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; 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, now including former Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust staff
- West London NHS Trust.
As part of our Noclor Programme, we will be hosting a special one-off webinar:
How to Get Published in The Lancet!
Want to get your work and ideas published but have no idea how? Worried that's an unattainable dream, even?
Join Whittington Health Library online on Thursday 3/12/26, 1pm-2pm, when The Lancet's Senior Executive Editor Dr Niall Boyce will tell you how to begin writing for publication, and how you could appear in the one of the most well-established and prestigious healthcare journals in the world! Niall will cover...
To book your place, please contact the Whittington Health Library Team on whl@nhs.net, or 020 7288 3580. This session will be particularly useful for healthcare students of all kinds and new professionals, but everyone is very welcome to attend!
How to Get Published in The Lancet!
Want to get your work and ideas published but have no idea how? Worried that's an unattainable dream, even?
Join Whittington Health Library online on Thursday 3/12/26, 1pm-2pm, when The Lancet's Senior Executive Editor Dr Niall Boyce will tell you how to begin writing for publication, and how you could appear in the one of the most well-established and prestigious healthcare journals in the world! Niall will cover...
- Getting started: expressing your opinions in Comments and correspondence
- The Lancet's new Clinical Rounds section for case studies
- Publishing original research in The Lancet
- The Wakley Essay Prize for clinicians
- The Lancet Pulse podcast
- The 30+ Lancet Journals that are out there for you
- How YOU can help shape The Lancet's content and direction!
The sessions below 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.
- Thursday 15th October 2026, 14:00 - 14:30
- Thursday 26th November 2026, 11:30 - 12:00
- Friday 11th December 2026, 13:00 - 13:30
- Tuesday 5th January 2027, 14:30 - 15:00
- Monday 1st February 2027, 10:30 - 11:00
- Wednesday 17th March 2027, 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.
- Thursday 8th October 2026, 10:00 - 11:00
- Thursday 5th November 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
- Wednesday 2nd December 2026, 12:00 - 13:00
- Friday 29th January 2027, 13:00 - 14:00
- Tuesday 16th February 2027, 14:00 - 15:00
- Thursday 4th March 2027, 10:30 - 11:30
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.
- Wednesday 23rd September 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
- Monday 26th October 2026, 10:30 - 11:30
- Thursday 19th November 2026, 11:30 - 12:30
- Tuesday 22nd December 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
- Monday 11th January 2027, 13:30 - 14:30
- Friday 26th February 2027, 10:00 - 11:00
- Tuesday 23rd March 2027, 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.
- Friday 9th October 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
- Thursday 12th November 2026, 12:00 - 13:00
- Tuesday 15th December 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
- Monday 25th January 2027, 14:00 - 15:00
- Wednesday 10th February 2027, 10:30 - 11:30
- Friday 19th March 2027, 11:30 - 12:30
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.
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 5th October 2026, 11:30 - 12:30
- Tuesday 3rd November 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
- Monday 7th December 2026, 13:30 - 14:30
- Friday 22nd January 2027, 10:00 - 11:00
- Wednesday 24th February 2027, 11:00 - 12:00
- Thursday 11th March 2027, 12:00 - 13:00
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.
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 30th October 2026, 12:00 - 13:00
- Tuesday 24th November 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
- Wednesday 16th December 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
- Monday 18th January 2027, 10:30 - 11:30
- Wednesday 3rd February 2027, 11:30 - 12:30
- Tuesday 2nd March 2027, 12:30 - 13:30
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.
- Thursday 1st October 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
- Tuesday 10th November 2026, 13:30 - 14:30
- Monday 21st December 2026, 10:00 - 11:00
- Wednesday 27th January 2027, 11:00 - 12:00
- Friday 12th February 2027, 12:00 - 13:00
- Monday 8th March 2027, 13:00 - 14:00
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 13th October 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
- Monday 30th November 2026, 10:00 - 11:00
- Thursday 10th December 2026, 10:30 - 11:30
- Wednesday 20th January 2027, 11:30 - 12:30
- Monday 22nd February 2027, 12:30 - 13:30
- Thursday 25th March 2027, 13:30 - 14:30
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.
