Healthcare & Social Care Databases
The Library offers access to a range of databases. Most will require an NHS Athens account, which you can sign up for here. If you have forgotten your Athens password, just email library.lynfield@bdct.nhs.uk and we’ll reset it for you.
| AMED Allied and Complementary Medicine (OVID) | Database for allied health professions, complementary medicine. | Requires NHS Athens |
| BMJ Best Practice | Point of care tool offering latest evidence-based information. | Requires NHS Athens |
| BNF | Provides up-to-date information about medicines. | Free to access |
| BNF for Children | Provides up-to-date information about medicines for children. | Free to access |
| BNI British Nursing Index (Proquest) | UK nursing and midwifery database. | Requires NHS Athens |
| Browzine | Provides access to all the Library’s e-journal subscriptions. | Requires NHS Athens |
| CINAHL (EBSCO) | Database for nursing and allied health literature. | Requires NHS Athens |
| ClinicalKey Psychiatry | Psychiatry topic pages, journals, books, videos and photos. | Requires NHS Athens |
| Cochrane Library | High-quality evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. | Free to access |
| EMBASE (OVID) | Database for international biomedical literature. | Requires NHS Athens |
| Emcare (OVID) | Database for nursing and allied health literature. | Requires NHS Athens |
| HMIC (OVID) | Database of healthcare and social care articles & grey literature. | Requires NHS Athens |
| Medline (EBSCO) | Database of life sciences and biomedical information. | Requires NHS Athens |
| Medline (OVID) | Database of life sciences and biomedical information. | Requires NHS Athens |
| Otseeker | Database of occupational therapy literature. | Free to access |
| Oxford Handbooks | Oxford University Press online medical textbooks. | Requires NHS Athens |
| PEDro: The Physiotherapy Evidence Database | Database of physiotherapy literature. | Free to access |
| PROSPERO | International database of prospectively registered systematic reviews. | Free to access |
| PsycINFO (Proquest) | Database of behavioural and social sciences literature. | Requires NHS Athens |
| PubMed | Free search engine for MEDLINE | Free to access |
| Social Care Online | UK’s largest online database of information on all aspects of social work and social care produced by SCIE. | Free to access |
| Social Policy & Practice (OVID) | Social Policy and Practice is a one-stop-shop for research, analysis and discussion of health and social policy. | Requires NHS Athens |
| TRIP Medical Database Pro | Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. | Requires NHS Athens |