by signing up to our training opportunities. Courses are available online or face-to-face.
1 to 1 Training
The training team offer personalised 1-to-1 training sessions. Please be prepared to discuss your project requirements and any searching you have already completed.
- Book an appointment with Rachael
- Book an appointment with Reana
Group courses and workshops
An Introduction to Publishing BMJ Case Reports
Thinking of publishing in BMJ Case Studies but unsure where to begin? This 45-minute course will help you develop an understanding of what to include in your case study and where to submit. This session includes a quick demonstration of key websites and databases to help you add references to support your manuscript. Run by UHNM and Keele Librarians, this course will help you build your confidence and career portfolio. Certificates are provided upon completion.
- Contact the training team to arrange a session
Critical Appraisal; mitigating bias in health research
Critical Appraisal is a key skill but why is it so complicated? This 45-minute course run by UHNM and Keele Librarians will help build your confidence in appraising a RCT. By going through key strategies researchers use to mitigate bias will help you understand common themes that feature in quantitative studies. Such as selection bias, dealing with confounders, attrition, publication bias and data dredging. This session will touch on basic statistics, the use of P values, CI and consider MID/MICD in the paper. Further support materials and signposting will also be provided. Certificates are provided upon completion if requested.
- Contact the training team to arrange a session
Searching Ovid Medline
Thinking of writing your own research paper but unsure where to begin? This one-hour course will help you develop a robust search strategy which can be transferred into other databases for maximum paper retrieval. Run by UHNM and Keele Librarians, this course will help you build the ‘Literature review’ section of your paper using Ovid Medline.
This course is aimed at NHS staff and Keele academics and researchers working on NHS projects. You will require an NHS OpenAthens username.
- Wednesday 4th November 2026 12:30pm Book your place online
Clinical Key
The clinical search engine for ebooks, ejournals, clinical overviews, topic summaries, videos and patient information leaflets.
To book: email Olga Pattison at olga.pattison@uhnm.nhs.uk
Health Literacy Awareness
This session, accredited by the Royal Society for Public Health UK (RSPH), aims to: introduce you to the concept of health literacy; consider the impact low health literacy can have on your work, your patients, and the NHS; and explore practical methods that can be used to help improve health literacy and the patient experience. This is a 1 hour interactive session delivered online.
- Monday 14th September 10:00am to 11:00am
- Tuesday 13th October 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Friday 27th November 2:00pm to 3:00pm
To book: email Debbie Wyatt at debbie.wyatt@uhnm.nhs.uk
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
Get started, with Health Library staff. Copilot can synthesize information from the web, understand and generate text, create images and more. We have designed a brief introductory training session, showing you some useful tips and tricks which save your time and help you get the most from the tool.
To book: email Olga Pattison at olga.pattison@uhnm.nhs.uk
