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The Library at Whiston offers services and resources to staff and students working in primary care in the Halton, Knowsley or St Helens areas.
Our services include literature searching, library training in how to access and use resources, a current awareness service and document supply. You also have access to the resources below.
To use the online resources you will need an NHS OpenAthens ID and password.
Register for an NHS OpenAthens account
Please select Primary Care and ICB Staff in Halton, Knowsley and St Helens as your organisation. If you require any training or support to use these resources please go to the LKS Training page of our website.
Resources for Searching
- NHS Knowledge and Library Hub
Healthcare evidence and knowledge is now a simple search away. Use the Hub to find journals, full-text articles, e-books, trusted decision-making tools NICE pathways, guidelines and clinical databases.
- Databases
You have access to a number of databases including Medline, Embase and Cinahl for more advanced searching.
- Pubmed
Produced by the US National Library of medicine, PubMed comprises over 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Using this link https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?otool=igbhksthlib provides easier access to full-text articles.
Clinical Decision Support Resources
- BMJ Best Practice
BMJ Best Practice provides step by step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention on over 30 specialties. Login using your NHS OpenAthens account and then create a free personal account which will give you to access BMJ Best Practice anywhere. Download the app and track your CME/CPD activity.
- Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS)
Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) are produced by NICE and provide primary care practitioners with a readily accessible summary of the current evidence base and practical guidance on best practice in respect of over 330 common and/or significant primary care presentations.
Books and E-Books
You can search the catalogue online to look for both print and e-books.
- Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry
Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry is the essential evidence-based prescribing guidelines on the safe and effective prescribing of psychotropic agents. Each clear and concise chapter includes an up-to-date reference list providing easy access to the evidence on which the guidance is based.
- Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures
The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures provides users with the latest evidence-based clinical skills and processes to deliver exceptional patient care. It includes over 350 procedures, including illustrations and videos and can be accessed from any device. - Mind the Gap
- Kortext (e-books)
Kortext gives you access to hundreds of books for NHS Staff and students including collections on sustainability, wellbeing and resilience and equality and diversity. The platform includes lots of books for GPs and practice staff too.
Journals
Two resources to help you access and organise full-text journals.
- LibKey Nomad
LibKey Nomad is an easy way to download or request journal articles. Wherever you find an article, whether that’s on the journal website or in Pubmed or Google Scholar, look for the Nomad symbol to access or request the article.LibKey Nomad has been added to your Trust PCs and laptops but you can also install it on your own device. Please select Primary Care and ICB Staff in Halton, Knowsley and St Helens as your organisation.
- BrowZine
Primary Care and ICB staff and students have access to a wide range of full-text medical and healthcare journals. You can find them all easily in one place using BrowZine.
Use BrowZine to browse by subject or search for a specific title. You can save your favourite journals and articles on your personal bookshelf and keep track of when the latest issues are available.See our BrowZine guide for more information.
Download the free BrowZine app, to access journals on your mobile. Select Primary Care and ICB Staff in Halton, Knowsley and St Helens when prompted to choose your library.
Resources for Patients
- NHS Health A to Z
A patient information resource this is the online 'front door' to the NHS. It is the country's biggest health website and gives all the information you need to make choices about your health.
- Patient
Aimed at patients and carers this website aims to provide non-medical people in the UK access to good quality information about health and disease.
- TravelHealthPro
Find travel health advice for destinations worldwide and a wealth of useful resources for travellers and health professionals providing travel health services in the UK.
