Library Service for Patients
If you are a patient in the hospital or a member of staff you're welcome to use the Library Services for Patients collection. The collection includes fiction and non-fiction books for adults and children, books on CD and DVDs. We also offer reminiscence resources for dementia patients and carers and have a large health and wellbeing collection where you can find out more about your condition.  We also bring books to your bedside through our weekly trolley service.  Please see details on our book trolley service below.  Please contact us if you would like more details. 

What’s available?
  • Fiction: regular and large print
  • Non-fiction including a range of biographies and books on art, history, gardening, travel and more
  • Children’s section - from board books for toddlers to teenage fiction
  • Books on CD and tape (cassette & CD players are also available to borrow)
  • DVDs
  • Music CDs
  • Large print books
  • Quick reads
  • Magazines
  • Mood boosting books including poetry and short stories
  • Health and Wellbeing collection - self-help books for your condition
  • Reminiscence Resources

We deliver! More about our book trolley service and our volunteers

Our team of volunteers run a book trolley service to wards three mornings a week, taking individual requests for books if required. We can also supply collections of books for patient waiting areas/wards. Contact us to find out more about how we can help.
Our volunteers have transformed the Library service for patients beyond belief thanks to their dedication, enthusiasm and hard work.  The volunteers don't just deliver books: they take the time to chat to older patients, brighten the days of younger patients bored stuck in hospital, take care of bookshelves in waiting areas and raise funds for the Hospital Charity through book sales. The volunteers are all so enthusiastic in their desire to make a difference to the people who really matter: our patients. ​