Noclor Programme Training
Working with Noclor, we are proud to offer the following training sessions to NLFT South (formerly Camden & Islington Trust) and NLFT North nursing and allied health professionals; plus Whittington Health and NCL ICS colleagues. The sessions are delivered on MS Teams.
To book on to any of these sessions please email us at whl@nhs.net or call us on 020 7288 3580.
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 16 June 11:30-12:00
- Friday 11 July 13:00-13:30
- Friday 1st august 10:30-11:00
- Friday 26th September 10:30-11:00
- Monday 27th October 09:30-10:00
- Tuesday 11th November 13:30-14:00
- Monday 1st December 10:00-10:30
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.
- Monday 9th June 11:30-12:30
- Tuesday 15th July 12:30-13:30
- Thursday 21st August 09:30-10:30
- Thursday 18th September 11:30-12:30
- Thursday 2nd October 11:00-12:00
- Wednesday 5th November 12:30-13:30
- Tuesday 9th December 13:30-14:30
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 5th June 11:00-12:00
- Wednesday 2nd July 12:00-13:00
- Wednesday 27th August 12:00-13:00
- Tuesday 30th September 13:00-14:00
- Wednesday 1st October 14:00-15:00
- Friday 14th November 09:30-10:30
- Friday 5th December 10:30-11:30
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.
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.
- Wednesday 25th June 14:30-15:30
- Wednesday 23rd July 09:30-10:30
- Friday 29th August 12:30-13:00
- Wednesday 3rd September 13:30-14:30
- Friday 31st October 11:30-12:30
- Monday 17th November 11:00-12:00
- Wednesday 10th December 13:00-14:00
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.
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.
- Monday 2nd June 13:30-14:30
- Monday 28th July 14:00-15:00
- Thursday 14th August 12:30-13:30
- Monday 22nd September 13:30-14:30
- Tuesday 28th October 11:00-12:00
- Wednesday 19th November 12:00-13:00
- Friday 12th December 13:00-14:00
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.
- Friday 13th June 15:00-16:00
- Thursday 3rd July 11:30-12:30
- Wednesday 6th August 09:30-10:30
- Thursday 11th September 10:30-11:30
- Tuesday 21st October 10:00-11:00
- Tuesday 25th November 09:30-10:30
- Monday 15th December 10:30-11:30
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.
- Tuesday 24th June 14:30-15:00
- Monday 21st July 15:30-16:00
- Monday 18th August 09:30-10:30
- Tuesday 23rd September 10:20-11-30
- Wednesday 29th October 10:00-11:00
- Thursday 6th November 09:30-10:30
- Wednesday 17th December 10:30-11:30
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 bi-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 checklists) and what it could mean for your practice. At our first meeting we covered "The role of dog therapy in clinical recovery and improving quality of life: a randomized, controlled trial".
Upcoming meetings:
Thursday 19/6/25, 10am-11am, in-person in Whittington Health Library and online via Teams
As the good weather's here we're covering this blog from The Mental Elf: "Can green space help protect us from self-harm and suicide?"
OT Journal Club
As the good weather's here we're covering this blog from The Mental Elf: "Can green space help protect us from self-harm and suicide?"
OT Journal Club
This quarterly OT 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 updated11 Jun 2025