Journal Clubs
The library faciliates a number of journal clubs to help staff stay up to date on current research and practice their critical appraisal skills. We can help you choose an article, send a copy to everyone who signs up and then attend to facilitate the discussion.
Alternatively, we can provide guidance on setting up a journal club. This might include helping you pick articles and checklists or attending the first session to give refresher training on critical appraisal.
If you are interested in setting up a journal club please get in touch on whl@nhs.net.
"Journal club for our service is now up and running. The support from the library gave us a great place to start" - Library Survey 2025
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:
- Wednesday 21/10/26, 2-3.30pm. In honour of Black History Month, we'll be covering ‘Why I no longer get excited about Black History Month in the NHS’, an opinion piece from last year's Nursing Times that promises to spark debate!
- Monday 16/11/26, 10-11am. Paper: TBC.
- Tuesday 8/12/26, 2-3pm. Paper: TBC.
- Thursday 28/1/27, 2-3pm. Paper: TBC.
- Wednesday 17/2/27, 11am-12pm. Paper: TBC.
- Tuesday 30/3/27, 10-11am. Paper: TBC.
Past meetings:
- 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
Last updated29 Sep 2026