Chelsea and Westminster Medical Library

The chosen resources categorised below are either freely accessible, or can be accessed using your Athens username and password. If you do not have an Athens password, please visit the Medical Library. All resources have been evaluated by library staff to ensure quality of content.

National Library for Health (NLH)

The National Library for Health (NLH) is a co-ordinated network of NHS library services and resources, driven by a partnership of the NHS Library and Knowledge Development. An Athens password is required for some resources on this site.
http://www.library.nhs.uk/

National Library of Medicine Gateway

The NLM Gateway is a Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple resources at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). These resources Include Toxline, ClinicalTrials.gov, Pubmed and much more.
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd

PubMed

Pubmed is a searchable interface produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, that includes 17 million citations from the database Medline and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950’s.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez

Intute : health and life Sciences

A free catalogue of hand-selected and evaluated web resources for the health and life sciences.
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/

EMBASE database

EMBASE is a bibliographic database that has particular strengths in the areas of drugs and toxicology. The database contains more than 18 million records, of which about two thirds of the articles include abstracts. An Athens username and password is required for access.
http://nhs.dialog.com/

AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine)

A database covering the fields of complementary or alternative medicine. An Athens username and password is required for access.
http://nhs.dialog.com/

Cinahl

Cinahl covers all aspects of nursing and allied health disciplines. An Athens username and password is required for access.
http://nhs.dialog.com/

Psycinfo

The PsycINFO database provides extensive international coverage of the literature on psychology and allied fields. An Athens username and password is required for access.
http://nhs.dialog.com/

Current Controlled Trials

Current Controlled Trials allows users to search, register and share information about randomised controlled trials.
http://www.controlled-trials.com/

The Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is a group of databases providing a collection of regularly updated systematic reviews on clinical treatments and interventions, to aid health care decision making.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/106568753/HOME

BMJ Clinical Evidence

Owned by BMJ Publishing Group Limited, BMJ Clinical evidence is an international resource that provides systematic reviews, summarising the current knowledge of the prevention and treatment of clinical conditions. It describes the best available evidence from systematic reviews, randomised clinical trials and observational studies, and notes where there is a lack of good evidence. However, it must be noted that it doesn’t claim to make recommendations or to be regarded as a set of guidelines. Requires an Athens password. To access click on the link below, login to My Library and scroll to the bottom of the page where you will find the link.

http://www.library.nhs.uk/mylibrary/default.aspx

Netting the Evidence

This resource is a Google based search system related to the methodology of evidence-based medicine and evidence based practice. Currently it assess 100 evaluated sites.
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=004326897958477606950%3Adjcbsrxkatm

TRIP Database (Turning Research into Practice)

The TRIP database is designed to answer clinical queries using the principles of evidence-based medicine. Its contents includes Cochrane reviews, Clinical Evidence, Bandolier and over 100 generalist and specialist peer reviewed journals as well as guidance, electronic books, patient information leaflets and images.
http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html

British National Formulary (BNF)

The electronic version of the BNF, which provides information on the prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines and is, designed to provide guidance on the selection of medicines. It requires free registration in order to access the latest edition.
http://www.bnf.org/bnf/

National electronic Library for Medicines

Formerly known as DrugInfoZone, it provides timely and relevant information on medicines and support prescribing to the NHS at the point of care. This is part of the National Library for Health (NLH).
http://www.nelm.nhs.uk/home/default.aspx

MeReC bulletins

Provided by the National Prescribing Centre (NPC), it provides information clinical and therapeutic topics and is distributed free of charge to GPs and pharmacists in England and Wales. It is a reference tool that aims to inform both GPs and pharmacists on current prescribing practice.
http://www.npc.co.uk/merec_bulletins.htm

Prescribing Nurses On-line Resource

Prescribing nurses on-line resource is a free online educational resource developed by health care staff at the London Metropolitan University. It includes a number of exercises to test knowledge of nurse prescribing issues, and links to other useful websites.
http://learning.north.londonmet.ac.uk/prescribing/index.htm

EMBASE database

EMBASE is a bibliographic database that has particular strengths in the areas of drugs and toxicology. The database contains more than 18 million records, of which about two thirds of the articles include abstracts.
An Athens username and password is required for access.
http://nhs.dialog.com/

National Statistics Online

Statistics provided by the National Statistics office of the UK. It includes statistics such as cancer survival and GP consultations as well as data on dental health.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/

Health and Safety Executive Statistics

HSE statistics provides access to statistics on work-related ill-health, injuries, dangerous occurrences, enforcement and gas safety.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) is the national statistical data provider for England of the care provided by NHS hospitals and for NHS hospital patients treated elsewhere. HES is the data source for a wide range of healthcare analysis for the NHS, Government and many other organisations and individuals.
http://www.hesonline.nhs.uk/Ease/servlet/ContentServer?siteID=1937&categoryID=537

Department of Health

The department of Health website provides health and social care policy, guidance, publications and statistics, as well as the latest news on health in the UK.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/index.htm

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

NICE is an independent UK organisation and provides guidance in three areas of health, public health, health technologies and clinical practice.
http://www.nice.org.uk/

General Medical Council

Provides information about the Council, latest news releases, information about medical education, good medical practice, fitness to practice and registration information. It also includes the GMC Register, providing information on practicing doctors.
http://www.gmc-uk.org/

UK PubMed Central

Based on PubMed Central (PMC), the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) provides a free-to-access online digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed research publications.
http://ukpmc.ac.uk/

BioMed Central

Publisher of 185 peer-reviewed open-access journals covering all areas of biology and medicine.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/

Public Library of Science

Freely accessible peer-reviewed articles in all areas of science.
http://www.plos.org/

Free Medical Journals

A list of freely accessible free-text medical journals.
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

FreeBooks4Doctors

A list of freely available full-text medical textbooks.
http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/