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Explore different resources available for your subject area

In this section, you will find essential resources available for the subject area of Nursing and Healthcare. You can locate print books and have access to electronic books, journal articles, and databases. In order to access electronic books, journals, and databases you will need to use your institutional login. There is also a range of open access resources freely available online.

Health Care and Nursing Key Subject Resources

There are many different resources available to help with your wider reading and research. You can access some of them directly from this page but most of your key electronic resources for Health Care and Nursing are accessed through Library Search.

CINAHL

A comprehensive source for full-text articles from nursing and allied health journals.

Cochrane Library (direct access)

A collection of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It contains a collection of systematic reviews. No need to log in.

Community Care Inform

Community Care Inform is an online resource that enables professionals working with people make and evidence their decisions.

Embase (Ovid)

A biomedical and pharmaceutical database containing references from a wide range of international journals on pharmacology, rehabilitation, medicine, mental health and a number of other areas.

LexisNexis UK Newspapers

LexisNexis contains a news database of full-text UK regional, national and broadsheet newspapers.  Coverage goes back as far as January 1982 to the present day for some titles, although this varies by publication.

National Statistics Online or Office for National Statistics (direct access)

National statistics from the UK Government. Open access, no need to log in.

PubMed Central (direct access)

A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). Open access, no need to log in.

ScienceDirect

A full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters covering physical sciences, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.

Health Care and Nursing Useful External Resources

The resources below are external links, not provided or subscribed to by the University. Therefore, we are not able to guarantee continuity of access. Please contact us to let us know if they are not accessible anymore.

Care Quality Commission (CQC)

The independent regulator of health and adult social care in England that makes sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, and high-quality care, encouraging care services to improve.

Centre for Mental Health

The UK’s leading authority on mental health research, the Centre for Mental Health works with government, policy makers, service providers and commissioners to create social change.

Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP)

Offers critical appraisal skills training, workshops, and tools that will help you read and check health research for trustworthiness, results, and relevance so that you can decide if they are believable and useful.

Department of Health & Social Care

The government department that helps people to live better for longer; leading, shaping and funding health and care in England, making sure people have the support, care and treatment they need, with the compassion, respect and dignity they deserve.

EThOS

EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which enables access to the UK’s doctoral research theses. There are approximately 380,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 120,000 of these also provide access to full text thesis, either via download from the EThOS database or via links to the institution’s own repository.

Faculty of Public Health

The UK's Faculty of Public Health (FPH) is the standard setting body for specialists in public health in the United Kingdom. FPH is a joint faculty of the three Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (London, Edinburgh and Glasgow) and also a member of the World Federation of Public Health Associations.

Health and Care Professions Council

The Health and Care Professions Council regulate the following professions: biomedical scientists, clinical scientists, dietitians, occupational therapists, operating department practitioners, paramedics, radiographers and social workers in England.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) 

This is a British social policy research and development charity that funds UK-wide research and development programs seeking to understand the root causes of social problems, and how social needs can be met in practice. The charity produces informative and topical research reports on cities towns and neighborhoods, housing, income and benefits, people, society and work.

King's Fund

The King's Fund is an independent charity working to improve health and care in England. Their vision is that the best possible health and care is available to all.

London Datastore

The London Datastore is a free and open data-sharing portal where anyone can access statistics and data relating to the capital and its individual boroughs. The site provides over 700 datasets to help one understand the city and its problems.

Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency regulates medicines, medical devices and blood components for transfusion in the UK.

MentalHelp

MentalHelp.net provides comprehensive mental health and mental illness information on depression, bipolar suicide, anxiety, addiction, schizophrenia, and more.

NHS Choices

NHS Choices is the UK’s biggest health website which gives users the opportunity to find what policies and processes govern the National Health Service and gain insights into the factors that influence visits to the NHS.

NHS England Statistics

NHS England publishes statistics on a range of health and care subjects. These statistics are used to inform debate, decision-making and research both within government and by the wider community.

NICE - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence aims to improve health and social care through evidence based practice with guidance, advice, quality standards and information services for health, public health and social care with additional resources to help maximise the use of evidence and guidance.

Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics is the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics and is responsible for collecting and publishing statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional and local levels. 

PubMed Central

PubMed Central (PMC) is a service of the US National Library of Medicine that includes over 25 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles and includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Royal College of Nursing

The Royal College of Nursing is the world’s largest nursing union and professional body. They represent more than 435,000 nurses, student nurses, midwives and health care assistants in the UK and internationally, promoting excellence in practice and shaping health policies.

SCIE Social Care Online

Social Care Online is produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence. It is the UK’s largest database of information and research on all aspects of social care and social work

World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health; it leads partners in global health responses. WHO contains country reports and statistics. They also have a section on life-course.

Health Care and Nursing Study Skills

Developing a range of academic skills is an essential part of ensuring success in your studies and future employment. Explore our Study Skills section.