Noclor Programme Training
Working with Noclor, we are proud to offer the following training sessions to nursing and allied health professionals at Whittington Health; West and North London ICB staff and Primary Care/GP staff based in our area; and all of Noclor's partner organisations. These include:
- Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL)
- East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT)
- Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
- North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT)
- Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- West London NHS Trust.
The sessions are delivered on MS Teams. To book on to any of them please email us at whl@nhs.net or call us on 020 7288 3580. In addition to these sessions, Noclor also offer online training sessions as advertised on their website's Training and Events page, and your local library team can provide information on their own sessions if you get in touch with them via the links above.
Noclor Programme: What the Library Can Do for Me - an Introduction to Library Services
In this introductory session you will find out how the Library can help your research interests, how it can help you deliver evidence based care, and how it can support your learning and development at work. The session covers using the Library space, joining and getting an NHS OpenAthens account, book and journal requests, the Library web site, KnowledgeShare (for regular subject alerts) and the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub.
- Monday 23rd March 2026, 11:30 - 12:00
- Wednesday 1st April, 9:30 - 10:00
- Friday 1st May 2026, 10:00 - 10:30
- Monday 1st June 2026, 11:30 - 12:00
- Monday 3rd August 2026, 11:30 - 12:00
- Tuesday 1st September 2026, 12:00 - 12:30
Noclor Programme: Finding the Evidence
Learn how to retrieve the research literature you are looking for by devising and executing a good search strategy using both keyword and subject heading searches. You will gain the skills to search the NHS Library and Knowledge Hub as well as primary research databases effectively by combining searches using AND/OR operators, refine your results using limits; and export, email, save your results.
- Friday 27th March 2026, 10:00-11:00
- Tuesday 7th April 2026, 10:00 - 11:00
- Tuesday 5th May 2026, 10:30 - 11:30
- Wednesday 3rd June 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
- Friday 3rd July 2026, 11:30 - 12:30
- Wednesday 5th August 2026, 12:00 - 13:00
- Thursday 3rd September 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
NEW! Noclor Programme - Types of Research
Within an hour you will be introduced to the different branches of research, and different research methodologies that are used in healthcare, with recent examples highlighted.
- Tuesday 28th April 2026, 13:30 - 14:30
- Friday 22nd May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
- Tuesday 23rd June 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
- Thursday 23rd July 2026, 10:00 - 11:00
- Tuesday 25th August 2026, 10:30 - 11:30
- Wednesday 23rd September 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Noclor Programme: Quick-fire Critical Appraisal of QUANTITATIVE Research
Introduces the main concepts involved in critical appraisal of quantitative research, and discusses features of research papers using selected questions from the appropriate CASP checklist. The session covers basic statistical concepts necessary for understanding results.
- Thursday 9th April 2026, 10:30 - 11:30
- Thursday 7th May 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
- Friday 5th June 2026, 11:30 - 12:30
- Tuesday 7th July 2026, 12:00 - 13:00
- Friday 7th August 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
- Monday 7th September 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Introduction to Critical Appraisal of Quantitative Research Workshops can also be arranged by appointment. In these 2-hour interactive sessions, attendees will use a CASP checklist to appraise a paper that they've read beforehand, with a librarian facilitating the discussion and introducing key concepts as they go. These sessions can be held in-person or online, at a time and place of your group's convenience. Contact the library to arrange a session.
Our colleagues at Noclor provide additional online training sessions in "Critical Appraisal". Please see their Training and Events page for dates and booking information.
Noclor Programme: Quick-fire Critical Appraisal of QUALITATIVE Research
Learn how to understand key elements in the successful and accurate appraisal of a paper, discuss the features of qualitative research and the key terminology associated with it, and understand how to use a CASP checklist to critically appraise a qualitative research article.
- Monday 13th April 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
- Monday 11th May 2026, 11:30 - 12:30
- Tuesday 9th June 2026, 12:00 - 13:00
- Thursday 9th July 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
- Tuesday 11th August 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
- Wednesday 9th September 2026, 13:30 - 14:30
Introduction to Critical Appraisal of Qualitative Research Workshops can also be arranged by appointment. In these 2-hour interactive sessions, attendees will use a CASP checklist to appraise a paper that they've read beforehand, with a librarian facilitating the discussion and introducing key concepts as they go. These sessions can be held in-person or online, at a time and place of your group's convenience. Contact the library to arrange a session.
Our colleagues at Noclor provide additional online training sessions in "Critical Appraisal". Please see their Training and Events page for dates and booking information.
Noclor Programme: Academic Writing
In this session, you will learn to define the key concepts of a paper, make evidence-based arguments, and present your viewpoints critically and logically in academic writing, with opportunities to practice your new skills.
- Friday 17th April 2026, 12:00 - 13:00
- Tuesday 12th May 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
- Monday 15th June 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
- Wednesday 15th July 2026, 13:30 - 14:30
- Monday 17th August 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
- Tuesday 15th September 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
Noclor Programme: Getting into Research
In this one hour introductory session you will learn how you can get started with a research project, and about the opportunities available to nurses and AHPs in the NHS nationally and locally.
