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Friday 30 June 2017

Health Information Week 2017


In England, 42% of working-age adults (aged 16-65) are unable to understand or make use of everyday health information.(1)

Your Library & Knowledge Service can:
  • direct you to a sizeable collection of books designed to explain conditions and diseases to patients
  • help you to access resources like UpToDate and DynaMed Plus which provide evidence-based patient information
  • give you expert support to search for high quality information
We can help you improve health literacy of the Wirral community
Visit the Library & Knowledge Service today!

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(1) Rowlands, G., Protheroe, J., Richardson, M., Seed, P., Winkley, J. and Rudd, R. (2015) The health information gap: the mismatch between population health literacy and the complexity of health information; an observational study. British Journal of General Practice 65 e379-386

Monday 5 June 2017

WUTH publication: Focused acute medicine ultrasound (FAMUS): curriculum outline of a new ultrasound standard for acute internal medicine

Citation: Clinical Medicine (London, England). 2017, 17(Sup3), S24
Author: Smallwood N, Dachsel M, Gilmore A

Link to PubMed record