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Webinar: BMJ Best Practice and state-of-the-art care for Sepsis in Adults Wednesday 29th April 2026, 2-3pm Improve sepsis outcomes for adult patients by joining our expert speakers, Dr Kieran Walsh (BMJ Clinical Director) and Professor Matt Morgan (Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Cardiff), for a focused webinar.  This session will guide you through practical strategies for leveraging BMJ Best Practice to provide outstanding care and address common clinical challenges in sepsis management. Key Topics : Managing comorbidities, overcoming implementation challenges, and avoiding clinical pitfalls. Who : Ideal for all NHS Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists and Students. Takeaway : Practical strategies for evidence-based care at the bedside. Please register via Microsoft Teams

Upcoming access system upgrade to BMJ Best Practice Message from BMJ regarding BMJ Best Practice === We are writing to notify you of a significant upgrade that is underway to replace the BMJ Best Practice access system. We will be implementing this necessary system upgrade between November 2023 and January 2024. We do not anticipate any downtime of our service while this upgrade takes place. Why are we making these changes? To ensure the reliability and stability of our service and to support future access enhancements.     What does this mean for you?   You will be logged out of BMJ Best Practice -  When the switch to the new system happens, you will be logged out of the BMJ Best Practice app and website. You will be able to log back in again immediately. Check your login details -  You will notice messages alerting you that you will be logged out of the app. Please use the link provided to check your details are up to date. This will ensure...

 BMJ Best Practice is an essential tool for junior doctors and students on placement. Get up-to-date, evidence-based support to help you to make confident clinical decisions. Complete our new SWAY presentation, Using BMJ Best Practice , to learn all the basics about BMJ Best Practice. Using BMJ Best Practice Get the most up-to-date, best evidence to support your clinical decisions: get BMJ Best Practice. Go to this Sway

  You can help your patients understand their condition better and improve their own outcomes by providing, or pointing them to, good quality patient information. Whether you want to create your own bespoke patient information or find something ready-made, take a look at the options below. Main resources to help you to find patient information: BMJ Best Practice   BMJ Best Practice is a clinical decision support tool, offering evidence-based information on a wide range of conditions and diseases. Select the Patient Leaflets option from the top menu bar. You can then either browse the A-Z list or search for the condition. Once presented with the information you can either print it out or download it as a PDF file. BMJ Best Practice is available to all NHS staff. Log in with your NHS OpenAthens username. Clinical Key (UHNM staff only)   Clinical Key is a clinical search engine, covering a wide range of full-text sources. It offers you quick and easy acces...

Do you want to make confident clinical decisions? Moving into a new clinical area and need a quick refresher of the latest evidence and recommended guidelines? We have the tools to help you. BMJ Best Practice This is an essential evidence-based, clinical decision support tool to help you make confident decisions. It is available to all NHS OpenAthens users. You can search for a wide range of conditions, and access overviews, theory, diagnosis, treatment and management as well as calculators, patient leaflets and videos. Clinical Key You can use this specialist clinical search engine to quickly find clinical overviews, calculators and guidelines to support your clinical decisions. Complete more in-depth searching for full-text articles, topic summaries, videos and ebooks. Clinical Key is available to UHNM staff via OpenAthens. Clinical Knowledge Summaries NHS staff working in primary care can browse the easy-to-read, evidence-based, best practice recommendations for condit...

The BMJ Best Practice evidence-based reference tool is available to all NHS staff. You can access up-to-date guidelines and recommendations for a range of conditions and diseases, including a recent topic on coronavirus / covid-19. You can get information on theory, diagnosis, screening, treatment, follow-up and more. Important updates are presented on the home page. Calculators, patient leaflets, images and videos are also available within the tool. An app is available for information on the go. To access BMJ Best Practice you will need to login with your NHS OpenAthens username, then create a BMJ account so that your preferences can be stored. For more help see the BMJ Best Practice help page on our website.

BMJ Best Practice is a trusted clinical decision support tool which provides healthcare professionals with access to the latest relevant clinical information when making diagnosis and treatment decisions. BMJ Best Practice includes: A modern, fresh user interface and navigation Enhanced differential diagnosis and treatment algorithms Videos covering the most common clinical procedures Improved page designs with quick links to increase speed to answer More than 250 integrated medical calculators Patient discussions and nearly 400 patient leaflets The latest evidence and Cochrane Clinical Answers Plus an award-winning app that can be used offline, ensuring that you always have the information you need, when you need it. To access BMJ Best Practice: BMJ Best Practice is available as part of the national NHS Core Content. Go to the Healthcare Resources page on our website and click the BMJ Best Practice link . Log in with your NHS OpenAthens username / password...