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Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust Library Service retweeted
15 June 1860. British nurse Florence Nightingale (“The Lady with The Lamp”) opened a school for training nurses at St Thomas’s Hospital in London. It was the 1st professional nursing school in the world. The nursing school is now part of King’s College, London.
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We didn't put anything out for #WorldBookNight, not because we didn't want to, but because we want every night to be World Book Night...so, when we go live on @instagram, we'll show you a thing or several...
Coming 5 May
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BBC News - Should you really trust health advice from an AI chatbot?
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clye…
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BBC News - Bird flu vaccine trial against potential pandemic strain begins
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy41…
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Big news!! We've joined @instagram!! You'll see us there from 5 May onwards, with all of the usual news from the library service, plus the other stuff we hope you've come to enjoy. We've got the same handle of chelwestlibs so why not give us a follow...
instagram.com/chelwestlibs/
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BBC News - Period blood test could offer less invasive alternative to cervical screening
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly9…
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New vaccines, new hope: First human trial for Ebola, Marburg and Lassa vaccines
imperial.ac.uk/news/articles…
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Atticus from @PetsAsTherapyUK is proving a popular addition to the @ChelwestFT library team today - he'll be here until 2.00pm
But you can join the library too if you road to mindfulness and wellbeing runs more to reading. Go to imperial.ac.uk/library/dynam… for our registration form
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Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust Library Service retweeted
Atticus the therapy dog will be visiting the @Chelwestlibs team TOMORROW!
📍 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Medical Library (Lower Ground Floor)
📅 Wednesday 14th January 2026
🕐 12pm - 2pm
Drop in to make a new furry friend!🐕🦺Ideal for fighting any January blues! ✨
ALT A pale green poster with dark green and black text, and a clip art style image of a St Bernard dog. The poster invites users to attend an event to meet a therapy dog at the Medical Library. Full details of the event are included in the main tweet.
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Don't forget that we have training sessions coming up run by other of our libraries - but, you can attend any session no matter which site you are based at...
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You can take a look at the sessions run by our @ChelwestFT library by going to sway.cloud.microsoft/4uGcKgY…; you can also contact us at librarycw@imperial.ac.uk if you'd like to know more
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The sessions run by our @WestMidHospital library are available at sway.cloud.microsoft/ht8v27H…; you can get in touch with us for more at chelwest.library.infoservice@nhs.net
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The library at @ChelwestFT invites you to meet Atticus the therapy dog next week!
📍 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Medical Library (Lower Ground Floor)
📅 Wednesday 14 January 2026
🕐 12pm - 2pm
Drop in to make a new furry friend!🐕🦺Ideal for fighting any January blues! ✨
ALT A pale green poster with dark green and black text, and a clipart style image of a St Bernard dog. The poster invites users to attend an event to meet a therapy dog at the Medical Library. Full details are included in the main tweet.
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Over the Christmas period, our library at @WestMidHospital will be unstaffed between Thursday 25 December and Thursday 1 January. Library users will be able to use the library space and PCs during this time. We'll be back from Friday 2 January 2026
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After today, the library at @ChelwestFT will be unstaffed for the Christmas period. Library users can continue to use the library space and PCs, as well as borrow books using the self-issue machine, during the period we are unstaffed. We'll be back on Monday 5 January 2026
ALT A cartoon reindeer with a red nose, wearing shades and a red and white striped scarf, leaning back looking very chill
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Apparently, it's the most wonderful time of the year. So, to commemorate this, we've put together a collection of wintery and festive reading in @LibbyApp - go to libbyapp.com/library/imperia… to see what's on offer
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Remember, if you work at @ChelwestFT or @WestMidHospital, you can access @LibbyApp using your NHS OpenAthens account. If you've not set one up, you can go to openathens.nice.org.uk/ and fill in the self-registration form
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We're coming towards the end of this year's #strictly - but you can reminisce about series past with our book collection courtesy of Strictly alumni on @LibbyApp - go to libbyapp.com/library/imperia… to see what we've got
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And if you haven't yet used @LibbyApp, it's dead easy - go to imperial.ac.uk/admin-service… to find out what you need to do...
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Our library @ChelwestFT are running loads of sessions starting from the end of January, which are all run virtually - if you want to attend wearing the fluffy unicorn slippers you got for Christmas, no one will be the wiser
Find out what's running when at sway.cloud.microsoft/4uGcKgY…
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