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 Your NHS OpenAthens username gives you access to some great resources, specially selected to help you in your work and career development. These resources are not freely available on the Internet but you can get easy access with your NHS OpenAthens username. When you need… Confirmation of guidelines for diagnosis and treatment Try… BMJ Best Practice – key information for a wide range of conditions and diseases Clinical Key [UHNM only]   – articles, clinical summaries and ebooks; accessible via an easy to use clinical search engine Oxford Medicine Online – great set of renowned online handbooks, providing information for all healthcare professions When you need… To complete a literature search Try… HDAS (including Medline, Amed, CINAHL, PsychInfo, Emcare and Embase) –the HDAS interface offers a comprehensive set of features to allow you to search key healthcare databases   When you need… Full-Text Access Try… Library Search – search our library...

 Make informed, confident clinical decisions with support from Clinical Key. Clinical Key is a clinical search engine giving you access to a wide range of full-text, evidence-based, up-to-date information. Clinical Key is provided by the Library Service for staff at UHNM. Point of Care Use the smart search engine to quickly access clinical overviews, NICE guidelines and BNF / BNFc to deliver point of care diagnosis, treatment and after care for your patients. Download the mobile app so that you have quick answers to clinical questions to support ward rounds and case meetings. Professional Development Take advantage of the advanced features to continue your professional development. Use Clinical Key to: Search the latest published research Save and share articles Set up alerts on key journals Create presentations Earn CME credit How to Access Clinical Key is available to UHMN staff, via NHS OpenAthens login Go to Clinical Key Log in with you NHS OpenAthens username A...

If you missed any of our Tweets or Facebook posts during Health Information week, here are the highlights: Help your patients discover good quality health information; helping them stay healthy, manage illnesses effectively, and accomplish a better quality of life. Everyone benefits from good quality health information. Video and poster: Don't know what to believe? Think: Who? What? Where? Don't know what to believe? Think .. Who? What? Where? poster. Leaflet to support your patients to find the right information online . We put together this leaflet. The leaflet is available in the patient information library on the UHNM intranet.  Searching for good quality health information using the internet  leaflet Mood lifting books - ten books chosen by NHS staff for you to read to uplift your mood.  The books are available at Health Library at County and can be requested for collection from either Health Library at Royal Stoke or Health Library at County. Check out other online...

 Congratulations to the Hearing and Balance Clinic @UHNM_NHS you have won this prize!! Enjoy! The patient information leaflets you created were fantastic 😀 Thank you our judges Becci (PALS),  Emily (Comms), Liz @CountyHealthLib and Lindsay @CECLibrary and those who entered 👏 #HIW2021

 We have now published 75 issues of the Covid-19 Evidence Bulletin . Get the latest published research concerning covid-19 and: Infection control Diagnosis / prognosis Treatment Further resources It is an easy-to-read format and includes links to articles.  To view the latest issues check our website . To receive a copy of the bulletin in your inbox please contact Mathew Stone, mathew.stone@uhnm.nhs.uk You can find more resources on covid-19 / coronavirus from our subject page . Check here for: Public health information Shared practice Topic summaries Overviews & guidelines Literature searching help Statistics Training

  Oxford Medicine Online is an interconnected collection of online medical resources which cover every stage in a medical career. The site delivers the highest quality Oxford content while meeting the requirements of the busy student, doctor, or health professional working in a digital world. Many of these titles have earned the epithet of 'the bible of' in their respective subject areas. With online only videos, a robust updating program, self-testing functionality, downloadable images and much more - Oxford Medicine Online is a must for anyone needing authoritative information quickly. Functionality includes: Cross-search titles to find the information you need quickly Online-only features include videos and self-testing functionality Links to references and further reading  Images and figures can be downloaded to  PowerPoint, perfect for giving presentations Personalization options allow users to save books, annotations, chapters, and searches Mobile optimized New a...

News from NICE  "NICE would like to invite you to contribute to an important research project to understand views and experiences of NICE, looking at how we operate, our work and resources and our strategic ambitions.  We want to ensure that all of our users and audiences are represented in the research. We’d also really appreciate it if you could forward this email to colleagues and peers in your professional network, to ask if they could also support this work.  The results will be presented to our Board and by sharing your views you will play an important part in shaping the work we do. To take part, we ask that you complete  this short survey , which should take approximately 10 minutes, by  Friday 16 th  July 2021.   Survey link:   https://populuslive.online-host.solutions/ASP/P018813/loginP2.asp?study=P2_9 The survey is being managed by an independent research company called Yonder. All responses will remain anonymous in any reporting. ...