Evaluations | Health Information Week Local evaluations from Health Information Week.

Today is the last day of Health Information Week 2025. Wonderful to see the range of cross-sector activities as part of this partnership. Search for #hiw2025 to find activity from this year and follow the link for evaluations from previous years

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Empowering Health Literacy: Unveiling the Impact of Health Information Week Here is a health and wellbeing blog by carer champion Matthew McKenzie. On this blog post, we can explore the significance of Health Information Week in providing reliable health information, empow…

My blog post and video in support of Health Information Week. @kls-sft.bsky.social @pifonline.bsky.social @sophierandall.bsky.social @rcnlibraries.bsky.social @ruthcarlyle.bsky.social @kingsfundlibrary.bsky.social

#HIW2025 #HealthLiteracy #misinformation

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Do you work in health and social care information? It's Health Information Week - mark it by joining #CILIP's Health Libraries Group @ciliphlg.bsky.social our network of individuals working in or professionally interested in health and social care. #HIW2025 www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou...

On the left is text: EBSCO, CINAHL Ultimate, Amabile throh your library with a picture of a PC. TO the right is a photo of two nursing students holding a stretcher outside an ambulance with another person holding a clipboard.

Studying nursing or an allied health profession?

As it's Health Information Week we wanted to highlight CINAHL Ultimate, a full-text database featuring clinical research content and more. Available through Your Library at: llr.ntu.ac.uk/dbaz/dbDetai...

#HIW2025 #HeartOfYourStudies

Network graphic on a white and yellow background. Introduction to AI - find out more about AI, the benefits & risks, and how to spot AI content

Interested in AI?

We run sessions so you can find out more about AI and what it means for healthcare

Our next online session is on Tues 18th Feb at 12pm, get in touch to book

#HIW2025

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Today's theme for Health Information Week 2025 is digital literacy. Whether you're starting out with computer skills, or you confidently navigate the digital world, it's useful to sharpen your digital literacy.

Check out these RCN Library resources to get started: https://buff.ly/3WvMTdb

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NHS England has created a step-by-step guide to help people understand how the NHS app works #HIW2025
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That's a wrap on Health Information Week! The final topic is Digital Literacy, head to the comments now for a curated selection of relevant resources to get you in the know📱

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It's day five of #HIW2025! Today we highlight #digitalliteracy to stay informed, avoid online threats and evaluate information successfully. Scan the QR codes to find out more. #NHS #NHSLibraries #Misinformation #criticalthinking

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world This free course, Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world, will develop your confidence and skills for life online, whether study, work or everyday life. It explores a range of digital skills...

www.open.edu/openlearn/mo... free course from the OU #HIW2025 #digitalliteracy

Understanding health literacy: empowering communities with reliable health knowledge Health literacy is a crucial aspect of public health that significantly impacts individuals' ability to make informed decisions about their health and well-being. It encompasses the skills and knowled...

Great to see our #KnowledgeIsPower report featured on the @local.gov.uk website during #HIW2025.

Local councils have a huge role to play in helping to raise awareness of the importance of #HealthLiteracy.

Read the article here: www.local.gov.uk/topics/socia...

The Complete Guide to Digital Skills - FutureLearn Learn how upskilling yourself in key in-demand digital skills can level-up your CV, and reboot your prospects in a competitive jobs market.

The complete guide to digital skills #HIW2025

An image of a woman sat at a desk, smiling at a computer tablet. There is a pink banner across the bottom of the image with the information 'Health Information Week #HIW 2025', as well as the date 24th January and the theme of the day, 'Digital Literacy'. There is an NHS logo in the top right corner and a HIW logo in the bottom right.

The final theme for Health Information Week is Digital Literacy! Have a look at the link below for some useful resources, and keep following for further info:
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NHS England » 1,400 libraries now offering people support to use NHS App The NHS is now offering the public support in how to access online health services including the NHS App at 1,400 libraries across England. More than two in five public library services (64 out of 151) in England have already signed up to offer the service with several more expected to join in the coming […]

Did you know you can access your #NHS account online at your local #library?

