Current Awareness

We have created a Current Awareness portal to keep Trust staff up to date with current information in their specialty . This portal provides specialty updates, each “Specialty update” provides books available in the library,  latest articles from relevant journals, news and also search alerts from pubmed.

The following specialty updates are available. If you want us to include any other specialty please contact us.

Accident & Emergency Update

Anaesthetics Update

Cardiovascular Update

Diabetes & Endocrinology Update

Dermatology Update

Elderly Care Update

Gastroenterology Update

Haematology Update

Health Management Update

Infection Control Update

Innovation & Improvement Update

Midwifery Update

Musculoskeletal Update

Neurology Update

Nursing Update

Obstetrics & Gynaecology Update

Oncology Update

Paediatrics Update

Pharmacy Update

Physiotherapy Update

Respiratory Medicine Update

Other updates

Find all updates

We now have access to KnowledgeShare which provide access to personalised current awareness service alerts, allowing you to receive new evidence on topics  tailored to your requirements. It covers latest articles, policy documents, websites, guidance and books on topics of your interest.

All Trust staff can register for KnowledgeShare alerts. Register now to receive updates on the topics that you are interested in.

Library News & What’s new

Library Training Sessions - Jul-Aug

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.

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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.

Menopause Game

Team resilience game

Dysphagia game

Hydration 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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DynaMedAccess DynaMed, clinical decision support tool on the Trust intranet without password, access remotely with NHS OpenAthens, download the app to access on mobile devices anywhere. See the quick guide for details

 

Access BMJ Best Practice, clinical decision support tool on the Trust intranet without password, access remotely with NHS OpenAthens, download the app to access on mobile devices anywhere. See the  user guide for details.


Staff Publications lists:

COVID- 19 Staff Publications

WMUH -2025

CWMH (can download only on the Trust computers)

Institutional Repository of Staff Publications

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