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Free Library Books at Cardiff Hospitals - Library services

Last updated: 30/03/2026
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What we do

Patients, visitors and staff at Cardiff’s hospitals can enjoy free, round-the-clock access to books, thanks to a partnership between Cardiff Hubs and Libraries and Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.
Four library vending machines are available at:

University Hospital of Wales (concourse)
Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital (near the café)
University Hospital Llandough (Outpatients reception)
University Hospital Llandough (Hospital Restaurant)

The machines are stocked with a wide range of fiction, non-fiction, and health and wellbeing titles—including books from the Reading Well Books on Prescription scheme, recommended by health experts and people with lived experience.

Who do we support

Anyone with a Cardiff Library card can borrow a book for free, 24 hours a day. Books can be returned to the vending machine they were borrowed from, or to any Cardiff hub or library.

If you need assistance using the machines at University Hospital Llandough, staff and volunteers are available to help at the Information and Support Centre in the Plaza (Monday to Friday, 9am–3pm). For help at UHW, visit the Macmillan Information and Support Centre in the concourse (Monday to Friday, 9am–3pm).

This service is for people of all ages.

Is there a charge to use this service?

No

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We will take reasonable steps to ensure the information within the website is as accurate as possible. We cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of this information. The contributors themselves maintain their own information and they welcome feedback about the accuracy of the information they provide. Those accessing it are advised to take reasonable steps to consider its content before acting upon it. This could include seeking professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the information within our website.

Please note that the results found when searching in English or Welsh on the English and Welsh sides of the website (www.dewis.wales or www.dewis.cymru) will sometimes differ. Providers can (subject to rules around language standards that apply to some provision) choose to enter their information in English only, in Welsh only, or bilingually. Whilst we try to use the technology within the site to limit the impact of their choice, both terminology and the structure of the languages mean that differences in the results produced is sometimes inevitable.

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links are provided for your information only and should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources. We reserve the right to reject or remove links to any website if we find the site content inappropriate.

For more information please refer to the full terms and conditions.