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.

Christmas Opening Hours

The Library will be closed from 25^th Dec 2025– 1^ST Jan 2026.Please note that swipe card access to the 24 hour section of the library will continue to be available at all times.

Changes to the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub

The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub (KLhub) is getting a fresh look from July 7 with a new and improved user interface. You will benefit from the improved search functionality with it remaining the single-best platform to browse, search and access eResources using your NHS OpenAthens account.

The new KLHub means that there are some changes that you should be aware of ahead of time. From July any existing search alerts, custom folders and journal alerts which have been saved in MyEBSCO will no longer be available. This will affect items saved in the KLHub as well as EBSCOhost databases. Please contact library staff if you need advice on saving your searches in order to replicate them later.

ProQuest Databases

From July 1st the following ProQuest databases will no longer be available via NHS OpenAthens:

AMED, British Nursing Index (BNI), Health Research Premium Collection, PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding these changes, please contact library staff.

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.

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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