Thursday, 14 June 2018

BMJ Case Reports now available

We now have access to the BMJ Case Reports. You can gain access is via OpenAthens. 


If you would like to submit a report, please contact the Library and we will provide you with our Fellowship number.





Please contact the Library if you require any assistance.

SPACE HUB has launched!

Standardised Pathways 

And Clinical  Excellence

The Hub offers much more than just pathways. The aim is for it to be the new area for all clinical pathways and departmental documents within the Trust, including a digital evolution of the Red Book.

This initiative, driven by Dr Sue Davidson has been 3 years in the making. The Hub is a very high quality storage room. We need staff to fill it with good, safe, Royal Surrey pathways and documents. This is an exciting opportunity for each department to organise all of their documents and pathways, as well as to update them into the SPACE format. Help to update to the new format is available and a link can be found within the SPACE Hub to access this help. It will only be as good as information contributed.

I want to encourage everyone who works with patients to add to the Hub. The pathway builder tool (electronic fuzzy felt) built in house by Dr Mark Halling-Brown is really easy to use.

The Hub is also the new home of the Red Book but, in time, we aim to replace the Red Book with SPACE pathways.
A clear flow chart is always going to be safer and more effective than 6 pages of text!

There is also an area in the Hub for teams to store departmental documents.
This will ensure that they are accessible across the trust, unlike those stored on the G drive at the moment.

It is critical that Hub contains only first rate material. The motto is: a Library not a Skip!

Ultimately the success of this project depends on people sharing their knowledge and expertise for the benefit of patients and other trust employees.

Please be a part of the Hub’s success.

Thursday, 23 November 2017

Save the date - 4th December 2017



The Library 24 hour access system is being replaced on 

Monday 4th December 

From this date your current 24 hour access card will no longer work 


Please ask the library team for more  information and to arrange to collect your new card









Clinical Key on Trial


Trial access is now available for all staff and students until the end of December 2017

ClinicalKey is a comprehensive clinical search engine produced by Elsevier.

To access this resource go to: www.clinicalkey.com and Login via OpenAthens, you can also activate your account and register for personalised features which will allow you to download content. 

ClinicalKey contains:

  • 650+ online journals, including key titles that we do not currently have direct access to
  • 1000+  ebooks, including many core titles and atlases
  • 17,000 videos and images

As well as searching for specific terms you can browse books or journals and limit to specialties to see what is available in one or more clinical areas.

For more information, and to let us know what you think of this resource, please contact the library team on: x4247/ rsc-tr.library@nhs.net

Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Library User Survey 2017


Library User Survey 2017

What do we do well?  How could we do better?

How could we improve our service to you?

Click here to take part!

Please let us know by completing a short online survey. The survey, should take at most 10 minutes to complete, and gives you the opportunity to provide feedback on library services and resources, and to have your say regarding what changes you'd like to see in the library.

Your feedback and comments will directly influence future library developments. 

Your comments make a difference...

As a result of feedback received from the last survey we have:
  • Increased the number of Trust network pcs in the library 
  • Created more quiet study spaces 
  • Updated stock in particular areas






Thursday, 22 June 2017

Get your fiction fix with Library Direct

Choose from a selection of books on loan from Surrey Public Libraries and available for you to borrow on site from the RSCH Library.


The current selection of Library Direct books are on loan to us for the next 3 months and will then be swapped for new titles.  Any member of staff or student on placement may borrow books. If you are not already a member of the RSCH library, please join, it’s free, and open to all staff.


It couldn’t be easier…
               1.    Join the Library
               2.    Choose a book

Wednesday, 3 May 2017

NEW - Wiley Online Medical and Nursing eJournal Collection now available from RSCH Library!

We now have access to 400+ peer reviewed journals available via the Wiley Online Medical and Nursing Collection.

The titles available include:  Cancer, Birth, British Journal of Surgery, BJU International, International Journal of Dermatology, Journal of Advanced Nursing Journal of Clinical Nursing and lots more.

A full list is available here.


You will need an OpenAthens account, registered to the Royal Surrey to access these journals, and they will appear as links if you are carrying out a search on the Healthcare Databases - HDAS.  

You can also search for a specific journal title via  NICE A-Z Journal Search - https://journals.nice.org.uk/