Clinical Decision Support Tools available to support your practice

Due to low usage we have now ended our subscription to Dynamed. However some great alternative resources are still available to you. 

BMJ Best Practice

This is a clinical decision support tool very similar to Dynamed. BMJ Best Practice uses the latest evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.

Watch the video about BMJ Best Practice here 

How to Access

  1. Go to https://bestpractice.bmj.com/
  2. Enter your OpenAthens username and password and click ‘Sign in’
  3. If you are a new user, you will need to now register for a BMJ Best Practice personal account. If prompted for an institution enter "NHS in England". Use your personal account to download the app for access anywhere, anytime, even offline.


We also have a subscription to Clinical Key:

 Clinical Key

Clinical search engine with access to many full-text journal articles, topic summaries and ebooks. It has information on conditions, procedures, drugs, guidelines, patient information and more.  Take a look at our guides to Clinical Key here so you can get the best out of this resource: https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/training/onlineguidesandsupport/clinicalkey/

Clinical Knowledge Summaries can be found on the NICE website:

Clinical Knowledge Summaries

Clinical Knowledge Summaries aim to provide primary care practitioners with a readily accessible summary of the current evidence base and practical guidance on best practice 

Over 370 topic summaries are arranged both alphabetically by health topic with focus on the most common and significant presentations in primary care, and by specialty.