1. Websites for MI NMITC July 2008

2. UKMI www.ukmi.nhs.uk Supports the UKMi network MI News Highlights new resources Fridge Database Latex database Other specialist MI resources Medicines Q and A

3. UKMi Enquiry Answering Page Is under the Clinical Governance heading www.ukmi.nhs.uk Standard search Websites/Web-based Resource Links. A word document to use / adapt. Will help you create your own ‘favourites folders Effective Use of the Internet for Enquiry Answering. A PDF document that provides guidance on safe and efficient use of the Internet

4. eBNF & eCBNF www.bnf.org.uk Search or browse – sometimes browsing is easier Navigate using tree structure BNF extra – advanced information on what will be new in next edition Calculations/conversions

5. eMC www.medicines.org.uk SPCs searchable by text and by section PILs X-PIL service Medicine Guides dm+d

6. Medicines Complete Stockley, Martindales, AHFS, Herbal Medicines & Handbook of Injectable Drugs www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/ Trial subscriptions available Special price for UKMI – contact regional centre for details Easy to search Access out of hours on-call

7. NELM www.nelm.nhs.uk News headlines What’s new Register and “log in” to see full content Easy to search the many products individually or separately

8. National Library for Health http://www.library.nhs.uk Quick links to many resources “log in” using your Athens UN/password Easy to search the many products individually or separately Evidence Based Reviews Guidance Specialist Libraries, Books and Journals Training available from your library service

9. Cochrane Can be accessed via NHS Wales e-library for health / NHS Scotland e-Library & National Library for Health www.library.nhs.uk www.library.nhs.uk Contains a number of different databases including: The Cochrane Databases of Systematic Reviews and Methodology Reviews (Recognised as gold standard) Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials NHS Economic Evaluation Database (Economic Evaluations). Health Technology Assessment Database

10. Department of Health www.dh.gov.uk Difficult to navigate Lots of archived documents – your 1 st ‘hits may not be the most up to date Put in the year – sometimes helps Use Google add “www.dh.gov.uk” to your search

11. Google & Google Scholar www.google.co.uk Powerful search engine Thousands of hits Many ways of limiting searches Scholar - limits to academic sites BUT use it wisely

12. MHRA – Drug Analysis Prints Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency www.mhra.gov.uk Another website that isn’t easy to navigate Save the URL into MiDatabank or favourites folder DAPs http://www.mhra.gov.uk/Onlineservices/Medicines/Druganalysisprints/index.htm

13. NHS Choices www.nhs.uk General resource Portal for NHS Services Patient information Map of Medicine

14. eMIMMs www.healthcarerepublic.com/login/ Username and log in from your regional centre Useful for prices Some good tables comparing drugs in the same therapeutic class (eg Insulins, HRT) Summaries of guidelines Self-help directory

15. Clinical Knowledge Summaries (Previously Prodigy) Clinical Knowledge Summaries www.cks.library.nhs.uk/ Guidelines for GPs Useful for enquiries relating to conditions mainly managed in primary care Regularly updated

16. Lexi-comp www.lexi.com/ Is not a cheaper substitute for Micromedex – there is less detail and not as well referenced but some easy to access information Drug monographs with subsets Poisoning/toxicology Alternative medicines Clinical / diagnostics

17. Natural Medicines Database www.naturaldatabase.com Comprehensive database Good for checking interactions Searchable under product name, drug name or disease/condition EfficacyReferenced

18. Toxbase http://toxbase.u5e.com/ Free registration for NHS users Poisons, antidotes etc Good for pregnancy enquiries (though check date of monograph)

19. WebsiteAddressUsernamePassword Micromedex www.thomsonhc.com MDE3MDE4Tour97 Pharm-Line www.pharm-line.nhs.uk pl-train-08trent NMCD www.naturaldatabase.com To be notified Lexi-comp http://www.lexi.com To be notified MIDatabank Enq. Manager SamSmith MIDatabank Administrator AdministratorEquinox

20. TIMEDatabaseTutor 16.45pmTicTac 17.05pmMIDatabank 16.25pmMicromedex 17.45pmNMCD 18.05pmPharmline Lexi-Comp? Cochrane ?