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  Have you been following our blog posts for #KNOWvember23? Here’s what you may have learnt:   The 5 essential steps to get the best evidence to improve patient care   The critical steps to get access to NHS resources for NHS staff   Opportunities to learn from others and share your own case reports   We have Hot Topics! to give you key information about conditions and diseases   You can make confident clinical decisions with the best evidence   You shouldn’t miss out – stay up-to-date with the latest evidence   How to get ahead in your next specialty   How to get ahead with your exam revision   Which key resources can you use to get to the NHS full-text quickly ?   What must have resources can you use to search for guidelines and procedur es?   How to communicate better with your patients for better healthcare outcomes   How the Health Library can help you to develop your digital skills ?   Key resources for foundat...

 Digital skills are an important aspect of daily and modern work life and particularly impact on healthcare delivery and healthcare workers ongoing professional development. The Health Library offers you a number of opportunities to support your digital skills development. Which resources may help? Health Library Information Skills eTutorials Our online tutorials are designed to give you the basics in information skills. These skills help you to identify your information needs, develop strategies to search for that information, use the best resources to obtain that information, then appraise and reference your results and communicate your findings. You can complete presentations, interactive tutorials and videos, in your own time, at your own pace. Training delivered by the Health Library To develop your skills further or if you need more tailored support book on one of our training courses. Our training team offer 3 specific courses: NHS Knowledge and Library Hub ...

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. BMJ Best Practice BMJ Best Practice is a clinical decision support tool, offering evidence-based information on a wide range of conditions and diseases. Browse for patient leaflets by selecting this 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 access to evidence-based content. Select the Patient Educatio...

 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-bas...

 We recognise that NHS staff need easy, quick access to online full-text resources. You can access a wealth of resources and it is important to be able to access them efficiently so that you can apply improved knowledge and develop patient care. Ensure you use key resources to make sure you can get to full-text content quickly. Start by checking these resources: NHS OpenAthens username Your NHS OpenAthens username unlocks full-text from a wide range of online resources. Most of our subscribed resources can be access by the single OpenAthens username. Register for your NHS OpenAthens username - step-by-step instructions NHS Knowledge and Library Hub You can search the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub for full-text content. The Hub includes a wide range of NHS-subscribed resources, including articles, journals, databases and ebooks. You can execute a search across multiple resources. The results list will indicate the available full-text options, including requesting article...

 This #KNOWvember check out the resources available to help you to succeed in your exams and progress your career. Medical Exam Revision Collection Borrow from our special medical exam revision collection . There are a wide range of exams with revision support in different formats. Browse the collection and borrow the titles that most fit your needs. Medical Masterclass This online exam support resource will help you to prepare for all three parts of the MRCP(UK) examination. This is only available to UHNM staff and requires an individual username / password. Please contact the Health Library at County to get your login details, email library@uhnm.nhs.uk. New! NEJM Knowledge Plus Any post-graduate doctors in training at UHNM can request access to the new exam tool NEJM Knowledge Plus . Here you can access question banks and assessment tools to help you to prepare for your exams. Please request an individual username from Health Library at County at library@uhnm.nhs.u...

 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. 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 st...