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The Patricia Bowen Library caters to the educational, lifelong learning, training, research, and clinical information needs of all Trust staff at the West Middlesex Hospital site, as well as staff working across sites and students completing clinical placements.

Round-the-clock library access: Eligible members can use their Trust ID badge to enter the 24-hour section of the library outside of regular hours. To use this service, you must register as a library member. For further information, please reach out to the library staff.

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Impact of Our Services

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Impact of our services

These case study vignettes outline impact of our services.

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Staphylococcus

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Cardiology _Health_Information

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Dessertation

vocal acoustic biomarkers

Mouth Care

ductal carcinoma

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health and wellbeing

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staff publications

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Remote working

Coronary bypass pateint leaflet

Social determinants of health

IVF caesarian case study

sensory garden

snack foods

cervical cleverage

cardiac rehabilitation

cryopreservation

Apocrine carcionoma of the breast

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New Books

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New Books

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Library has subscription to DynaMed clinical tool. You can access evidence-based content written by a world-class team of physicians who synthesize the evidence and provide objective analysis

Access now (no password required on the intranet)

DynaMd App

Get answers to clinical questions everywhere you go. Access information offline, bookmark favourites, email topics, and write and save notes. Staff can access this tool without any password on the Trust networked computers. To access remotely you need OpenAthens account, if you don’t have openAthens account you can register now.

Regiter now for OpenAthens

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OpenAthens

Unlock the free access to some of the most comprehensive medical & healthcare resources.
Access journals, eBooks, eLearning and databases on your PC or device.

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eLearning

You will be able to access e-Learning for Healthcare using your OpenAthens account.

Go to eLearning for health care

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Health & Wellbeing Zone

Comfy Chairs

Available 24 hours

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Comfy Chairs to relax and read

Dedicated computer to watch relaxation videos

Wellbeing Books

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Library Relocation and Book Sale Announcement

Later this year, the West Middlesex Hospital Library will be relocating to a smaller space within the Diagnostic, Treatment and Education Centre (DTEC). As a result of this move, the library will be selling a large portion of its book stock.

Library Relocation: Print journal holdings available for free

The Westmid Library will move to the new Diagnostic, Treatment and Education Centre (DTEC) building later this year. Because the new space is much smaller, we will be disposing of our print journal collection. Before that happens, we invite staff, teams, and departments to take any individual journals or entire sets from our holdings free of charge. For a complete list of available journals, please contact us. You are also welcome to visit the library in the Education Centre to browse our print collection. We are open Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.

Health & Wellbeing Collection

Our wellbeing collection has a range of self-help and mood-boosting-books for library members to borrow. Books includes:

Mindfulness
Stress and Anxiety Management
Emotional Resilience
Meditation
Yoga, Pilates & Tai Chi
Healthy Eating

Access full list of Health & Wellbeing Book Collection

We also have a range of resources to help staff to relax and stay healthy, including on-going jigsaw puzzles, colouring books and colouring pencils to help staff to relax and de-stress, so feel free to pop in and do a bit of jigsaw and colouring.

Board Games

We have a collection of educational board games which can be used in training sessions and to gain CPD credits. Below board games recently added to our existing collection.

Team resilience game

Mental health at work Map game

Mental health awareness

LGBT+ in the workplace game

Safeguarding game

If you’re interested in borrowing these board games for your CPD or training or if you have any questions please email chelwest.library.infoservice@nhs.net

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Staff Publications lists:

COVID- 19 Staff Publications

CWMH (can download only on the Trust computers)

Institutional Repository of Staff Publications

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