- Tuesday 29th September 2026, 11:30 - 12:30
- Monday 19th October 2026, 13:30 - 14:30
- Friday 27th November 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
- Friday 18th December 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
- Thursday 14th January 2027, 12:00 - 13:00
- Friday 19th February 2027, 13:00 - 14:00
- Monday 15th March 2027, 14:00 - 15:00
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 web-based reference management programme Endnote Fusion, and cite references in your work using it.
- Friday 23rd October 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
- Tuesday 17th November 2026, 10:30 - 11:30
- Friday 4th December 2026, 11:30 - 12:30
- Thursday 7th January 2027, 12:30 - 13:30
- Monday 8th February 2027, 13:30 - 14:30
- Wednesday 31st March 2027, 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. 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:
- Monday 16/11/26, 10-11am. As the nights draw-in and the weather takes a turn for the worse, we'll be covering the effect it has on service users with schizophrenia, and appraising the strengths and weaknesses of this freely-available cross-sectional study: "From weather to symptoms: Preliminary links between weather and inflammation in schizophrenia".
- Tuesday 8/12/26, 2-3pm. For this special Christmas meeting of the journal club, we'll be making a list and checking it twice as we critique "Children’s belief in Santa Claus and Moral behavior: A two-wave longitudinal study of children’s prosocial behavior during Christmas".
- Thursday 28/1/27, 2-3pm. With Britain in the grip of Veganuary, we'll consider what we can learn from a paper on the "Association of mainly vegetarian and vegan diets with loneliness, social isolation and social withdrawal in a German population survey".
- Wednesday 17/2/27, 11am-12pm. Paper: in the wake of Valentine's Day we'll be looking at two studies in one paper: "Love, longing and obsession: Features, correlates, comorbidities, and real-time cognitive-affective dynamics of limerence".
- Tuesday 30/3/27, 10-11am. Madder than a March Hare? In this meeting of the journal club, we're adopting a literary approach as we learn of the Arts' impact on psychiatry with "Eponymous psychiatric syndromes inspired by literature: from Alice in Wonderland to The Picture of Dorian Gray (I)".
Past meetings:
- Wednesday 21/10/26, 2-3.30pm. In honour of Black History Month, we covered ‘Why I no longer get excited about Black History Month in the NHS’, an opinion piece from last year's Nursing Times that sparked reflection, debate, and actions!
- Wednesday 27/5/26, 12-1.30pm. With a controversial World Cup just around the corner, we looked at what football could do instead of lining Gianni Infantino and friends' pockets, with the freely available paper Mental health promotion through soccer in high-risk communities: a narrative review.
- Thursday 18/6/26, 10-11.30am. In the throes of a heatwave, we covered "Heatwaves End—Heat Exposure Does Not", a short (2-page!) thought-provoking editorial on the hidden mental and physical toll of extreme heat...
- Friday 24/7/26, 2-3.30pm. Something a bit different this meeting, with the French national holiday Bastille Day having just been celebrated: An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology, freely available online from Nature.com, and with an accompanying podcast episode
- Monday 24/8/26, 12-1.30pm. With special guest host Catherine Wardle, our resident health literacy specialist, we looked at a paper that was a smash-hit at a meeting of our Reflective Reading Club, Discussing Sexual Health During Diabetes Care, a Survey of UK Women—My Diabetes Nurse “Would Fall off Her Chair If I Mentioned It”. It's got quantitative and qualitative aspects, and is a very accessible read!
- Tuesday 29/9/26, 10-11.30am. The kids are going back to school... but are the kids alright? We discussed a paper with a local setting: “I think it is our responsibility, but not solely our responsibility”: A qualitative study exploring teachers’ perspectives on promoting mental health in Northwest London primary schools
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 updated29 Oct 2026