- Wednesday 15th April 2026, 11:30 - 12:30
- Wednesday 13th May 2026, 12:00 - 13:00
- Thursday 11th June 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
- Monday 13th July 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
- Thursday 13th August 2026, 13:30 - 14:30
- Friday 11th September 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
NEW! Noclor Programme: Writing for Publication
Within an hour you will learn the basic requirements of writing for scientific or professional journals, including structure and style guidance, plus an understanding of the publishing process.
- Tuesday 31st March 13:30 - 14:30
- Thursday 23rd April 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
- Friday 29th May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
- Friday 19th June 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
- Tuesday 21st July 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
- Friday 21st August 2026, 10:00 - 11:00
- Monday 21st September 2026, 10:30 - 11:30
NEW! Noclor Programme: Creating Posters for conferences
In an hour you will learn what's expected of posters at conferences or other professional occasions; get ideas for presenting your work in a graphic form, and hints and tips for producing a print or digital poster.
- Wednesday 29th April 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
- Tuesday 26th May 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
- Thursday 25th June 2026, 10:00 - 11:00
- Monday 27th July 2026, 10:30 - 11:30
- Thursday 27th August 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
- Tuesday 29th September 2026, 11:30 - 12:30
Noclor Programme: Reference Management
In half an hour you will learn what reference management software is, what programmes are freely available, know how to create a bibliography in Refworks and cite references in your work using it.
- Wednesday 25th March 2026, 0:30 - 11:30
- Tuesday 21st April 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
- Wednesday 20th May 2026, 13:30 - 14:30
- Wednesday 17th June 2026, 13:30 - 14:30
- Friday 17th July 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
- Wednesday 19th August 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
- Thursday 17th September 2026, 10:00 - 11:00
Online training sessions available from e-Learning for Healthcare (efh):
elfh is NHS England’s online learning platform. You can access the 2 virtual courses below with your NHS OpenAthens username and password. Please contact the library if you need assistance.
How to Search the Literature Effectively
These modules are designed to help the healthcare workforce (clinical and non-clinical) build confidence to search published literature for articles and evidence relevant to their work, study and research. The modules are short (each taking no more than 20 minutes to complete) and may be ‘dipped into’ for reference, or completed to obtain a certificate.
This programme aims to support NHS colleagues with understanding the different methods and tools to carry out critical appraisal of research, through 8 bite-sized modules.
By the end of the programme, learners will be able to: describe the terms “critical appraisal”, “bias”, “internal validity” and “external validity”; distinguish between different types of study designs and their strengths and limitations; assess the appropriateness of methods used to conduct a randomised controlled trial, systematic review, diagnostic study and qualitative study; interpret commonly reported results found in clinical papers; and identify different types of critical appraisal tools and their strengths and limitations.
Journal Clubs
Noclor Journal Club
Join us in the library or online for our monthly Noclor Journal Club for Nurses and AHPs. In these sessions we'll go over an accessible, interesting paper (or something else...) as a group, discussing its strengths and weaknesses (maybe using a checklist) and what it could mean for your practice. Previous meetings have covered papers like "The role of dog therapy in clinical recovery and improving quality of life: a randomized, controlled trial" and "Zombie apocalypse simulation: elevating mental health nursing education". Call us on 020 7288 3580 or email us at whl@nhs.net to book your place on any of the sessions below.
Upcoming meetings:
- Tuesday 16/12/25, 11am-12.30pm. Paper we'll be reading: All I want for Christmas…is a precisely defined research question. Santa runs experiments with his reindeer to see which is better for their flying performance: a bunch of carrots or a mince pie? How will different estimands effect our view of the results?
- Tuesday 13/1/26, 3-4.30pm. As we may well be feeling the effects of the festive season and perhaps going on a health kick or taking part in "Dry January", we'll be reading Temporary abstinence challenges: What do we need to know?
- Wednesday 18/2/26, 2-3.30pm. Because we'll all be sick of the dark evenings, we'll be looking at the evidence behind them via The British Sleep Society position statement on Daylight Saving Time in the UK
- Friday 13/3/26, 2-3pm. In honour of Easter being just round the corner, we'll be reading A bite of dark chocolate? Black humour in mental health services
- Monday 27/4/26, 3-4.30pm. After Easter's excess, we'll be reading Patients’ experiences with GLP1-RAs – a systematic review, to see what exactly the evidence base says about Ozempic and other weight-loss drugs, and to examine this particular study's methodological rigour...
- Wednesday 27/5/26, 12-1.30pm. Paper TBA.
- Thursday 18/6/26, 10-11.30am. Paper TBA.
OT Journal Club
The monthly Occupational Therapy Journal Club meets in the library to talk about a recent research paper as selected by Occupational Therapy colleagues working across NLFT. If you would like to take part in these fun, discursive sessions then please contact the facilitator, Assistant Librarian Catherine Wardle: catherinewardle@nhs.net
Reflective Reading Club
Tailored to nurses approaching revalidation (but open to all), these sessions provide attendees with 3 hours of CPD for their portfolios. Please see our dedicated page for more information.
Last updated08 Apr 2026