Noclor Programme Training
Working with Noclor, we are proud to offer the following training sessions to nursing and allied health professionals at Whittington Health, North Central London ICB and Primary Care, and all of Noclor's partner organisations. These include Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH), 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, and 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 & 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.
- Friday 26th September 2025, 10:30-11:00
- Monday 27th October 2025, 09:30-10:00
- Tuesday 11th November 2025, 13:30-14:00
- Monday 1st December 2025, 10:00-10:30
- Tuesday 27th January 2026, 9:30 - 10:00
- Thursday 12th February 2026, 10:30 - 11:00
- Monday 23rd March 2026, 11:30 - 12:00
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 2nd October 2025, 11:00-12:00
- Wednesday 5th November 2025, 12:30-13:30
- Tuesday 9th December 2025, 13:30-14:30
- Thursday 29th January 2026, 10:00-11:00
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.
- Tuesday 30th September 2025, 13:00-14:00
- Wednesday 1st October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Friday 14th November 2025, 09:30-10:30
- Friday 5th December 2025, 10:30-11:30
- Thursday 26th February 2026, 12:00-13:00
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 & 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.
- Friday 31st October 2025, 11:30-12:30
- Monday 17th November 2025, 11:00-12:00
- Wednesday 10th December 2025, 13:00-14:00
- Wednesday 4th March 2026, 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.
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.
- Tuesday 28th October 2025, 11:00-12:00
- Wednesday 19th November 2025, 12:00-13:00
- Friday 12th December 2025, 13:00-14:00
- Wednesday 14th January 2026, 13:00-14:00
- Thursday 19th February 2026, 11:30-12:30
- Friday 20th March 2026, 11:00-12:00
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.
- Tuesday 21st October 2025, 10:00-11:00
- Tuesday 25th November 2025, 09:30-10:30
- Monday 15th December 2025, 10:30-11:30
- Monday 26th January 2026, 12:30-13:30
- Wednesday 11th February 2026. 14:00-15:00
- Monday 12th March 2026, 9:30-10:30
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 29th October 2025, 10:00-11:00
- Thursday 6th November 2025, 09:30-10:30
- Wednesday 17th December 2025, 10:30-11:30
- Thursday 8th January 2026, 14:00-15:00
- Friday 27th February 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
- Wednesday 25th March 2026, 0:30 - 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 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:
Monday 17/11/25, 2-3pm. Paper we'll be reading: The quality and reliability of short videos about hypertension on TikTok: a cross-sectional study
Tuesday 16/12/25, 11am-12.30pm. Paper we'll be reading: TBA
Tuesday 13/1/26, 3-4.30pm. Paper we'll be reading: TBA
Wednesday 18/2/26, 2-3.30pm. Paper we'll be reading: TBA
Friday 13/3/26, 2-3pm. Paper we'll be reading: TBA
Tuesday 16/12/25, 11am-12.30pm. Paper we'll be reading: TBA
Tuesday 13/1/26, 3-4.30pm. Paper we'll be reading: TBA
Wednesday 18/2/26, 2-3.30pm. Paper we'll be reading: TBA
Friday 13/3/26, 2-3pm. Paper we'll be reading: TBA
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 updated13 Oct 2025