Over 1400 libraries in England are offering people support to access online health services #HIW2025

The theme for Health Information Week on 24th January is Digital Literacy. Picture shows a person looking at informaiton on an tablet

We've also search our library database to see what we hold on the subject of #DigitalLiteracy you can browse the results here #HIW2025
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Can AI Help Put People At The Centre Of Their Care? | The King's Fund Pritesh Mistry explores the potential for AI to transform health literacy with personalised health information.

The final theme for #HIW2025 is digital literacy. We thought we'd re-share this blog from @mustbemistry.bsky.social which explores the potential benefits of being able to access online health information www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Today is the final day of #HIW2025. The theme of today is 'Digital Literacy'. The complete guide to digital skills put together by FutureLearn introduces what digital skills are and why they are so important in todays world: https://buff.ly/4hs2rqm

Are you interested in AI but not sure what it is or how you can use it? Come to our Introduction to AI course & find out how we use AI in health and explore some of the AI tools that help us at work. We're always happy to arrange a time and date for training to suit you - just get in touch. #HIW2025

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Day 5 of #HIW2025 and digital literacy is the theme for today. The BBC WebWise series is a great series of very short videos (most are less than one minute) introducing the internet, email, mobile phones and online safety. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Health and Digital Literacy Partnership The Health and Digital Literacy Partnership supports citizens to develop the skills that they will need to access, assess and use health information in an increasingly digital environment.

In England, 43% of adults struggle with health information in words, rising to 61% with numbers. The Health & Digital Literacy Partnership helps citizens build skills to access health information. #CILIP #HIW2025 www.cilip.org.uk/page/health-...

SIFT - stop. Investigate the source. Find better coverage. Trace claims, quotes and media to the original context.

The final theme of Health Information Week #HIW2025 is Digital Literacy

Digital literacy includes being able to use digital technologies to find and use information

When you see information online, try using SIFT to sort fact from fiction
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Thanks for sharing Laura, great support from colleagues @penninecarenhs.bsky.social for #HIW2025. Knowledge Specialist, Stephen Edwards sharing health literacy tools with Research Nurse, Samuel Ndoro. Thank you to all staff who stopped by in this busy Patient Flow week @simonkaye.bsky.social

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Purpose: Be wary of bias and sponsored content. Aim for object and impartial sources #HIW2025

Graphic with text: Accuracy: Facts matter! Check for credible references and peer-reviewed sources

Accuracy: Facts matter! Check for credible references and peer-reviewed sources #HIW2025

Graphic with text: Relevance: Does the info meet your needs, answer your questions and fit your context?

Relevance: Does the info meet your needs, answer your questions and fit your context? #HIW2025

Day four of #HIW2025 highlights the importance of #healthliteracy to empower patients, keeping them safe and well informed. Take a look at some of our recommended sites. #NHSLibraries #NHS #Misinformation

Decorative graphic. Text reads Currency ensure the info you're reading is current. Check publication dates.

Currency: ensure the info you're reading is up to date, check the publication date. #HIW2025

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The CRAAP test can help you evaluate information. Scroll down to read all the tests, and read a full length article by our Librarian Alan in the British Journal of Healthcare Assistants: https://buff.ly/4jpgtuA

#HIW2025 #HealthInformationWeek #InformationLiteracy

Health literacy: how can we improve health information? What happens when health information is not clear? Discover what research can tell us and how we can help people understand.

Feeling inspired to learn more about #HealthLiteracy and how we can improve #HealthInformation?

@nihr.bsky.social has a fantastic evidence collection on this topic, including an endorsement from PIF director @sophierandall.bsky.social: evidence.nihr.ac.uk/collection/h...

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The 4th day of Health Information Week #HIW2025 brings us the themes of ‘health literacy’ and misinformation. Do you think you’d be able to recognise misinformation when experiencing it? Test yourself and learn how to spot it with this engaging quiz pack create.kahoot.it/details/83d8...