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NHS Knowledge and Library Hub - Your new and easy route to accessing a wealth of
high quality knowledge and evidence resources in one place 
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​Key Health & Social Care Databases

​Health Databases Advanced Search (HDAS) has been decommissioned. Alternative search platforms are listed below. 
AMED
It covers a selection of journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, and several professions allied to medicine.
Search at OVID
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(OpenAthens required)
BNI
​Comprehensive index covering all aspects of nursing, midwifery and community healthcare.
Search at Proquest
​​(OpenAthens required)
CINAHL ULTIMATE
Covers all aspects of nursing and allied health disciplines. 
​Search at EBSCO
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​(OpenAthens required)
EMBASE
A major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals.
​Search at OVID
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(OpenAthens required)
EMCARE
​A nursing and allied health bibliographic database published by Elsevier.
Search at OVID
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(OpenAthens required)
​MEDLINE ULTIMATE
A general medical database produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Search at EBSCO
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​(OpenAthens required)
PSYCINFO
​Provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines
​Search at Proquest
​​(OpenAthens required)
PUBMED
Comprises over 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE
Search at PubMed
HMIC
​Brings together the bibliographic database of the Department of Health's Library and Information Services (DH-Data) and King’s Fund Information and Library Service.
Search at OVID
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(OpenAthens required)
COCHRANE LIBRARY
Premier resource for information on the effectiveness of healthcare interventions. You should search the Cochrane Library when you are looking for information about the effectiveness of treatments and healthcare interventions
Search at Cochrane Library 
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Other Core Resources

​BioMed Central - A pioneer of open access publishing, BMC has an evolving portfolio of high quality peer-reviewed journals

UpToDate: provides an overview of a topic and so is useful for general search questions, e.g. “Can you find me all the evidence on the diagnosis and treatment of disc herniation?”  

Clinical Knowledge Summaries - 
Over 370 topics organised alphabetically, with focus on the most common and significant presentations in primary care.

NICE Guidance - 
Evidence-based recommendations developed by independent committees, including professionals and lay members, and consulted on by stakeholders.

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