Library and health promotion resources

• General enquiries: Library staff are here to help you with general enquiries, such as help finding books and information, checking references and finding statistics.
• Literature searching: If you require a literature search to support your work, library staff are here to help. We are happy to do the search for you (this service is for Trust staff).
• Books: We have approximately 8000 books on the shelves and access to a wide range of electronic books.
• Journals, interlibrary loan and document supply: We provide a number of print subscriptions and have access to approximately 1300 electronic journals.  If we don’t have a specific item we can order it for you from another library (this service is for Trust staff).
• Health promotion resources and campaigns: a wide range of borrowable resources are available to promote health, including teaching packs, models and displays. We also have leaflets and posters available to order and regular health awareness campaigns.
• Current awareness: We produce a wide range of current awareness bulletins and alerts to keep you up to date.  Please let us know your areas of interest and we will do the rest. (This service is for Trust staff).
• Databases: A full range of bibliographic databases are available, including Medline, CINAHL and PsycINFO.  We also provide access to BMJ Best Practice, which summaries the best evidence on over 3000 topics.
• Training: We offer group and individual training on a range of information skills, including literature searching and critical appraisal.
• Study space and IT: a suite of PCs is available for Trust staff.

Borrow health promotion resources

Our library has a unique collection of health promotion resources available to borrow to make your health education projects highly effective. We have a selection of models, teaching packs, games, charts and displays on a range of topics. These resources are specially designed for health promotion, education and engagement. Please click below on the twelve topic areas to see our resource highlights.

Eligibility

The resources can be borrowed from anyone who supports health and well-being in the Bradford and Airedale areas of West Yorkshire. This includes NHS staff, corporate health and well-being, teachers and educators, students, the voluntary sector, social care workers and more. If you are in doubt about your eligibility please contact the library using the details below.

How to borrow health promotion resources

To borrow resources, you’ll need to be a member of the Bradford NHS libraries, which we are part. You can become a member by completing a registration form in the library. Please bring some work or personal ID for this.

Once you are a registered you can borrow resources at your convenience. Books and teaching packs can be loaned for four weeks, but all other resources can only be loaned for the times that you require them for, ideally less than two weeks. This allows the resources to be used by more people. We recommend people place advanced bookings on the resources to ensure they are available for the dates they require them. Bookings can be made up to a year in advance. There is no limit on the number of resources you can loan at a time.

All resources must be borrowed and returned from the Library based at Lynfield Mount Hospital during our opening hours (see below).

Order leaflets and posters

Thank you for your interest in the health promotion leaflet and poster ordering service. Our service provides a free and convenient place to order reliable, up-to-date health information leaflets and posters, from a range of organisations including the British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research UK. Please click here to see our full list of available leaflets to order.

Eligibility

Our health promotion leaflets can be ordered free of charge by people who support health and well-being in the Bradford and Airedale areas of West Yorkshire. This includes NHS staff, corporate health and well-being, teachers and educators, students, the voluntary sector, social care workers and more. If you are in doubt about your eligibility please contact the library using the details below. This service is provided by the Library and Health Promotion Resources team for Bradford District Care Foundation Trust and based at Lynfield Mount Hospital.

How to order leaflets and posters

Leaflets and posters can be ordered online through this form, by contacting the library via email at library.lynfield@bdct.nhs.uk, or telephone at 01274 223900. Email and telephone requests must state the leaflets titles or topics required, the quantities needed and your contact details.

You can also order leaflets in the library itself and view a master copy of each of our available leaflets, but please note that you will need to return at a later date to collect your order as the leaflet stock is not kept onsite.

Collecting leaflet orders

We will notify you when the order is ready for collection from our library at Lynfield Mount Hospital. NHS staff can also request for their leaflets to be delivered to an NHS address in the area.  Leaflet orders can take up to ten working days to be completed. Larger orders may take longer. If your order is urgent please contact the library team directly to discuss.

The library is located in a building just to the right of the main reception at Lynfield Mount Hospital. The library is also shown on the large site map signs in the site car park. Access to the library is gained via a glass door, please press the buzzer on this door and bring a form of work or personal ID for security identification. Leaflets need to be collected during the library’s opening hours, from 09.00-17:00 Monday to Thursday, and 09.00-16:30 Friday. We are closed on the weekends and bank holidays. You are welcome to send a colleague to collect the leaflets on your behalf.

Requesting a literature search

If you require help in finding information we can undertake a literature search on your behalf. This usually involves us searching a range of online resources including databases such as Medine, CINAHL, Cochrane and BMJ Best Practice. We then provide you with a list of references which we hope will be helpful.  We are also happy to help you track down the full-text of articles following the search.

Request a search

Eligibility for search criteria

Due to staff time and licensing arrangements, we can only do literature searches for Trust staff. We also ask that these searches be for work purposes and not to support study and educational assignments. If you need help with searching to support studying we are happy to offer training.

Example search topics

Here are just a few of the recent topics that we have searched for:

• Eczema – emollients for under 5s
• Service user involvement in training staff and students in mental health
• Measures of psychological distress in acute mental health services
• Reflection skills and tools for nurses
• Schema therapy and psychosis

The library team offer group and individual training on a wide range of information skills.  Here are some of our main courses:

E2P: Evidence to practice training course – a practical introduction into the principles and delivery of evidence based practice

The course takes participants through the five stages of evidence based practice.  Participants are introduced to the theory of each stage and then given the opportunity to develop practical skills to use in the workplace.  Participants learn how to develop an “answerable question,” undertake a literature search, critically appraise a journal article and consider the practical skills needed to develop a project plan for research or evidence based practice.

Critical appraisal training

Library staff offer “a beginner’s guide to critical appraisal.” The course aims to give participants confidence in appraising a paper by developing key skills. This includes some basic statistics and understanding of values, confidence intervals and other research terminology.

1-1 training

Individual training on demand remains our most popular training.  We offer individual training on literature searching and other electronic resources at a time to suit you.  The training usually takes about an hour.  Although we usually do training in the library we can also travel to other Trust locations.  Please contact the library to make an appointment.

To further information and to check dates and availability  – please contact the library.  Please note that training is only available to Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust staff and students only.

This is our single search box that connects you to all the library’s resources. Just pop in some keywords and you will get back a range of full-text books, journal articles and other online resources. Log in with your Athens account to get the full benefit this resource.

The Library offers access to a range of databases. Most will require an NHS Athens account, which you can sign up for here. If you have forgotten your Athens password, just email library.lynfield@bdct.nhs.uk and we’ll reset it for you.