Mental Health Resources for Dorset HealthCare and UHD staff and students
We subscribe to a whole range of mental health content and resources, including medical databases and point of care tools that can support users in their research, studies, and daily tasks.
Clinical overviews
ClinicalKey is a point of care tool which includes searchable clinical overviews. The clinical overview provides condition synopsis, plus information about associated terminology, diagnosis, treatment, complications and prognosis, and screening and prevention.
BMJ Best Practice has multiple Psychiatry clinical overviews (in the Specialities section) with links to history and examination steps, diagnostic investigations, further reading, guidelines, clinical calculators and patient information resources.
These clinical overviews can be valuable when you need a detailed summary of a condition that you’re not familiar with or is outside your area of expertise.
Online journals
We also have subscriptions to a wide range of peer-reviewed, world-leading online journals.
eBooks
Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry is available as a convenient eBook; always available and accessible online with your OpenAthens login.
And talking of books, it’s not only the MPGP that can be accessed online! We have a comprehensive collection of eBooks on a wide range of topics. You just need an activated OpenAthens account to access the online collection. If you don’t have an OpenAthens account, you can sign up here, or contact us if you’re not sure.
Current Awareness Bulletins
We also produce monthly bulletins on the latest research, development and studies in multiple areas, including:
CAMHS, Dementia, Learning Disabilities, Mental Disorders, Neurodiversity, OPMH, Psychology, Substance Misuse, Suicide Prevention, Wellbeing, Wellbeing (staff).
Subscribe to a bulletin here.
Topic Guides
We curate and update the Topic Guides on our website so that you can access high quality, reliable resources on one subject from one place.
Topics include:
Dementia, Elderly Medicine, Learning Disabilities, Mental Disorders, Older Peoples’ Mental Health, Speech and Language Therapy, Substance Misuse, Suicide Prevention, Wellbeing.
Click here to view all the Topic Guides and make sure to bookmark your favourites!
And don't forget...
…that we have plenty of good old-fashioned print books to borrow too! If you can’t make it to either of our library sites, then we can send a book to your workplace. Browse the library catalogue to discover what we have in stock.
One last thing!
Get in touch with us on uhd.library@nhs.net or contact us here if you have any questions or want to find out more about our resources and how to access them. And if you haven’t already, please join the library as a member to benefit fully from our services and resources.
The following was removed from the national collection from the 1 July 2025: ProQuest (for resources including AMED, British Nursing Index, Health Research Premium Collection, PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES) , Oxford University Press (for Handbooks and Textbooks collection and Specialist Handbooks).