Must have resources to search for guidelines and procedures

Guidelines and procedures offer NHS staff evidence-based recommendations for patient care and work practices.

You can look for the latest evidence by searching the following resources.

NHS Knowledge & Library Hub

Search the Hub to search across hundreds of different NHS-based resources for guidelines and recommendations. Use the filters on the left-hand-side to focus your search results.

The Hub is available in a separate instance for each of our supported NHS organisations. Check the NHS resources page for your version:

NHS Resources for UHNM ; NHS Resources for North Staffs Combined Healthcare ; NHS Resources for GPs and the ICB.

NICE Guidelines

You can find a wealth of guidance on the NICE guidance website. This includes independently developed evidence-based recommendations. Browse the guidance by condition or disease or search across the website for the information you need.

Royal Marsden Manual Online

NHS nurses can access up-to-date, evidence-based procedures to support their work from the RoyalMarsden Manual Online. This key text provides easy access to procedures, illustrations and practical advice for all nursing roles. This resource is available to all NHS staff via NHS OpenAthens login.

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.

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Cancer resources from Clinical Key – supporting cancer awareness

In recognition of the challenges facing oncology care Clinical Key have put together toolkits to support our clinicians in their search for good quality evidence and to raise awareness in factors affecting cancer diagnosis. Clinical Key is available to UHNM members of staff via their NHS OpenAthens username . It might be useful if you login to Clinical Key first before trying to access the content in the toolkits. Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (March) Find out in your Clinical Key colorectal cancer toolkit more colorectal cancer facts for social media, journals articles, free infographic and other relevant content . No Smoking Day (11 th March) On N o S moking day help to raise awareness of the impact of smoking on lung cancer cases. Check out the lung cancer toolkit created by Clinical Key for articles and free resources. Prostate Cancer Day (28 th March) Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed...

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