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Medicines Complete – get ready for an update

Medicines Complete will be updating their interface soon. You can find out more about the changes here.

Changes will include:
  • More intuitive search for faster access to content
  • Improvements to layout and navigation
  • Dosage Card features
  • MC Calculators
To keep abreast of the updates and ongoing drug changes you can sign-up to the Medicines Complete newsletter.

Medicines Complete is an online reference tool, allowing you to search across a range of medicine reference books.

Keele users – log in via shibboleth using your Keele computer login details
NHS staff – log in via openathens, using your NHS Athens username / password

All users will be able to access the BNF and BNFc. We have purchased extra resources for Keele users as well as NHS staff at UHNM and North Staffs Combined Healthcare such as:

AHFS Drug Information
  • Handbook on Injectable Drugs
  • Kucer’s the Use of Antibiotics
  • Stockley’s Drug Interactions
  • And more…
The books available to you will depend on the subscription of your organisation.


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