Black Country Healthcare Knowledge & Library Services support staff and students on placement with the Trust with all clinical and non-clinical evidence and knowledge related questions.
If you would like access to free online tools and e-books, please register for an OpenAthens username and password at: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/ using your NHS email address.
All users have access to the following:
- clinical and non-clinical e-books collection
- Oxford Handbook
- Audiobooks collection
- BMJ Best Practice Point of Care Tool
- Royal Marsden Nursing Manual
- KnowledgeShare current awareness service.
- All evidence based free national subscription journal articles and locally purchased print and electronic journals.
NHS Knowledge and Library Hub
The BCHFT NHS Knowledge and Library Hub allows users to search all of our e-resources in one window.
- Visit the hub here (Full access is free to all NHS staff and learners using your NHS OpenAthens account).
- Don’t yet have an account? Register for NHS OpenAthens
- FAQs about the Hub are here and user guide here
- Short 5 minute video here to show you how easy it is
Please email bchft.library@nhs.net for general information or help from Knowledge and Library Services. Our three site libraries are listed below.
Tariq Saraf Library
Bushey Fields Hospital, Dudley, DY2 2LZ
Tel: 01384 325099
bchft.tariqsaraf.library@nhs.net
Oak Library
Beeches Education Centre, Penn Hospital, Wolverhampton, WV4 5HN
Tel: 01902 442956
Dorothy Pattison Library
Dorothy Pattison Hospital, Alumwell Close, Walsall, WS2 9XH
Tel 01922 607 040
bchft.dorothypattison.library@nhs.net
Knowledge and Library Services (2024)
Finding Reliable information on the Internet (2025)
Resources for online health information (2025)
Health Literacy (2024)
OpenAthens (2024)
NHS Knowledge and Library Services can give you up to date and trusted evidence and information, enabling high quality decision making, learning and development, research and innovation to achieve health improvement across England - locally, regionally and nationally.
Make the most of your local NHS Knowledge and Library Service. See details below on the main services we offer along with local training and reading groups.
Library services for users from Black Country ICS
