Scottish Health Management Library

'Giving healthcare professionals the information they need'

The Health Management Library is a free national information resource for all staff working in the NHS in Scotland. The library holds Scotland's most comprehensive and extensive collection of information on management and related subjects.

The Health Management Library gives health care professionals access too:-

  • Fast, efficient enquiry and research service. Our qualified and experienced staff will rapidly retrieve and locate information for you.
  • In-depth literature searches customised to meet your needs
  • Postal loans service gives you access to a wealth of books, pamphlets and reports. The library holds over13,000 books, reports and pamphlets
  • Access to our in-house database, containing over 40,000 current and retrospective indexed journal articles and abstracts.
  • Postal Photocopying services, no need to come in and use the library
  • Collection of searchable databases including

HMIC - Health Management Information Consortium

CINAHL - Cumulative Index Nursing and Allied Health

IMID - Institute of Management International Databases

Healthstar - Bibliographic database from the National library of Medicine and the American

Hospital Association

Cochrane Library

CIPD - Chartered Institute of Personnel Development

Croner Health Service Manager

National Research Register

  • Current Awareness Service - At a glance keep up to date with your continuous professional development. This monthly bulletin lists a selection of new publications and a selection of up to date journal articles added to the libraries extensive database. The Current Awareness Bulletin can be emailed or posted.
  • Access to Scottish Health Information Network
  • Tailor made reading lists to suit training events

Healthcare professionals must ensure that decisions made and advice given is based on the best information available, the health Management Library is striving to ensure that busy managers within the NHS in Scotland have access to this information. If you require information on clinical governance or waiting lists, advice on employment law, guidance on developing multidisciplinary teams, even a query about NHS expenditure or the current government publications make the Health Management Library your first point of reference.

Contact Details

For more information or to access any of the services available please contact the Library team at:

Website: www.healthmanagementonline.co.uk
Email: library@shsc.csa.scot.nhs.uk
Tel: 0131 275 7760

By Personal Visit Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 5:00pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5:00pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5:00pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5:00pm
Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm

For membership details for non-NHS employees and information on corporate subscriptions, please contact the Health Management Library team.

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