Resources

You can find and reserve print books, and access ebooks, using the London Health Libraries online catalogue, Koha. This is shared by St Ann’s Hospital Library, Whittington Health Library, and the libraries of 15 other NHS Trusts from across London, giving you access to their collections. For ebooks, you will need your NHS OpenAthens username and password to access their content. To borrow print books you will need to join St Ann’s Hospital Library (for NLFT staff) or Whittington Health Library (for Whittington Health, NCL primary care staff).
Click here to browse through all the books and ebooks on research available to on Koha

To see all the ejournals available to you, go to the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub, sign-in with your NHS OpenAthens account and click the "browse Journals" link in blue bar at top of page to access Browzine…

 

Or click on the journal titles in the sections below to browse through ejournals in your profession/specialty.

The Allied and Complementary Medicine Database (AMED) is a bibliographic database covering a selection of journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, and several professions allied to medicine.
Coverage: 1985 to present

Access: with your NHS OpenAthens account from The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub

 

Access: with your NHS OpenAthens account from The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub 

CINAHL - Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature

Access: with your NHS OpenAthens account from The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub

 

EMCARE covers all nursing specialties and nursing healthcare professions. Includes international coverage of allied health, education and training, development and management, midwifery, health and healthcare economics, clinical medical and healthcare social work, psychiatry and mental health, and traumatology, emergency and critical-care medicine.
Access: with your NHS OpenAthens account from The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub

 

 

 

 

BMJ Best Practice is freely available to ALL NHS staff via The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub or at the BMJ Best Practice website. Is it also available as an app.

Dynamed is available to NLFT staff (ask St Ann's Hospital Library staff for more info: nlft.library@nhs.net/ 020 8702 3785).

UpToDate is available to Whittington Health staff (ask Whittington Health Library staff for more info).

Whittington Health Library has a limited number of codes for BMJ's revision resource, OnExamination. This online tool gives provides question banks to help you  prepare for exams, and it can also be downloaded as an app for learning offline. Our codes will grant access for 2 months from the date of activation, but they must be activated before 23 October 2024.

 

Exams covered include:
DCH, DRCOG, ESEGH, ESENEPH, FFICM Intensive Care Medicine, First FRCR Physics, FRCA Final, FRCA Primary, FRCS General Surgery, FRCS Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery, GP ST Stage 2 MSRA, MRCEM Primary SBA, MRCGP (AKT), MRCOG Part 1, MRCOG Part 2, MRCP Part 1, MRCP Part 2 Written, MRCPCH: AKP, MRCPCH: FOP, MRCPCH: FOP/TAS, MRCPCH: TAS, MRCPsych Paper A, MRCPsych Paper B, MRCS Part A 1 & 2, SCE in Acute Medicine, SCE in Endocrinology & Diabetes, SCE in Geriatric Medicine, SCE in Respiratory Medicine.

 

Please contact Whittington Health Library at whl@nhs.net, or on 020 7288 3580, to request an access code.