For more information about our services, please check out the main Library Services pages.

In addition, you can:

• Email us to request a literature search

• Email us to request training

• Search our book & journal catalogue

Public Health England provides a range of services and support to Local Authority Public Health Teams.

Access to the PHE Discovery Service is available with an OpenAthens account as well as access to BrowZine to search for available journals. 

New titles for 2021 include:

- Blood

- Epidemiology

- Medical Care

- Oxford University Press Medicine Journals collection – 122 titles

For more information and details of other PHE resources, please visit their website.

The current pandemic has seen the development of additional COVID-19-related current awareness products, which are available on the PHE KLS Finding the Evidence for Coronavirus website, under the Keeping Up To Date heading (https://phelibrary.koha-ptfs.co.uk/coronavirusinformation/):

• PHE COVID-19 Literature Digest team produces an evidence digest three times per week, which contains evidence on 9 themes (serology and immunology, vaccine development, diagnostics, genomics, epidemiology and clinical, transmission, infection control, treatment, and modelling). To be added to the email distribution list, please send a request to COVID.LitDigest@phe.gov.uk

• PHE Behavioural Science Reference Cell produces a weekly literature report capturing a range of COVID-19-related work in the field of behavioural science.

• PHE Knowledge and Library Service Weekly Care Homes Evidence Digest contains a selection of research about the prevention and control of COVID-19 in home care/care home settings.

• PHE co/secondary infections with COVID-19 literature search results are a small selection of recent papers, categorised by pathogen.

PHE Knowledge and Library Services produces a daily alert containing COVID-19-related links to research and news from government and academia. To receive this email alert, please contact libraries@phe.gov.uk.

Official UK Bodies

Public Health England

NHS England

Independent Organisations

King's Fund - Independent charity working to improve health & health care in England; dedicated Public Health, Primary Care & Commissioning "health topic" pages

NICE (National Institute for Health & Care Excellence) - Responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health, and preventing & treating ill health

NICE Public Health Guidelines List - The complete list of public health guidelines published by NICE

Nuffield Trust - Independent source of evidence-based research & policy analysis for improving health care in the UK

Solutions for Public Health (SPH) - An NHS organisation that works with decision makers across the public and third sectors to improve health and reduce health inequalities

World Health Organisation (WHO) - International organisation providing guidance & data on all global health topics

NICE Evidence Search - Database of NHS-approved policies & guidelines (search results can be filtered to “Public Health” under “Area of Interest”)

NICE Healthcare Databases Advanced Search (HDAS) - Access to 9 databases, including Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, HMIC (NHS OpenAthens password required)

PubMed - More than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from Medline, life science journals, and online books

Social Care Online - UK’s largest database of information relating to social care

GH Journal Search - The major peer-reviewed global health journals in one place, providing authors with a simple tool to discover and choose the 'best fits' for their intended publications

PHE Knowledge and Library Services have a range of current awareness available to help Public Health England staff keep up to date, including topics on mental health, musculoskeletal health, infection, and healthy ageing available.

Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - Subscribe to the Public Health newsfeed. This page also includes useful information, links and resources

HWPH Library Protopage -Public health current awareness page created by library staff at Wexham Park Hospital, which links to current journals & news feeds (free email alert subscription available)

NHS England Email Bulletins - Includes CCG and GP bulletins

Thames Valley & Wessex Public Health Bulletin - Fortnightly bulletin created by NHS libraries in the region

A selection of full-text ejournals available with an NHS OpenAthens password:

A selection of Open Access ejournals:

Local Authority public health staff are eligible for an NHS OpenAthens password.

To register, click here and select "Public health staff in the South West, Thames Valley and Wessex" as your organisation.

Please enter your gov.uk email address when registering.