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Providing Access to the Evidence: supporting #amilliondecisions

Healthcare workers make over a million decisions every day, impacting on patients’ lives.

How can we help?
Health decisions are based on a number of factors including the available research evidence.
The 4 factors to consider in evidence-based practice

The Health Library purchases a range of good quality online resources and provides you with access to those resources to support your decision-making.

Get Access:
Register for an NHS Athens username / password so that you can access our databases and full-text resources. We manage Athens access locally and help you to maintain your username.

Find the Evidence
You can access bibliographic databases, clinical search engines, point of care tools, full-text ejournals and ebooks to help you to identify the best evidence. You’ll find a full list of resources on our healthcare resources page.









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