Information Skills for Health

   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...

Get access to the information you need on drugs and medicines. What is it? The BNF is the British National Formulary and the BNFc is the British National Formulary for Children. These are the key authoritative, reference texts for information about drugs and medications, provided especially for UK healthcare staff. How to Access… Who is it for? These texts are available for NHS staff and healthcare students. Log in The BNF and BNFc are available in a range of formats. You will need login details for some formats but not all. Keele Staff and Students – use your Keele login details NHS Staff – use your NHS OpenAthens username / password Key Formats Print Book We hold print versions of the BNF and the BNFc within the Health Library. These are available for reference. You can find the BNF at shelf mark RS125.B7 and the BNFc at shelf mark RJ560.B7. Medicines Complete (login required) The BNF and BNFc are available online via the Medicines Complete interface. You will need to log in to acces...

You can access up-to-date information about drugs and medicines from the BNF (British National Formulary) and the BNFc (British National Formulary for Children). Now access it on the go via your mobile device. Both the BNF and the BNFc are available in the same app and this is available to all NHS staff. Installation Instructions: 1. Go to your App Store and search for the BNF Screen-shot of the App Store page for BNF 2. Download the BNF app from the Pharmaceutical Press 3. Install the BNF app 4. That's it! You can get started straight away - no login is required Click the Search icon or browse through the A-Z Search page on the BNF App Using the App: You can search or browse for the drug you are interested it, then select the page you want to view from the results. Search results page for Aspirin Here is an example page for Aspirin Example page for Aspirin You can flip between the BNF and the BNFc. Choose whether to view the BNF or the ...

The British National Formulary and the British National Formulary for Children (BNF and BNFc) are the key texts to reference for medicine and drug information. You can find out about all the different ways that you can access these titles from our online guides page for the BNF and BNFc . 

Elsevier has added British National Formulary (BNF) and British National Formulary for Children (BNFC) content to ClinicalKey. As of the 30th of April 2018, the new content is available within Clinical Key to users within the UK and Ireland. Screen-shot of Clinical Key drug titles Clinical Key is available to UHNM athens users. For more help see our website.

What is it? The BNF and BNFc are the British National Formulary and British National Formulary for Children. They are drug references, providing authoritative and practical information on the prescribing, monitoring and administration of drugs and medicines. Key Features The BNf and BNFc are available in a range of formats: Print – a print cope of each text is always kept in the library; search our catalogue Library Search to find copies. eBook - you can access the BNF & BNFc online via Medicines Complete. You will need either an NHS Athens account or Keele University computer login details. Search Library Search for the link or go directly to Medicines Complete . On the Internet – the BNF and BNFc are available as part of NICE Evidence . You can access the content without logging in. Mobile App – there is also an app version of the BNF / BNFc, see here for more details You will find information about the drug, including: Indications & dos...

The British National Formulary (BNF) and British National Formulary for Children (BNFc) are essential drug reference resources. You can access these in a number of ways: Print We hold print copies of the BNF & BNFc. You will always find a reference copy of the books at the library. Search our catalogue to check where the copies are located. Online Via: Medicines Complete – an online collection of a number of drug reference ebooks, including the BNF and BNFc. You can access this with your NHS Athens username or your Keele computer login details BNF App – NHS users can download the BNF app and load the BNF and BNFc onto their mobile devices. You will need your NHS Athens username to login. NICE Evidence Search – the BNF is also available via the BNF page on the NICE Evidence Search engine. No login is required here. You will find more help on our BNF & BNFc help page .