Unfortunately, due to financial pressures NHS England has been unable to renew some of the NHS England Core Collection resources. This means that from 1st July 2025 Barts Health staff will no longer have access to the following:
The original announcement is available here. If you would like to send feedback to NHS England about the changes, please complete this form or email directly.
The announcement came after the majority of the Barts Health KLS resource budget for 2025/26 had already been committed, so we are sadly unable to pick up the subscriptions ourselves.
We appreciate it is disappointing to lose access to these resources, but we encourage you to contact us directly if you would like to discuss this further.
We provide a full range of support services, including:
The Newham Hospital Library has now moved to its new permanent location on the first floor of the Medical Education Centre. It is open and staffed Mon-Fri, 9:00-17:00.
A new Library Computer Room has opened on the first floor of the Medical Education Centre providing 24/7 access to PCs. Access is directly from the main hospital corridor. Please note the computer room is not staffed.
There are 10 PCs available to users to undertake e-learning and studying in the Library Hub at The Royal London, located in Outpatient Therapies on the 2nd floor, North Tower. Books requested from other libraries can be delivered to this library.
Opening hours: 24 hour swipe access, but staffed Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm (subject to staff availability)
Located on the ground floor of the King George V building, in the imaging department.
Opening hours: 24 hour swipe access, staffed Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm
There are 8 user PCs in the library for trust staff to use along with a small core collection of books. Library users, based at SBH, can request items from our other libraries and collect them from here.
Located at Junction 11 in Willow Lodge off the main hospital corridor. On entering the education centre please pass reception and turn right.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm
The knowledge hub provides 24/7 access to PCs and study spaces for Whipps Cross doctors with swipe badges. The knowledge hub is opposite the education centre reception.
Membership to the library is available to all Barts Health staff, students on placement and volunteers. Prospective new members will be asked to produce proof of employment, normally a staff ID. Students will be asked to produce their university photographic ID badge on their first visit.
Please either register online or visit one of our libraries during staffed hours to complete a membership form.
Members can borrow up to eight books, our loan period is three weeks and books can be renewed up to three times. Members can have access to our subscription content and may request items which are not in our collection through our interlibrary loans and document delivery services.
We also support staff with additional support needs by providing longer loan periods on our books, or by checking to see if a title is available as an ebook for you in order to increase the font size or make it more accessible. If you have any additional support needs at all that the library can accommodate, please let us know.
The 'Click and Collect' service allows borrowers to reserve the books they want from our collection and then choose the site they wish to collect the books from, all via the catalogue website.
You will need your username and password to reserve items using the catalogue. Your login details can be found on your welcome email or request a reminder on the site.
Books with less than four renewals or no pending reservations may be renewed using one of the following methods:
| Online: | Visit the library catalogue and log in with your username and password. |
| Contact us: | email us or phone 020 8535 6973 |
All our libraries have book return boxes, where books can be returned at any time.
| RLH | Staff Library, Outpatient Therapies on the 2nd floor, North Tower |
| SBH | Library Hub, imaging |
| WCH | Medical Education Centre, Willow Lodge, opposite the lift |
| NUH | Outside the Education Centre on first floor |
If you cannot find a book you need on our catalogue please request it and we will request a copy from another library on your behalf.
We send out a monthly service newsletter to library members to keep you updated on new services and resources.
Consult our archive page for older newsletters.
Please email us if you would like to be added to our mailing list.
Documentation regarding library policies, reports and membership eligibilty.