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Have you joined the Health Library yet?

 If you work for our NHS partners you can join the Health Library. Your membership will give you access to our facilities, services and resources.

With your library card you can:

  • enter the Health Library via swipe-access
  • use the printing, scanning, photocopy facilities
  • borrow books from our healthcare-specialist collection
  • borrow books from the collections at the Health Library at County and Keele Campus Library
  • request inter-library loans for articles or books which we do not have in our collections
  • request a literature search
  • book on a free training course to improve your information searching skills

Are you eligible to join?

Library membership is open to NHS staff working for:

  • University Hospitals for North Midlands
  • North Staffordshire Combine Healthcare
  • Clinical Commissioning Groups in Staffordshire
  • GP practices in Staffordshire
  • Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust

How do you join?

To join the library you need to complete a membership form. Make sure you complete all the fields and provide details of your workplace and your home address. Bring your form, along with your NHS ID badge, to the library counter. We'll check that you are eligible, and start to process your application. We'll send you an email when your library card is ready to be picked up.

Still not sure?

Watch our video for a short overview of what we can offer you.



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