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  • Home
    • Login to Microsoft 365
  • Evidence Resources
    • NHS Knowledge & Library Hub
    • Databases >
      • Search Ovid
      • Search EBSCO
      • Search ProQuest
    • UpToDate >
      • Login to UpToDate
    • Royal Marsden >
      • Login to Royal Marsden
    • Prescribing resources
    • LibKey
    • Critical appraisal
    • Referencing
    • Evidence reviews
    • Athens >
      • Login to Athens
  • Knowledge Hubs
    • Clinical specialties >
      • Acute medicine
      • Anaesthetics
      • Audiology
      • Cardiology
      • Critical care
      • Dermatology
      • Emergency Medicine
      • Endocrinology
      • Gastroenterology >
        • Gastro patient information
      • Geriatrics
      • Mental Health
      • Obstetrics and Gynaecology
      • Oncology
      • Orthopaedics
      • Paediatrics
      • Palliative Care >
        • Chaplaincy
      • Public Health
      • Radiology
      • Respiratory
      • Rheumatology
      • Surgery
    • Staff groups >
      • Assessors, Supervisors and Educators
      • Community Staff
      • General Practitioners
      • Healthcare Assistants
      • Junior Doctors
      • Managers and Leaders
      • NHS Staff
      • Nurses >
        • International Nurses
        • Nursing Associates
        • Revalidation
      • Occupational Therapists
      • Pharmacists
      • Physiotherapists
      • SAS Doctors
      • Speech Therapists
      • Students
    • Conditions >
      • Autism
      • COVID-19
      • Dementia
      • Menopause
      • Monkeypox
      • Sepsis
    • Initiatives >
      • Awards
      • Coaching
      • CWP Best Practice
      • Digital Literacy
      • English language resources
      • Health Literacy
      • Knowledge Management
      • Patient information
      • Quality Improvement
      • Research
      • Staff Wellbeing
      • Sustainability
      • Talent Management
  • Library Services
    • Search the Library Catalogue >
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      • eJournals
      • Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures [NHS Athens]
    • Training
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    • Newsletter
    • Guides & Leaflets
    • Request an Inter-Library Loan
    • Request an evidence search
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Library Services

Facilitating evidence-based decision making

The Library & Knowledge Service is here to help you make a difference, and to help inform your decision-making. We can help you to keep up-to-date with the latest evidence and ensure that you are able to make the best use of the resources available to you.
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Opening hours

24/7 access with your Trust ID badge. Items can be borrowed, renewed and returned using the self-service machine. Study and computing facilities are also available 24/7.
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Staffed: Monday-Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm. Unstaffed weekends and public holidays.
We can do evidence searches for you - click here to requsest a search

Books

You may borrow up to 8 items for 3 weeks, renewable by phone, email or online.
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Fiction and wellbeing

There is a small collection of fiction books available for you to borrow. We welcome donations of recently published fiction. 
A Kindle is also available to borrow, pre-loaded with fiction e-books.

We also have a Wellbeing collection, which includes all the 'Books on Prescription', other health stories and self-help books.

Inter-library requests

Any books or journal articles not available from the Library resources (print and online) are usually available on inter-library loan. 
Request an inter-library loan
Request an evidence search

Keep up-to-date

KnowledgeShare is our targeted current awareness service. We’ll let you know when we find high-impact publications in your area, including guidelines, policy and high-level research evidence.
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Various email alerts, bulletins and updates are available to help you keep up-to-date in your subject area.

​More information is available on the 'Keep up to date' page.
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Articles written by Trust staff
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Click here to see all the educational games available to borrow!
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Laptops and IT Equipment

12 laptops are available for trust staff and learners to borrow for online training, courses and meetings. ​

Webcams and headsets are also available, to borrow or use in the library.

Computers

PCs are available for trust staff to drop-in and use 24/7. All have Microsoft Office, internet and ESR / e-learning. Printing, photocopying (10p/A4 and 20p/A3) and scanning available.

Study areas

Individual and group study areas are available in the Library. Study spaces have power sockets and/or PCs. The quiet study room can be pre-booked for study or online learning​.

Training

The library runs a number of different courses, which can be arranged for 1:1 or small group sessions. We can provide training in the library or come to your place of work. Contact the library for more information or to book a session. Current courses include:
  • Overview of Online Library Resources
  • Advanced Evidence Searching
  • Study and Research Skills
  • Introduction to Critical Appraisal
  • How to do a Systematic Review
  • Social Media in the Workplace
  • Basic IT Skills
More information on each course is available on the 'Training' page, and additional online information / videos are available on the 'Guides and Leaflets' page.
We can also attend team meetings or training events to demonstrate resources, from a quick 5 minute demo to more advanced training.

​Join the library

All East Cheshire NHS Trust staff and students here on placement are eligible to join. Complete the online form or call into the library.
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Guides and leaflets

The Library produces a number of guides and leaflets to help you use the resources and services.
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Twitter and Facebook

Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter Twitter for current evidence-based information and news on library services and new resources!
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Library forms

  • ​Evidence search request form [pdf]
  • Journal inter-library request form [pdf] [Word] [online]
  • Book inter-library request form [pdf] [Word] [online]
  • Library registration form [pdf] [Word] [online]
  • ​Sign up to KnowledgeShare, Bulletins & Updates [pdf] [Word] [KnowledgeShare online] [Bulletins online]
Library Privacy Policy

Library standards

The Library & Knowledge Service works to the following standards to deliver a high quality, responsive service to all its users.
The library aims to fulfill the following service requests within the time frame detailed below:
    Inter-library loans:              5 working days
    Evidence searches:            by user deadline
    Enquiries:                             3 working days
    Stock processing:              10 working days
Please contact Lynda Cotterill the Library Services Manager if our service falls short of your expectations.

How to find us

We are located on the 2nd floor of New Alderley House, on the Macclesfield District General Hospital site. Directions and maps can be found by clicking the map below. Parking information is available on the East Cheshire NHS Trust website.

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