Libraries providing resources & services to SCAS staff & students
Electronic resources are available to all SCAS staff and students irrespective of location and are listed further down the page.
For library support to assist with access and searching available resources:

• The National Library Service for NHS Ambulance Services in England will provide:
  – literature searching and general enquiry services,
  – article request services,
  For any queries about the national service, contact Matt

• Discovery Library, Plymouth will provide:
  – access to electronic resources- incl. problems with Athens accounts,
  – information skills training and search help,
  – resource access queries and requests for new resources,
  – urgent literature search services.
  For any queries about Discovery Library services, contact the team via online form, email (staffed hours 08.30 – 17.30 Monday – Friday).

Evidence Based Practice and CPD

A range of evidence-based resources are available to help inform patient care including:

BMJ Best Practice (don’t use Internet Explorer, choose alternative browser)
Evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion offering step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention across

.****Note you will need a local NHS Athens account (register here). On 1st access you’ll be asked to create personal account to download free App***

BNF and BNF for Children–should work automatically on NHS networked machine, if outside NHS network login with NHS Athens account.
Click here to find out about the free BNF/BNFC App.

ClinicalKey– clinical insight search tool which also gives access to over 1100 electronic books and 500 journals and other fulltext resources
Note you will need an NHS Athens account (register here).

Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS)– provided by NICE. Summaries of the current evidence base & practical guidance on best practice for >300 primary care presentations, regular updates to all topics and up to 10 new topics each year

Cochrane Library– collection of databases (details here) containing different types of high-quality, independent evidence such as Systematic Reviews, RCTs and Health Technology Assessments.

Elearning for Health (ELfH) -Health Education England’s suite of high quality content free of charge training (topics incl. Paramedic programme, COVID-19 programme including COVID-19 elearning resources for Paramedics) in partnership with the NHS and Professional Bodies.
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account (register here)

NICE Evidence– access to authoritative clinical & non-clinical evidence and best practice through a web-based portal. provided by NICE.

TRIP Database– clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice.

Journals 

Full A-Z list of all journals– you will need an NHS Athens account- click here to register.

Selected Prehospital and Emergency Medicine journals below

If we don’t hold your required article may make an article request via the national library service

Books

****List of selected Prehospital practice, research and education ebooks*****

Additional books available via SWIMS library catalogue (select SCAS as location)
and the LKS ASE Collections.

Access to Ross and Wilson anatomy and physiology in health and illness

All ebooks require NHS Athens account (register here).