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 This #Knowvember explore different resources to support your clinical practice. Quickly get the answer you need for the diagnosis, treatment and management of a wide range of diseases and conditions. Check our clinical decision tools for support to make confident decisions.

BMJ Best Practice

Available to all NHS staff, via NHS OpenAthens login, BMJ Best Practice gives you key, evidence-based information in an easy to read format. The comorbidities manager helps you manage patients with multiple conditions. Use additional tools such as the clinical calculators, BNF and patient leaflets to enhance your patient support. Download the mobile app to get the best evidence on the go, in meetings and at ward rounds.

Clinical Key

Find Clinical Overviews of a myriad of diseases and conditions on Clinical Key. Quickly search by topic or browse the A-Z list to get pinpoint information for diagnosis, treatment, management and more to give you the answers you need. You can also access clinical calculators and download or print patient leaflets as well as search across the guidelines, journals and ebooks collections. Download the app to get all this information on the go.

Clinical key is available to UHNM staff via NHS OpenAthens username.

Clinical Knowledge Summaries

Aimed at primary care professionals the Clinical Knowledge Summaries present an easy to read evidence-based summary of a plethora of healthcare conditions. The presentation includes background information, diagnosis, treatment, prescribing, ongoing management and more as well as references. Clinical Knowledge Summaries are freely available on the Internet.

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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. Start with these tutorials…

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