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.
Below are the locations and contact details of each of our 4 library sites.
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.
We send out a monthly service newsletter to library members to keep you updated on new services and resources.
Please email us if you would like to be added to our mailing list.