About Us

A little bit of background...

The Southport & Ormskirk Hospital Trust Library & Knowledge Service provides library and information services to all NHS staff and placement students across Southport and Ormskirk. Our aim is to deliver high quality information to support patient care, education and learning, service development, quality and productivity and research activity.

We have service points at:

The Hanley Library , Southport Hospital (staffed)
Open Monday - Friday, 08:30 - 16:30

The Sanderson Library Resource Room, Ormskirk Hospital (staffed part-time/self service available)
Open Monday - Friday, 08:30 - 16:30

24hr access to both service points is available on request.

We provide the following services:

Enquiry and Literature Searches
We offer a specialised enquiry and literature search service accessible by phone, email, fax or in person. Contact us with details of the information you need and we will do the searching for you.

Information Skills Training
A range of information skills sessions are available through our rolling programme, or to individuals or small groups in their workplace.

Current Awareness
We provide regular bulletins and alerts on the latest developments in healthcare. We can also set up tailored alerts for your team or project to minimise information overload and deliver the latest information targeted to your specific information needs.

Library Resources
Our resources collection covers all aspects of health from acute to primary care, mental health, public health, health management and research. In our two libraries across Southport and Ormskirk we hold a wide variety of books, journals, health education resources and items of IT equipment, all available for loan and searchable on our online catalogue. Free access to ejournals, ebooks, biomedical databases and an interlibrary loan service is also availabe to NHS staff.

What Our Library Users Are Saying...

"Apprentices now have greater access to resources, not only at College or University but in the workplace. The benefits are not solely logistical; the resources and services available to them via the Library & Knowledge Service are current, relevant and varied."

"The library provided me with the evidence base to support a service development of developing a early discharge detox policy. This has improved patient clinical outcomes. This also reduces length of stay and re-attendance at A&E."

"Literature searches carried out by the library staff assisted in the development of a new education program for unregistered staff in response to the Francis report."

"The library carried out a literature search and provided my team with a wealth of relevant information from a variety of different sources that we were able to use within our poster presentation."

"The information I receive has a positive impact in my role as a Non-Executive Director. Over the past year in post I have found the library alerting service to be an invaluable resource it is a great way to be kept informed via the on-line platform that I can access at times to suit."