Use the resources on this page to locate subject headings for the item you are cataloguing.
These schedules may be freely used by any health care library as long as the source is acknowledged as:
“Wessex Classification and Indexes Oversight Working Group”
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All Wessex MeSH subject headings can now be found on a searchable thesaurus.
Subheadings and document types are available in separate listings.
See the search guide for an explanation on how to use the thesaurus.
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The following list of terms have been created to cater for UK-specific requirements that are not covered by the normal MeSH subject headings.
Please note that all these have been coded as a 650 subject heading with the second indicator of 4 (denoting other source of information) rather than a 2 (denoting agreed upon MeSH headings).
If one of these headings isn’t available when you search for it on V-smart, please email the service desk with the subject line “SWIMS cataloguing – non-MeSH term missing from catalogue”.
- Alexander technique
- Ambulance service
- Ancillary staff
- Asexuality
- Avon
- Basingstoke
- Bath
- Bedfordshire
- Berkshire
- Bournemouth
- Boys
- Bridgewater
- Bristol
- Clwyd
- Commission for patient and public involvement in health
- Community Health Councils
- Cornwall
- Crossdressing
- Disabled Persons Abuse
- Dorset
- Family Health Service Authorities
- Family Practitioner Committees
- General Medical Council
- Girls
- Glasgow
- Graphic Novel [Publication Type]
- Hampshire
- Health authorities
- Health Service Commissioner
- Hormone Therapy (Gender)
- Isle of Wight
- Isles of Scilly
- Kent
- Learning Disability
- Leicestershire
- Marlborough
- Middlesex
- Midwives
- National Health Service
- Occupational health services
- Neuropathology
- New Forest
- Non-Binary Persons
- North West England
- Northamptonshire
- Nottingham
- Offenders
- Offenders, Mentally disordered
- Offenders, Young
- Plymouth
- Portsmouth
- Practice Nurse
- Primary Care Trusts
- Probation
- Public Health Laboratory Service
- Quantitative research
- Reflective learning
- Regional health authorities
- Salisbury
- Same-Sex Marriage
- Self-help
- Service users
- Somerset
- South East England
- South West England
- Southampton
- Study Skills
- Surrey
- Taunton
- Tavistock
- Wellbeing
- Wessex
- Wiltshire
- Winchester
- Wiveliscombe
- Yeovil
- York
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See the document below for help on utilising Wessex subjects.