Information Skills for Health

 BMJ Best Practice have published a new topic:  Postpartum Psychosis . Incorporating the most recent evidence-based research and clinical guidelines, this newly published BMJ Best Practice topic gives guidance on diagnosis and management of postpartum psychosis, a psychiatric emergency which requires rapid specialist assessment to ensure the safety of both mother and baby. BMJ Best Practice is available to ALL NHS staff. Please login with your NHS OpenAthens username . Go to our help page for more guidance in using BMJ Best Practice .

  Hantavirus is in the news at the moment following an outbreak on a cruise ship. The BMJ Best Practice topic on the subject is comprehensive but has also been updated with important information relating to the current situation.

 Get the best evidence for a range of conditions and disease by searching the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub and limiting the results to BMJ Best Practice. Use the new BMJ Best Practice filter.   You can select from a wide range of filters to focus your search results, such as full-text, peer reviewed, publication date, major subject heading, publisher and content provider. Now added to this list is BMJ Best Practice. This gives you an easy way to view BMJ Best Practice content. When you have your search results, simply select the All filters button under the search box, then tick the BMJ Best Practice option.   Go to your Hub Start searching now - go to our NHS K&L Hub page – make sure you select the correct instance of the Hub for the organisation you work for. More help For more help using the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: Complete our etutorial Knowledge and Library Hub tutorial Arrange a training session with our training team Go to our Knowledge and Library Hub...

 All NHS staff can access BMJ Best Practice, a key evidence-based tool to support patient care. You'll need to log in with your NHS OpenAthens username. Check out the following topics, which cover presentation, testing, differential diagnosis and management of common winter conditions: Influenza infection Common cold Respiratory syncytial virus infection Community acquired pneumonia Acute exacerbation of COPD Download the app for quick, evidence-based guidance at the point of care, including diagnosis, treatment, and clinical calculators - all accessible offline. More help For more help go to our BMJ Best Practice help page . For help setting up your NHS OpenAthens username go to the NHS OpenAthens page on our website .

  Join this informative online webinar designed to strengthen your approach to heart failure management using BMJ Best Practice. Date:  Wednesday 19 November 2025 Time:  2pm to 3pm Platform:  Microsoft Teams About the Webinar:  In this session, our expert speakers will guide you through leveraging BMJ Best Practice to deliver outstanding, evidence-based care for patients with heart failure and gain practical insights to improve management and patient outcomes. Speakers: Dr Kieran Walsh, Clinical Director, BMJ Dr Shrilla Benerjee, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and BMJ Best Practice Author Learning Outcomes: Challenges in implementing evidence-based medicine in the management of heart failure Managing comorbidities in patients with heart failure The role of patient information Common pitfalls in management and how to overcome them Who Should Attend? This webinar is ideal for healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and medical stu...

  BMJ Best Practice is a key tool to help you make confident, clinical decisions and provide best care to your patients. Key Evidence BMJ Best Practice has a user-friendly design, making it easy for you to access evidence-based information on a wide range of clinical conditions and diseases. Content includes recommendations, guidelines and best practice covering background, diagnosis, treatments, prognosis, clinical calculators and more. Some conditions have co-morbidities linked. Patient information leaflets help you support your patients. Content is regularly updated and always referenced. Get Access  BMJ Best Practice is available to all NHS staff. Log in with your NHS OpenAthens username to access all the full-text content and features. Link to BMJ Best Practice, along with other NHS resources, via our NHS resources web page . You can also access BMJ Best Practice on the go, via your mobile device. Go to our help page for instructions on downloading the app. More help Fo...

 As a foundation year doctor there are moments when you probably feel overwhelmed with all the new information you have to process. Take advantage of these key resources to develop your clinical knowledge, enhance your professional development, stay up-to-date with the latest developments and improve your patient care. Register for NHS OpenAthens If you haven’t already done so, start by registering for your NHS OpenAthens username for fast, easy access to a wealth of online NHS-based resources. BMJ Best Practice Use BMJ Best Practice to quickly access easy-to-read key information on hundreds of diseases and conditions, either online or via the mobile app. Make confident, informed decisions about patient care with up-to-date, evidence-based information on diagnosis, treatment options, management strategies, differential diagnoses, comorbidities, drug interactions and much more. Oxford Medicine Online When you’re ready to rotate to your next placement refresh your knowl...

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 evidence-based clinical decision support tool. All NHS staff can access BMJ Best Practice. Healthcare students who have an HE / NHS OpenAthens username can also access BMJ Best Practice. Complete our tutorial Using BMJ Best Practice to learn:  What is BMJ Best Practice?  Who can access it?  Search and Browse  What type of information can you access? Using the Comorbidities Manager  Stay up-to-date  Get started with the App BMJ  Best Practice for Junior Doctors For more help with literature searching: Take a look at  more etutorials Book a training session Contact the Health Library

 Case reports can often help you to find something out of the ordinary and give you individual examples of how someone else has responded to an event. This may be something unusual or new and innovative. They are often narratives relating to a specific occurrence. These resources help you to find case reports: BMJ Case Reports for unusual clinical cases UHNM and Keele University both have a subscription to the BMJ Case Reports journal. Staff and students can search the journal to access full-text case reports. The subscription includes the option to submit your own report, giving you the opportunity to be published. If you come across a rare and unusual clinical case consider sharing your experience and submitting your own report. See our website for more help using BMJ Case Reports . Fab NHS Stuff for practical applications and innovative practice Fab NHS Stuff is a repository of ideas and innovations of healthcare practice. Practicing healthcare professionals can sub...

