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Midwifery

A guide to support Midwifery students

Access to NHS LIbraries

To find details for the NHS library for your current placement go to: www.hlisd.org. Contact the library or visit their website to check local arrangements. 

To search the stock available in local NHS libraries go to: www.swims.nhs.uk except Exeter Health Library – go to: http://services.exeter.ac.uk/eml/

NHS Athens

You may also be eligible for a local NHS Athens account whilst on placement in a particular trust. Please wait till you are on placement within the NHS and register from an NHS computer, stating the end-date of your placement in that trust, at:  https://register.athensams.net/nhs/

 This will enable you to access the NHS funded national  level content as well as the majority of locally purchased content via www.library.nhs.uk (some libraries will provide additional resources via their library website)

KSpa at Truro

If you are a student based in Cornwall you can use the Knowledge Spa in Truro

The Cornwall Health Library website gives information on how to use the library

The Truro Library Catalogue (SWIMS) can be searched online.