Keep up to date with library news, and new developments in health information resources and services
To tie in with Wear Red Day, why not learn more about sepsis in an entertaining way.
Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries stock a range of educational board games including The Sepsis Game.
Play in the library or borrow it for your department to improve your knowledge together.
We have a growing range of apps available for our resources, to make accessing information on the go even easier, in some cases even when offline.
The library itself doesn't have a mobile app, but our website is responsively designed to work on any size screen.
The BNF/BNFC app is aimed at prescribers, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals who need sound, up-to-date information about the use of medicines. It combines the content from the BNF and BNFC, ensuring easy access to BNF information wherever you are.
No authentication required. Works offline.
BMJ Best Practice provides access to the latest evidence-based information for healthcare professionals, structured around the patient consultation with advice on symptom evaluation, test ordering, treatment approach and follow up. It also offers clinical calculators, patient information leaflets and some procedural videos.
The mobile app is available to all NHS staff and authentication requires a personal account, which can be created whilst on-site on a SaTH PC, or whilst logged in with an NHS OpenAthens account. Works offline.
Adobe Digital Editions is required to download our e-books to your mobile device for offline reading. Free registration for an Adobe ID required, and an NHS OpenAthens account is required to access and download e-books to your device. Our guide to downloading e-books gives more details.
Did you know that books from Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries’ collection of over 16,000 e-books can be downloaded to your mobile device for offline reading?
If you have an Apple or Android device, download the free Adobe Digital Editions app and create a free Adobe ID to log into it. Then access our e-book collection, login with NHS OpenAthens, find your book, and select ‘Download Book’.
You’ll be able to select the length of time you’d like to download the book for, up to 14 days, but if you need it for longer, you can simply ‘borrow’ it again after 14 days. Alternatively, if you just want a chapter, you can simply download a PDF of a single chapter which won’t expire.
Finding e-books is easy - simply select the e-book tab on OmniSearch.
BMJ Best Practice is now available to all NHS organisation in England.
It provides access to the latest evidence-based information for healthcare professionals, structured around the patient consultation, with advice on symptom evaluation, test ordering, treatment approach and follow up. It also offers clinical calculators, patient information leaflets and some procedural videos.
Onsite at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals (SaTH) simply visit the BMJ Best Practice website for password-free access. You'll have the option to create a personal account to record usage for CME/CPD points.
For off-site access, you can use an NHS OpenAthens account. Visit the BMJ Best Practice website and login with your NHS OpenAthens account. You can also use a personal account created whilst on-site at SaTH.
Mobile apps are available for Android and iOS devices. These require a personal account to authenticate which can either be created whilst on-site on a SaTH PC, or off-site by logging in with NHS OpenAthens account and then registering for a personal account.
You'll also find BMJ Best Practice as an option in OmniSearch where it can be searched along with many other resources.
For more details or advice, pop into one of our libraries.
SaTH Health Libraries are not just about medical and management titles. We also have a range of leisure books to help you escape into another world.
Grab a biography.... get caught up in a murder ..... go off on an adventure ..... curl up with a romance.....
We even have a collection of "Quick Reads" to fit in with your busy life. All the excitement but in a short sharp format.
Relax and chill with a good book!
We’ve recently introduced automatic renewals on our books, with 5 auto-renewals for 28 day loans, and 10 auto-renewals for 14 day loans.
This means that unless the book is reserved by someone else, or has come from another library, you won't need to worry about forgetting to renew your loans as we'll do it for you.
We’ll still send reminders about what you have out on loan, and we'll let you know if we’re unable to auto-renew your books for any reason.
This is something we've been asked about for some time, and thankfully due a library system upgrade we've been able to introduce it. If you have other comments on library services, or if there are services or resources you'd like to see, you can fill out our library survey until the end of January and be in with a chance to win a £20 book token. You can also contact us at any time with feedback or suggestions.
Did you know that we stock a range of educational board games to make learning about important topics engaging and fun?
These can be borrowed for use with your team, and library staff can come and help facilitate a game for your team.
The complete list is below, with links to the publishers website for more information on how they work, numbers of players, time to allow etc.
The 'Rapid' series of e-books are concise and easy-to-read, and ideal for reference or revision, covering the common scenarios that students or newly qualified staff might encounter.
They can be read online or downloaded to a mobile device for 24/7 access, and are available to library members via NHS OpenAthens.
You can access them on our virtual bookshelf, or you can search the whole collection of 20,000 e-books via OmniSearch.
Boxes of themed flashcards are available to borrow from SaTH Health Libraries. They are packs of short sharp facts to help you gain skills quickly and easily – ideal study aids. They are perfect for revision or to update your skills base. Titles include:
Gray’s Anatomy for Students
Netter’s Anatomy
Netter’s Physiology
Case Cards – common consulting challenges
Visit our catalogue to request and renew titles.
We've just renewed our subscription to BMJ Case Reports, a collection of over 15,000 case reports across all fields of medicine. Publishing a case report is a great way to share details of interesting cases on common and rare diseases.
Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries have a fellowship account on behalf of SaTH, and as well as allowing you to access the full-text of all the cases via an NHS OpenAthens account or on any SaTH PC, you can also submit case reports for publication without having to pay publication fees. Case reports submitted for publication are peer-reviewed quickly, usually appearing in the journal within 25 days, and BMJ Case Reports is indexed in the Medline database.
A number of case reports by Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust staff have already been published.
If you want to submit a case report, our fellowship number is 915046 and instructions for authors can be found on the BMJ Case Reports website.