Library & Knowledge Services

Email: Library.service@bthft.nhs.uk

Telephone : 01274 364130

Address : Field House, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Duckworth Lane, Bradford, BD96RJ

Opening Hours

The library is staffed Monday – Friday, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

Outside of these hours you have 24 hour access to the facilities and the Library, IT and Study Space areas can be accessed at any time using your ID badge/Swipe-card.

The library is a quiet working place; conducive for effective study. Please ensure you keep noise levels to a minimum when you are within the library area.

All of our on-line information resources require you to sign-in using an NHS OpenAthens account. You can set this up quickly by completing the short on-line registration form . This single account will allow you to access all of the resources listed below:

Clinical Evidence Summaries – These resources provide current best evidence summaries. Use these if you require quick access to comprehensive yet concise, evidence based best practice on your chosen topic.

BMJ Best Practice – BMJ Best Practice takes you quickly and accurately to the latest evidence-based information, whenever and wherever you need it. Access step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention; updated daily with the latest evidence and expert opinion.

UptoDate – Evidence-based Clinical Decision Support. When you care for patients, the stakes are high and every decision counts. UptoDate provides you with the best evidence and clinical guidance at your fingertips to answer even the most complex questions with confidence.

Full Text Journals

All of our on-line journal content can be accessed quickly and easily through Browzine

Research Databases – These provide access to databases of millions of published research articles covering all aspects of healthcare. If you’re not sure which of the databases is best for your requirements contact the library team and we can advice you on the best and most effective options for you.

Cochrane Library (Cochrane Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis)

EBSCO Information Services (CINAHL, MEDLINE, GreenFILE, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, databases)

OVID (AMED , EMBASE , MEDLINE, HMIC , Social Policy and Practice, databases)

Proquest (BNI , Psychinfo, MEDLINE , Health Research Collection , databases)

Other Nursing Focused Resources

Clinical Key Nursing – A research database that provides access to the full text of journals, textbooks and evidence summaries from the publisher Elsevier.

Clinical Skills – A collection of highly visual , evidence based procedures. Clinical skills has detailed documents to provide you with step by step guidance covering the most commonly used skills in healthcare. There’s a specific separate section for Healthcare Assistants covering all of the core skills required for the role.

Dynamic Health – Nursing information: Detailed information summaries covering topics relevant to nursing. Includes overviews of conditions, tests and lab results, detailed procedure and skills guides.

Royal Marsden Manual – Standard procedures and information from this well known text-book; providing guidance and step by step instructions for most common skills and processes.

Ebooks – As publishers restrict where they allow access to their books we use multiple ebook interfaces. However we have collated these into a single catalogue which you can search to identify what books we have – You can search the Ebook Catalogue here.

Ebook Central – Ebook content covering a wide range of topics .

Kortex Ebooks – Ebook content covering a wide range of topics .

Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry – access to the full text of this textbook

Oxford Medicine – Access the popular oxford handbook series of books and other titles from Oxford Press