{"id":110,"date":"2012-02-03T14:18:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T14:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/library\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:14:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:14:55","slug":"membership-eligibility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/library\/about-us\/access\/join-the-library\/membership-eligibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Membership eligibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford Health Libraries provides a professional library and information service to all staff employed by the following organisations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust (includes staff on secondment or holding an honorary contract and those undertaking Trust provided courses)<\/li>\n<li>Oxford University Department of Psychiatry (based at Warneford Hospital)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scwcsu.nhs.uk\/\">South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/south\/\">NHS England South (South Central)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordshire.gov.uk\/cms\/content\/oxfordshire-public-health\">Public Health Staff -Oxford<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buckscc.gov.uk\/healthy-living\/buckinghamshire-health-and-wellbeing-board\/\">Public Health Staff \u2013 Aylesbury<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Membership Categories<\/h2>\n<p>There are 5 main categories of library membership.<\/p>\n<details class=\"nhsuk-details\">\n                    <summary class=\"nhsuk-details__summary\">\n                        <span class=\"nhsuk-details__summary-text\">Core members (A)<\/span>\n                    <\/summary>\n                    <div class=\"nhsuk-details__text\">\n<p>Staff employed by, or working under contract for, the above organisations are entitled to access the full range of services offered by the library. This includes agency staff working for the above organisations and any courses for which there is an existing Service Level Agreement (and in accordance with the terms of the relevant SLA). Most services are provided free of charge (unless otherwise agreed in a SLA) and except as outlined in the table of charges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                <\/details>\n<details class=\"nhsuk-details\">\n                    <summary class=\"nhsuk-details__summary\">\n                        <span class=\"nhsuk-details__summary-text\">Partner members (B)<\/span>\n                    <\/summary>\n                    <div class=\"nhsuk-details__text\">\n<p>Members in this category include employees of other NHS organisations within HETV or organisations working in partnership with the NHS (eg hospice staff), clinical attachments and retired NHS staff. Members in this category have free reference access to the libraries. Members with a valid SWIMS library membership number may also borrow books free of charge. Other services are available at an additional charge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                <\/details>\n<details class=\"nhsuk-details\">\n                    <summary class=\"nhsuk-details__summary\">\n                        <span class=\"nhsuk-details__summary-text\">Private partner members (C)<\/span>\n                    <\/summary>\n                    <div class=\"nhsuk-details__text\">\n<p>Includes staff of private charitable or commercial hospitals, independent treatment centres and private practitioners. Members in this category may use the library for reference purposes free of charge. Other services are available at an additional charge and payment of an annual membership fee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                <\/details>\n<details class=\"nhsuk-details\">\n                    <summary class=\"nhsuk-details__summary\">\n                        <span class=\"nhsuk-details__summary-text\">Students on clinical placement or pre-registration students (D)<\/span>\n                    <\/summary>\n                    <div class=\"nhsuk-details__text\">\n<p>Members in this category will usually be based at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust , <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scwcsu.nhs.uk\/\">South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit ,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/south\/\">NHS England South (South Central)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordshire.gov.uk\/cms\/content\/oxfordshire-public-health\">Public Health\u00a0-Oxford CC<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buckscc.gov.uk\/healthy-living\/buckinghamshire-health-and-wellbeing-board\/\">Public Health-Bucks CC<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0but may be based at other NHS organisations within HETV. Student members may use the library, borrow books and copy journals\u00a0(according to copyright regulations) free of charge for the duration of their placement. They will be referred to their university library for other services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                <\/details>\n<details class=\"nhsuk-details\">\n                    <summary class=\"nhsuk-details__summary\">\n                        <span class=\"nhsuk-details__summary-text\">External members (E)<\/span>\n                    <\/summary>\n                    <div class=\"nhsuk-details__text\">\n<p>Includes members of the public, patients and their carers, students not on placement, plus any groups not included above. Members in this category may use the library for reference purposes without charge. An annual membership fee will apply for members wishing to access other services including book loans. Other services are available at an additional charge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n                <\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford Health Libraries provides a professional library and information service to all staff employed by the following organisations: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust (includes staff on secondment or holding an honorary contract and those undertaking Trust provided courses) Oxford University Department of Psychiatry (based at Warneford Hospital) South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit NHS <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/library\/about-us\/access\/join-the-library\/membership-eligibility\/\">&#8230; Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":50,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204988,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions\/204988"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}