Welcome to your Medway NHS Knowledge and Library Service

The Medway Knowledge and Library Service offers the best resources to support clinical decision making, research, and lifelong professional development to all Medway NHS Foundation Trust staff, students on placement, and other NHS staff working across the Medway health economy.

How can we help?

Join the Library

Medway NHS Foundation Staff, students on placement at the hospital, and NHS staff working within the Medway towns can join the library by completing an online form.
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Access CINAHL Ultimate

The CINAHL Ultimate database gives full-text access to over 1,700 journals and magazines.
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Clinical Skills & Royal Marsden Manual

Access the Clinical Skills and Royal Marsden Manual rapid nursing resources.
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Search for Evidence Using the Library Hub

Access the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub for rapid evidence searching.
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Access KnowledgeShare

Access KnowledgeShare via OpenAthens.
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UpToDate & BMJ Best Practice

Get access to or register for the UpToDate and BMJ Best Practice Clinical Decision Making Tools.
You can also download the mobile apps from the links here.
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Contact Us/Visit Us

Find our opening hours, address, telephone and email contact details.
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Library Catalogue

Access our library catalogue to find books.
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Request a Search

Our library team can support you with finding the information you need.
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Request an Item

Complete a form to request a book from another NHS library.

You can also request articles not discoverable via the Knowledge and Library Hub.

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What is OpenAthens?

An OpenAthens account will give you access to hundreds of full text articles from a wide range of journals, as well as other resources such as BMJ Case Reports, UpToDate and e-books from Oxford University Press and Kortext.

You can register for an OpenAthens account by clicking here. Registering with an NHS email will bypass the verification process.

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KLS News

Staff Publication: Anticancer Research

26/03/2024

New Staff Paper! Aruni Ghose and Stergios Boussios in Anticancer Research. Access this article via OpenAthens at: Immunotherapy Combined With Standard Therapies in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma – A Meta-analysis – PubMed (nih.gov)

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Staff Publication

11/08/2023

New staff paper! Zakaria Ali Ibrahim Elmi and Sameer Sighakoli in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health Full text via OpenAthens at: Case-control study of serum vitamin D concentrations in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 and hospitalised controls suffering with respiratory tract infections of differing aetiology – PubMed (nih.gov)

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Staff Publication

27/07/2023

New staff paper! Aruni Ghose in Gynecologic Oncology Reports Full text via OpenAthens at: Translating the COVID-19 experience in widening the HPV vaccination campaign for cervical cancer in India – PubMed (nih.gov)

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Staff Publication

25/07/2023

New staff paper! Anna Vassiliou in International Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine Abstract available here: Systematic review and meta-analysis of predictive factors for spontaneous regression in lumbar disc herniation – PubMed (nih.gov)

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Staff Publication

21/07/2023

New staff paper! Sarah Hare in Anaesthesia Full text available via OpenAthens at: Development and validation of a prognostic model for death 30 days after adult emergency laparotomy – PubMed (nih.gov)

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Staff Publication

11/07/2023

New staff paper! Elizabet Sanchez and Stergios Boussios in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Full text available here: https://lnkd.in/eXn73aw6

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How can we help?

If you have any questions please feel to fill in the form and a member of our team will be in touch to assist you with your enquiry.

How can we help?

If you have any questions please feel to fill in the form and a member of our team will be in touch to assist you with your enquiry.

How can we help?

If you have any questions please feel to fill in the form and a member of our team will be in touch to assist you with your enquiry.

How can we help?

If you have any questions please feel to fill in the form and a member of our team will be in touch to assist you with your enquiry.

Request an article/book

Your library membership number is required for copyright purposes. Contact us if you do not have your membership number. If you are not yet a member you can join online.

One request per form only

We aim to process all requests by the next working day.

We aim to supply 90% of article requests by the next working day*.

We aim to supply 75% of book requests within five working days*.

*Some items are requested from other libraries and so may take longer to supply.

Use this form if you are unable to access the full text article with your NHS OpenAthens username and password.

Your details
We are committed to safeguarding your information. The information you supply will be used to contact you about services or resources you have requested from the Library and Knowledge Service. For further information on how we keep your information secure, and your rights to access it, read our full Privacy Policy and the KnowledgeShare Privacy Policy