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 a Athens username and password here. https://openathens.nice.org.uk/ with your NHS email address.

All users have access to the following: clinical and non-clinical e-books, Clinical Key Psychiatry and Nursing, Oxford Handbook E-book 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 Knowledge and Library Hub is here! It allows users to search all our e-resources in one window.

FAQs about the Hub are here and user guide here

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  

Short 5 minute video here to show you how easy it is

Searching: Health and Care Evidence

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

bchft.penn.library@nhs.net 

Dorothy Pattison Library

Dorothy Pattison Hospital, Alumwell Close, Walsall, WS2 9XH

Tel 01922 607 040 

bchft.dorothypattison.library@nhs.net

Please email bchft.library@nhs.net for further information or call Bushey Fields Hospital Library on 01384 325099