Healthcare evidence and knowledge now a simple search away

Healthcare evidence and knowledge now a simple search away

NHS professionals make millions of health and care decisions every single day. The challenge of ensuring these decisions are based on the latest insight, married with decades of evidence and research, is being met head-on with the arrival of a brand-new online search.

The Health Education England funded NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is a ‘one-stop’ national gateway which, for the first time nationally, connects healthcare staff and trainees seamlessly to a significant range of free, high-quality knowledge and evidence resources, services, databases, all in one place.

Offering an intuitive search experience for quick, in-depth study, the Hub is ideal for both practicing pharmacists and pharmacy technicians and those in training and includes:

• over 7,000 journals
• books and e-publications, including OUP handbooks
• one-click access to full-text, request a copy or contact an NHS library
• clinical decision support tools such as BMJ Best Practice
• NICE pathways and guidelines
• databases like Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL and PsycInfo.

Streamlining the search for knowledge means that professionals only need to look in one place, rather than scouring multiple resources to find answers to the questions they face.

Launched in January 2022, the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is set to become the starting point for every search; powering the bright minds of health professionals, students and trainees and ensuring they can be confident that the care they deliver is based on the most up-to-date information possible.

Basic searches and abstracts are available to all. Full access to all content is available to those with an NHS email address via one-time-registration to an NHS OpenAthens account. This also means that, once they have signed in, users can tap into the same system wherever their career takes them.

Start your search or learn more through our short user guides