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 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...

The App of the month for December is NICE Guidelines. NICE provide evidence-based  guidance and advice for a wide range of conditions, diseases and public health issues. You can access the NICE guidelines via your mobile device. Download the app and you will be able to refer to any guideline off-line – helpful in meetings or discussing the latest evidence with patients. For a quick step by step guide check the help page on our website. You will be able to: Browse through the NICE guidelines Search for a guideline Read guidelines off-line Bookmark sections that you need to refer to regularly Receive the latest updates and new guidance from NICE NICE Guidance App

NICE is the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. It is a government agency responsible for publishing guidelines relating to health and social care in the UK to ensure that professionals have access to authoritative, evidence-based guidance. NICE provides guidance on a range of conditions and diseases, treatments, procedures and devices as well as support for public health and NHS commissioning. The guidelines may be available in a range of formats including brief summaries, patient-focused guidance, as well as the full and comprehensives guideline including the search strategy and full bibliography. You can browse through the various options or use the simple search facility to find guidelines relevant to your search topic. You can then use the filter options to narrow your search. You can also access NICE guidelines on the go via the mobile app .

The National Library for Health's Guidelines Finder is currently under review for inclusion in the new NHS Evidence interface. This freely accessible service will allow you to search from a number of different guideline producers including the Royal Colleges, NICE and a variety of charitable organisations. A seperate search can be run across international guidelines from America, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Information is also provided on the creation, evaluation and implentation of guidelines. Have your say on the future of this service by completing the following online survey: Click here to complete survey.

The EQUATOR Network is an international initiative that aims to facilitate high standards of reporting in health research publications. The website pulls together all available guidelines for reporting various types of health research studies, guidance on scientific writing and examples of good reporting practice. There is information on the website suitable for medical authors, journal editors and peer reviewers.