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 Are you an early career healthcare professional? Do you move around to different departments? Want to impress your colleagues with your up-to-date knowledge? Try these resources for good quality, evidence-based topic overviews.

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Oxford Medicine Online

Want to quickly refresh your knowledge of key guidelines and recommendations for a topic or specialty? Get the Oxford Handbooks from the Oxford Medicine Online collection. This collection includes over 130 handbooks and textbooks. Read online or try searching the book to get straight to the information you need. Books are available to support doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.

The NHS Oxford Medicine Online collection is available to all NHS staff via NHS OpenAthens login.

Clinical Key

Quickly access clinical topics on Clinical Key for an overview of key diseases and conditions. You can search via the clinical search engine or browse through the A-Z list of topic titles. Clinical Key is available to UHNM staff via NHS OpenAthens username and password.

Library Search

We hold a wealth of content in our libraries, including key texts for various specialties, diseases and healthcare topics. To find out if we have the book for you search on our catalogue LibrarySearch. Books are available in print – you'll need to be a library member to borrow. Books are also available online – you'll need to log in to read them; check the instructions.

Access resources

The resources we recommend may be freely available online, require a personal login or need an NHS OpenAthens username for full-text access. You will find links to all our resources on our NHS resources web page.

Learn more…

Find out about more resources available to NHS staff by completing our etutorial Finding NHS Resources.

Complete our online tutorials, book a training session or take a look at our Information Skills for Health blog to learn more about accessing resources and completing an information search. Try these…

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