Key Features: Established in 1864 Full contact details of over 120,000 medical practitioners as well as over 15,000 NHS and independent healthcare establishments Also available in CD-Rom The ONLY directory of its kind Containing professional profiles of over 120,000 registered medical practitioners in the UK, as well as a detailed listing of over 15,000 healthcare organisations, The Medical Directory is the most comprehensive publication on healthcare in the UK. You can search for doctors by name, geographical location, qualification, speciality and job title among other criteria. You can also search for organisations by name, type, department, geographical area and number of beds.

The collections of the Advocates Library, with the exception of its legal books and manuscripts, were given by the Advocates to the National Library of Scotland in 1925.