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​Health Information Resources for Patients and the Public

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​Local & National Support Groups

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Do you write information for patients?

These are some useful online resources:
  • Toolkit for producing patient information
  • Health Information in Other Languages
  • The Health Literacy Place
  • Health Literacy UK
  • The Information Standard
  • ​patient.info
  • Patient Information Forum
  • NHS Choices
  • The Plain English Campaign
  • Knowledge for Healthcare - Patient & Public Information
  • ​​CLIN CORP 20 Written Patient Information (Trust Intranet only)

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Health Literacy - ​Information for health professionals
Health Literacy - Information for patients, clients and customers

What Our Library Users Are Saying...

"Apprentices now have greater access to resources, not only at College or University but in the workplace. The benefits are not solely logistical; the resources and services available to them via the Library & Knowledge Service are current, relevant and varied."

"The library provided me with the evidence base to support a service development of developing a early discharge detox policy. This has improved patient clinical outcomes. This also reduces length of stay and re-attendance at A&E."

"Literature searches carried out by the library staff assisted in the development of a new education program for unregistered staff in response to the Francis report."

"The library carried out a literature search and provided my team with a wealth of relevant information from a variety of different sources that we were able to use within our poster presentation."  


"The information I receive has a positive impact in my role as a Non-Executive Director. Over the past year in post I have found the library alerting service to be an invaluable resource it is a great way to be kept informed via the on-line platform that I can access at times to suit."