Library
Our library is located in the Education Centre, East Wing Level 0.
Join the library
All staff and students on clinical placement are welcome to join the library. Members of the pubic are also welcome to join the library too.
There are many benefits of being a member of the library. You can borrow books but did you know you can also access our online content, attend our workshops, request books and articles, ask for a literature search, receive evidence alerts and bulletins and stay up to date with events the library is hosting.
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Contact us
Email: library.office@dchft.nhs.uk
Tel: 01305 255248
You can keep up to date with all the latest information by following the DCH Library on their X account.
Staffed opening hours
8.30am – 5pm Monday – Thursday
8.30am – 4.30 Fridays
You will have 24 hour access with your ID badge.
Keep up to date with the latest evidence
If you let us know your professional interests we can send you alerts in the latest evidence, relevant to your field or specialty.
Please fill in the form which will allow us to set up an account on KnowledgeShare for you. This is a service which provides evidence updates tailored to your specific professional interests. Alerts generated include guidelines, systematic reviews and selected high-level journals.
Complete a Knowledge form here.
Request a book or article
If we don’t hold a book or article you need, we probably know a library that does! Let us know the details and we will get it in for you.
Request a literature search
As long as it’s not for a course of study, we can do literature searches (clinical and non-clinical) for you.
Training and workshops
We offer training on information skills, including:
- study skills
- academic writing
- referencing
- finding the evidence
- critical appraisal
- reflective reading and writing
- health literacy awareness.
We also offer demos in how to get the most out of our online resources, including:
- NHS Knowledge and Library Hub
- ClinicalKey
- BMJ Best Practice
- Royal Marsden Manual Online
- Databases