Whittington Health Library
Whittington Health Library offers a comprehensive and modern library service to NHS staff from Whittington Health. Services are also provided for North London Foundation Trust, West and North London ICB staff (including primary care and GP staff), plus UCL and Middlesex University students working at Whittington Health. Please see our Membership page for full details.
As part of our Noclor Programme, we will be hosting a special one-off webinar:
How to Get Published in The Lancet!
Want to get your work and ideas published but have no idea how? Worried that's an unattainable dream, even?
Join Whittington Health Library online on Thursday 3/12/26, 1pm-2pm, when The Lancet's Senior Executive Editor Dr Niall Boyce will tell you how to begin writing for publication, and how you could appear in the one of the most well-established and prestigious healthcare journals in the world! Niall will cover...
To book your place, please contact the Whittington Health Library Team on whl@nhs.net, or 020 7288 3580. This session will be particularly useful for healthcare students of all kinds and new professionals, but everyone is very welcome to attend!
How to Get Published in The Lancet!
Want to get your work and ideas published but have no idea how? Worried that's an unattainable dream, even?
Join Whittington Health Library online on Thursday 3/12/26, 1pm-2pm, when The Lancet's Senior Executive Editor Dr Niall Boyce will tell you how to begin writing for publication, and how you could appear in the one of the most well-established and prestigious healthcare journals in the world! Niall will cover...
- Getting started: expressing your opinions in Comments and correspondence
- The Lancet's new Clinical Rounds section for case studies
- Publishing original research in The Lancet
- The Wakley Essay Prize for clinicians
- The Lancet Pulse podcast
- The 30+ Lancet Journals that are out there for you
- How YOU can help shape The Lancet's content and direction!
How to find us
The library is based in the Highgate Wing of the hospital on Dartmouth Park Hill.
Whittington Health Library
Whittington Hospital
Highgate Wing - Level 1
Dartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5JG
Whittington Hospital
Highgate Wing - Level 1
Dartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5JG
020 7288 3580
whl@nhs.net
whl@nhs.net
Regular Opening Hours
Following feedback in our recent library survey, we have extended opening hours, and are now open and staffed:
- Monday - Thursday 9am to 8pm
- Friday 9am to 6pm
- Closed Weekends and Bank Holidays
Please note: the entrance to the Highgate Wing building automatically locks from the outside at 5pm. If you wish to use the library after 5pm on Monday-Thursday and you do not have an active Whittington Health staff ID badge or a university placement card issued by the Trust, if you are unable to open the door, call us on 020 7288 3580, and we will come and let you in.
Last updated30 Oct 2026