Library & Information Services
Welcome to the Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre Health Library
Health Library staff provide a professional information service to all staff, and students on placement, at the Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust, and to other NHS Trust staff and students who work across the Fylde Coast.
Latest News
- 22nd April 2008
The April edition of Knowledge Matters with the latest information from the Royal Colleges, Dept of Health and Cochrane is now online.
17th April 2008
Announcing our new paperback fiction collection. Please visit us and browse the titles. We are also very happy to accept donations of paperbacks that you have read and no longer need (In good condition, please !)
20th March 2008
Announcing NLH Search 2.0.
A special edition of Knowledge
Matters explains the new service.
28th February 2008
The latest edition of our bulletin Knowledge Matters (formerly Knowledge Insights).
National Knowledge Weeks - March/ April 2008
To view the National Knowledge weeks or Awareness months please follow the links.
Eating Disorders Awareness Week - 25th Febuary-2nd March - Child Health Specialist Library
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month - 1st - 31st March - Ovarian Cancer Action and Women's Health Specialist Library.
Acne - 3rd March - Skin
Disorders Specialist Library
Endometriosis - 3rd March - Women's
Health Specialist Library or Endometriosis
UK
Prostate Cancer - 10th March - Cancer
Specialist Library
Inflammatory Bowel Disease - 10th March - Gastroenterology
and Liver Disease Specialist Library
Deafness/ Hearing - 17th March - ENT
and Audiology Specialist Library
21st February 2008
OUT OF HOURS ACCESS
Please be aware that out of hours access to electronic health information is available via 6 PCs in the Library’s annex in the Cardiac Education Centre.
The ‘Library and Reading Area’ in the Cardiac Education Centre is available from 6 pm until 8.30 am Monday to Thursday and from 5.30 pm Friday through the weekend to 8.30 am on Monday.
Swipe Card Access to the Cardiac Education Centre is available using Trust ID badges. The Library door will be unlocked.
The entrance to the Cardiac Centre has facilities for the purchase and consumption of cold drinks.
20th February 2008 - NEW BOOKS - Now Available
The Trust library has recently purchased a number of new titles which can now be borrowed from the library. For a complete list of titles see the list below.
18th January 2008
ON SALE NOW:
Environmentally friendly cotton bags - only 50p per bag!
512MB Flash Drives (£9 each) - Special Offer - Buy one get one half price - While stocks last!
NEW ELECTRONIC JOURNALS for PRIMARY CARE STAFF
The following journals are now available online:
Journals Flyer - Primary Care Staff1
If you are Primary Care staff, to access these journals, click here
You will need to enter your NHS Athens username and password. If you do not already have one, register here, or contact the library for assistance.
The licence allows Acute Trust staff also to access the journals online - but only in the library itself. These staff should please ask at the library desk for the 'walk-in' access password.
24th July 2007 Health Library Blogline
Please click here for the library's newest Current Awareness Service. For more information please see the Current Awareness page.
E -books available to all staff
The NHS Libraries of Cumbria and Lancashire have recently purchased a good collection of key textbooks, available online to any member of staff, and accessible from work or from home. Click here for the list of new titles.
An NHS Athens login is required, so staff who have not yet registered for Athens should do so here. These new e-books are in addition to the various Oxford Textbooks and other publications which were already available to us locally and nationally.
** NEW FEATURE** LONG AWAITED COMPLETE JOURNALS LIST!
ALL journals currently available to staff - whether through local or regional subscriptions, or through National Library for Health - are now accessible through one consolidated A-Z listing. This makes it much easier to search, as everything - usernames and passwords included - is listed in one place. See our Journals page to try this out! NHS Athens login required.
NEW JOURNALS ONLINE
Excellent news! The following additional journals are now available to all staff online. You will need to use your NHS Athens login to see the articles full text. If you do not already have an NHS Athens login, please register here.
Clinical Orthopaedics and related research
UpToDate
Regular users may have realised already that UpToDate, a favourite evidence-based resource, is back, by popular demand! Available to staff only, there is a quick link to UpToDate from the Trust Intranet homepage. We are not, however, able to make it available to users from home via the Internet, due to the licence restrictions. Please contact the library if you require assistance to access this invaluable, easy-to-search, and very comprehensive medical resource.
TRIP database
Turning Research into Practice. This easy-to-use database once restricted the number of free searches you could do, but is now freely available to all for unlimited searching. Finds the highest quality evidence-based material available on the web. Search it from here.
