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Updated & Improved Healthcare Resources page

The Healthcare Resources page for our NHS users has been updated to help you to find the type of information you need quickly.

The resources are split up under a number of headings and new resources have been included:

NICE Resources
NICE have developed a new range of different resources:
  • NHS Evidence is now called Evidence Search
  • Clinical Knowledge Summaries
  • Medicines Information and awareness service
  • Evidence Updates

NHS Athens Resources
The links for the NHS Athens tools, such as ejournals, ebooks and databases have been improved.

NHS Athens Help
There is a new section where you can find links to all our Athens help resources such as the online guide and etutorial.

Other Sections
The resources available in the Reviews and Reports section have been updated.

See the Healthcare Resources page for more details.

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