Guidelines

Healthcare guidelines are best found from the following sources:

Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust Intranet

Guidelines are available via the Policies and guidelines page on the Trust Intranet.  You will only be able to access the Intranet on a computer attached to the SCH network.  Ask Library Staff if you need assistance. 

National Institute for Health &Clinical Excellence

Nice provide guidelines on how a particular condition should be treated. It divides its guidance into 3 main areas:

• Health technology – specific medicines, treatments and procedures
• Clinical practice – how doctors and nurses should treat diseases and conditions
• Public health – preventing illness and health promotion

NHS Evidence

Guideline producers accredited by NICE can have their guidelines searcheable thought the NHS Evidence search box. These include SIGN, RCPCH, British Thoracic Society. A more extensive list is available here.

TRIP

Use the ‘Guidelines’ limits on the TRIP database to filter the results.  You can filter for guidelines from Europe, North America or elsewhere.  

Map of Medicine

This is a combination of the best available research evidence and the best evidence clinical guideline.  It is a comprehensive, concise and user-friendly one stop clinical resource for clinical decision making, continuing professional development and medical education. 

To access some of these resources you require an NHS Athens login.  Please see our NHS Athens page for more information.