Our librarians are happy to perform literature searches on your behalf. You can use this service to find answers to unusual or complex clinical and administrative questions, or establish and evidence base for a potential change in your practice.
We cannot perform a literature search for you that will form part of assessed academic work but we would be happy to offer advice and training.
Several databases will be searched to provide good quality evidence-based information to support research, guideline and care pathway development, audit or policy. The results of a search will be a list of bibliographic references that will be emailed to you.
This service is available for members of staff at Whittington Health, plus West and North London ICB staff (including GP staff and primary care staff).
This service is not available to undergraduate students, however we would be happy to provide guidance.
PLEASE NOTE - we ask that you allow at least 5 working days for our librarians to complete a search and return your results.
Disclaimer
Whilst care has been taken in the selection of the materials included in this evidence search, the Library Service is not responsible for the content, accuracy or comprehensiveness of the enclosed research information. You must not use the results of this search for commercial purposes. Any usage or reproduction of the search output should acknowledge the Library Service that produced it.
e-Learning for Healthcare
If you would like to brush up your literature searching skills there is a Literature Searching module available to NHS library members that is provided by e-Learning for Healthcare. You’ll need to create an account to access the module. Alternatively, library staff would be happy to help and can organise a 1-2-1 with you. Please email whl@nhs.net to arrange an appointment.
