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 The Oxford Medicine Online ebook collection, subscribed to by NHS England, has been extended to include the Specialist Handbook series. This collection is available to all NHS staff via your NHS OpenAthens username. Link to the collection via our eBooks page . The list of new titles include the following: A Resuscitation Room Guide Addiction Medicine Adult Congenital Heart Disease Advanced Respiratory Critical Care Anaesthesia for Emergency Care Applied Medicine and Surgery in Dentistry Burns (OSH Surgery) Cardiac Anaesthesia Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Intervention Cardiac Electrophysiology and Catheter Ablation Cardiothoracic Critical Care Cardiothoracic Surgery Cardiovascular Computed Tomography Cardiovascular Imaging Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Colorectal Surgery Day Case Surgery Dementia - from advanced disease to bereavement Echocardiography End of Life Care in the ICU - from advanced disease to bereavement Epilepsy Fetal Cardio...

 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...

 NHS staff have access to another 18 titles from the Oxford Medicine collection. These include titles to support training and exam revision. The titles are: Advanced Training In Anaesthesia Deconstructing the OSCE: Strategies for OSCE Success Drugs in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Drugs in Neurology Drugs in Palliative Care Drugs in Psychiatry Essential Revision Notes for the Cardiology KBA Oxford Clinical Guidelines: Newly Qualified Doctors Oxford Handbook of Head and Neck Anatomy        Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethics and Law Oxford Professional Practice: Handbook of Medical Leadership and Management Oxford Professional Practice: Handbook of Patient Safety SBAs for the Oral and Maxilliofacial Surgery FRCS Training In Anaesthesia Training in Medicine Training in Ophthamology Viva Training in ENT: Preparation for the FRCS (ORL-HNS) Vivas for the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery FRCS     You can access the titles from the NHS Knowledge an...

  No time to visit the Health Library to collect books? That’s OK! We’ve got a great range of online titles.   We’ve just updated our eBooks web page, listing the collections that you can access and where you can find them:   NHS Knowledge and Library Hub – wide range of ebooks from the NHS core content purchased collections.   Library search – some ebook titles are available to NHS members via our library catalogue.    Oxford Medicine Online – key collection of essential handbooks from the NHS core content collection; also available via the Hub and Library Search.   Clinical Key ebooks – range of specialty texts for UHNM staff only.   Kortext NHS ebook collection – a wide spread of topics are covered by this NHS core content collection, including management, sustainability and wellbeing; also available via the Hub.   Medical Exam Revision collection – whilst most of these books are in print format, some are also available as ebooks...

 The proposed changes to the Oxford Academic platform previously reported have been delayed until the 19th July.

  Oxford University Press’s (OUP) major research book collections will move to the  Oxford Academic  platform . This means that that books from our  Oxford collections  will be available alongside journals in a single place for the first time. It is expected that content will move 14th July. Once this content has moved to  Oxford Academic , the current product sites will still be accessible for a period of dual running. During this time, we encourage you to explore and familiarize yourself with Oxford Academic before redirects go into place on July 20th. After this date, the content will no longer be available on the current product sites. There may be some disruption during the implementation, 14th to 20th July, please contact the library service if you encounter any problems.

  Nurses working in the NHS can access a range of resources to help them find the most up-to-date evidence. Get the best evidence to: Support confident decisions Promote good practice Reflect on for your revalidation Promote your professional development Contribute to good patient care Key Resources for Nurses Oxford Medicine Online for Nurses : Get essential texts to support nursing practice across a wide range of specialties Royal Marsden Manual Online for Nurses : use this easy to read format for advice and support about nursing procedures Journals for Nurses : find out what key nursing journals you can access Stay up-to-date with the latest nursing journals published by the RCN : register for updates on research and professional development sent straight to your inbox For links to more resources please see our NHS Resources web page . How to log in to get full-text access You will need to log in using your NHS OpenAthens username to access full-text. You can: ...

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...

  Oxford Medicine Online is an interconnected collection of online medical resources which cover every stage in a medical career. The site delivers the highest quality Oxford content while meeting the requirements of the busy student, doctor, or health professional working in a digital world. Many of these titles have earned the epithet of 'the bible of' in their respective subject areas. With online only videos, a robust updating program, self-testing functionality, downloadable images and much more - Oxford Medicine Online is a must for anyone needing authoritative information quickly. Functionality includes: Cross-search titles to find the information you need quickly Online-only features include videos and self-testing functionality Links to references and further reading  Images and figures can be downloaded to  PowerPoint, perfect for giving presentations Personalization options allow users to save books, annotations, chapters, and searches Mobile optimized New a...

 NHS / HEE have purchased a selection of online ebook titles from the Oxford Medicine Online collection . There are over 130 titles all together, including: Emergencies in... series Oxford Handbooks in Nursing Oxford Medical Handbooks Oxford Textbooks in... series Oxford Textbook of Medicine These are authoritative texts which include key information, guidance and recommendations on a wide range of specialties. Now available online so you don't have to wait in line for a print version. To access: All these titles are available to NHS staff via your NHS OpenAthens username. Go to the Oxford Medicine Online collection , use the institution log in option, select institution "NHS in England" and enter your NHS OpenAthens login details. You can view all the books in the collection by choosing the option "Browse all titles in your subscription" from the left-hand panel. You'll find a link to the collection along with instructions on our ebooks page . Please note t...