The Trust library provides a service to
all 
staff of the Royal Berkshire NHS
Foundation Trust, South
Central Ambulance Service, affiliated organisations and all
other NHS staff in South Central.
The main library is on the first floor
of the Trust Education Centre at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, with
a small satellite collection in the Prince Charles Eye Unit,
Windsor.
Library staff
Rowena Perry: Library Services & E-Learning
Manager
Jill Duncan: Clinical Librarian
Lucy Gilham: Librarian
Beverley Hixon: Librarian
Marion Shepherd: Senior Library
Assistant
Helen Nicholson: Library / E-Learning
Assistant
Library services
- Enquiries
- Training
- Books and journals – The Library Catalogue lists books and
other resources available in the library, as well as items held by
other NHS libraries across South Central and the South West of
England - see the link on the right hand side of this
page.
- Inter-library requests
- Current awareness services including the RBH Evidence Hub
- Photocopying (charges apply)
- Internet access to databases, electronic journals and other
resources
For more information see our information services guide on the
right hand side of this page.
Finding the evidence workshops
These workshops aim to enable health care practitioners to find
the evidence they need to support them in their work and to make
clinical and management decisions. They are delivered by the staff
of the Trust Library.
For more information please contact the library.
Electronic resources
Databases
- Amed
- British Nursing Index
- Cinahl
- Embase
- HMIC
- Medline
- PsycINFO
- Cochrane Library
Electronic journals
For easy access and to see which titles are available see
Journals
on the NICE Evidence
Search - Journals & Databases (formerly NHS Evidence) -
see the E-Journals guide on right hand side of this page.
Mobile Apps
BNF & BNFc Apps
BNF & BNFc apps
are available for mobile devices produced by NICE. Free to NHS
staff throughout England - log in using NHS Athens - can be
downloaded from Apple iTunes or Google Android
Marketplace.
To access the above resources you need to register for an Athens
username and password – see the guide on the right hand side of
this page.
Most of the above electronic resources and access to Athens are
available through NICE Evidence Search - Journals &
Databases (formerly NHS Evidence).