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Welcome to your Library & Knowledge Services

Access to knowledge and library services is available to all working in primary care (GPs, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals, ophthalmologists, dentists, managers and administrative staff) working across Surrey Heartlands via a dedicated Evidence Librarian.
Details of key services and resources for primary care staff are included below or contact Kerry Seelhoff if you have a specific question.

Kerry Seelhoff

Epsom & St Helier University
Hospitals

kerry.seelhoff@nhs.net
@SnippetsK

Key services

Key resources

NHS Knowledge & Library Hub connects NHS staff to the following NHS funded e-resources using your NHS OpenAthens account . If you need support in accessing the e-resources contact Kerry Seelhoff

Clinical resources:

  • BMJ Best Practice : a clinical decision making tool which includes a comorbidities manager and patient leaflets

  • Royal Marsden Manual of Nursing Procedures, Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines, BNF, BNFc and Clinical Knowledge Summaries

  • ebooks via Kortext: a range of clinical and non-clinical ebooks on topics such as leadership and mentoring

  • ejournals via BrowZine

  • Healthcare databases: including Medline, EMBASE and CINAHL

 

Library resources by profession:

Munch and Learn: bite-size training via MS Teams

We offer a range of Munch and Learn scheduled sessions (approx. 30 mins) which can also be delivered at team meetings and PLTs. The latest Munch & Learn timetable has details on how to book and the topics covered include:

  • Accessing and using e-resources

  • Evidence searching

  • Academic and reflective writing

  • Critical appraisal

  • Health literacy

Evidence searches and summaries

Your Evidence Librarian can search for the latest evidence to inform your decision making, quality improvement work, patient care and support your professional development. Our aim is to save you time by searching across a range of healthcare databases and high quality resources, highlighting relevant research and guidance. To request an evidence search please complete our  Evidence Search request form .

On the right is a case study of one of our evidence search requests and below are examples of other search topics:

ANP: Patient recall after a consultation
GP: Cervical screening interventions for people with learning disabilities
GP: Optimising patient fitness for surgery before lung cancer lobectomy
GP: Impact of menopause on mental health
Nurse: Pathophysiology, epidemiology and demographics of severe asthma
Nurse: Stigma and diabetes type 2
Nurse: Cervical screening interventions for people who have experienced sexual abuse
PCN Manager: Frequent attenders
Pharmacist: Improving chronic kidney coding in general practice
Pharmacist: Medicine information for vegans
Physiotherapist: Group sessions for pain management
Physiotherapist: Abdominal massage to relieve constipation in people with learning disabilities

Keeping up to date with current research

KnowledgeShare enables you to receive regular email alerts highlighting the latest evidence, tailored to your specific clinical and professional interests. The web-based tool searches journal articles, guidelines, reports from a range of high-quality sources of information across health and social care. Sign up via our KnowledgeShare form or contact Kerry Seelhoff for further information.
The following digital flyers have resources tailored to supporting primary care staff in their development of:

Surrey Heartlands Authored Papers

To showcase the range of primary care expertise in Surrey Heartlands, the Surrey Training Hub Library Services have compiled a report of authored papers in the medical health databases.

2023-2025 publications

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