   Are you a foundation year doctor, starting work at UHNM (University Hospitals of North Midlands)? Make sure you get off to a good start by using key resources to support your clinical decisions and help you to practice evidence-based medicine. Key resources for foundation year doctors include: NHS OpenAthens  – register for your NHS OpenAthens username. This gives you access to NHS-based online resources such as ebooks, journals and databases. Complete the online form to register –  follow these instructions . Oxford Medicine Online  – Follow best practice by using Oxford Medicine reference texts. You can access a wide range of handbooks for easy to read information across a range of specialties. For more information about the collection  read our blog post . BMJ Best Practice  – a wealth of information to help you, including epidemiolgy, history and exam, treatement, patient discussions, complications, patient leaflets and so much more for conditio...

 From HEE: Health Education England (HEE) has extended their national subscription to BMJ Best Practice to include the Comorbidities Manager for all NHS staff and learners in England. In the UK alone, one in three patients admitted to hospital as an emergency has five or more conditions. This poses a significant problem for healthcare systems. Clinical guidelines only focus on single conditions, but failure to treat the whole patient leads to worse clinical outcomes, and longer lengths of stay. The COVID-19 pandemic further highlighted the problem, with over 60% of patients admitted to intensive care units having comorbidities. The BMJ Best Practice Comorbidities Manager supports the management of the whole patient by including guidance on the treatment of a patient’s acute condition alongside their pre-existing comorbidities. BMJ Best Practice is a practical tool to help clinicians meet the changing and more complex needs of patients and maximise NHS resources, together resul...

   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 ...

What is BMJ Best Practice? BMJ Best Practice is an evidence-based, point-of-care, clinical reference tool. You can get access to the latest information to support clinical decision-making. Information includes guidelines and recommendations relating to theory, diagnosis, management and follow-up to a wide range of diseases, conditions and symptoms. How to Access… Who is it for? BMJ Best Practice is available to all NHS staff in England. You can access it using your NHS OpenAthens username. Log in You can login either via our Healthcare Resources page or directly from the BMJ login screen: Key Features Key features of BMJ Best Practice include: Simple Search Interface You can use the simple search box to look for your key search terms. Alternatively you can browse through the content by specialty. Latest Evidence Important updates are presented on the home page. You can also see all the references used to create the content. Videos There is a small collection of procedural videos...

BMJ Best Practice is an NHS core content resource - provided centrally by HEE and made available to all users who have a valid NHS-based OpenAthens account. Students on NHS-sponsored healthcare-based courses are eligible for NHS/HEI OpenAthens accounts. This is an NHS-based account, available to students throughout their course and provides access to all resources within the NHS core content collection. These are set up for eligible Keele students and are managed by Campus Library (see either Paul Johnson or Steve Parton). We have received reports of a couple of problems that students have come across whilst trying to log in to BMJ Best Practice. When encountering problems with BMJ BP access try the following: Check you are using your NHS OpenAthens account. The username starts with NHSac - it should be active, eligible and within date If you can't remember your password, you can reset it online yourself. Try clearing the web browser cache   Try opening an incognito...

  October is Health Literacy Month. Learn about this and how BMJ Best Practice patient information can help with shared decision-making at this joint HEE and BMJ webinar on 19 October (12:30-13:15 BST). This lunch-time webinar, delivered jointly by HEE and BMJ for Health Literacy Month 2020, will highlight some of the health literacy challenges that lead to poor outcomes. It will also demonstrate ways that clinicians can use BMJ Best Practice to support shared decision-making. Book your place online here . BMJ Best Practice is available to all NHS staff via your NHS OpenAthens username. You can find more help on BMJ Best Practice from our help page .

BMJ Best Practice is available for all staff within the NHS. Learn more by watching this new video, explaining how it can help you in your day-to-day work. If you need any more help in logging in you can check our blog post - BMJ Best practice login instructions revised . For more help using BMJ Best Practice see the help page on our website .

BMJ Best Practice is a clinical decision support tool, offering you a wealth of information to support patient care. It is available to all NHS staff in England. I am revising the instructions for logging in as some users recently experienced problems. Route 1: via the Health Library website This method takes you straight to the OpenAthens login page.    1. Go to the NHS Resources page on the Health Library website    2. Find the entry for BMJ Best Practice and click the link    3. Enter your NHS OpenAthens username / password and click Submit Route 2: via BMJ Best Practice home page You will need to select your institution via this method.    1. Search Google for BMJ Best Practice or go directly to their website    2. Click Login (top right)    3. Select the Access through Your Institution option    4. You'll then need to find the institution for your Trust or use NHS in England If you work ...

There have been various problems recently around logging in to BMJ Best Practice; s o far this seems to be working OK: Go to the NHS resources page on the Health Library website here  https://www.keele.ac.uk/ healthlibrary/find/ healthinformationresources/ Page down to the link for BMJ Best Practice and click it If you are prompted for an Institution enter "NHS in England". This should find an entry which you can then click. You should then be prompted for your NHS OpenAthens username / password - enter this If you have not logged on before you will be prompted to create a BMJ individual account - you must do this (this is used to allow you to save content and use the app) Then you should be in and you can start searching Instructions for setting up the app are here   https://infoskillsforhealth. blogspot.com/2019/10/bmj-best- practice-app-support-for.html   (but you need to do the previous steps before you can get to the app) If you still have problems ...

We have now been informed that if you are prompted for an Institution when logging in to BMJ Best Practice with your NHS OpenAthens username, you should enter and select "NHS in England". Screen-shot of the BMJ Best Practice Institution page