Library Services

Please note that the Library will be closed for the morning on Friday 18th May. We will reopen at 1pm.  

We are a professional library information and resource service available to all Trust staff, with services also available to NHS community healthcare staff and health promoters working in the city of Manchester. The Health Information and Resources Library is based in Fallowfield, and the Outreach Librarian can visit Trust staff in their workplace. We work closely with the University Hospital of South Manchester, NHS Foundation Trust, Education & Research Centre Library. For Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Library Contact: 0161 701 1480/1484. To find other NHS Libraries locally please use the interactive map.

Library News

The Lancet is the world's leading independent medical journal. For 2012, all NHS staff and anyone eligible for an NHS Athens account will continue to have access to the online version for the next 3 years through NHS Evidence. The subscription has been funded by NICE and includes access from 2008. You can access the Lancet via our A-Z, follow the link to Elsevier Science Direct, and login with your Athens username and password.

What we do

We support your evidence-based practice and lifelong learning by providing access to information, and provide resources to support your health promotion work. We can help with:

  • Keeping up to date throughout your career
  • Research and finding out
  • Support for decision making

Library services include:

  • Access to books, reports, journals and multimedia resources
  • Health promotion models and other teaching resources available to borrow
  • Enquiry service
  • Literature searching service
  • Training on searching the Healthcare Databases
  • Current awareness: email bulletins
  • Electronic resources, available with your NHS Athens password
  • Access to documents through our inter-library loan service
  • Leaflets and posters on a range of health promotion topics
  • Study space with PCs and access to photocopying facilities

Services may vary depending on user category; please contact us for details.

Please browse through our pages for further details:

Keeping up to date

Electronic resources and Library catalogues

Library Services and Forms 


Contact details

Telephone: 0161 248 1769

Address:

Fallowfield Library - 1st Floor
Platt Lane
Manchester M14 7FB

Email: Library.Services@mhsc.nhs.uk

 

To contact the Outreach Librarian directly:

Rosalind McNally
Outreach Librarian
Research and Development Department
3rd Floor, Rawnsley Building
Central Manchester Hospitals site
Hathersage Road
Manchester M13 9WL

Telephone: 0161 276 3308 / 07501486816 (mobile)

Rosalind.McNally@mhsc.nhs.uk

 

Other Library staff (all based at Fallowfield):

Emily Hopkins - Library Manager

Emily.Hopkins@mhsc.nhs.uk  Telephone: 0161 248 1912

Carnell Bell-Smith - Resource and Information Advisor

Carnell.Bell-Smith@mhsc.nhs.uk  Telephone: 0161 248 1755

Sarah Race - Resource and Information Advisor

Sarah.Race@mhsc.nhs.uk  Telephone: 0161 248 1753

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Opening hours:

Monday - Friday 9am - 4.30pm

These are our usual hours but may be subject to change. We recommend you contact us on 0161 248 1769 to check we are open before making a special journey. The service is closed on statutory holidays, and any other closures will be advertised here.