GP Appraisals and Revalidation
  • Appraisals 2020
  • The appraisal process
    • Designated body
    • Booking your appraisal appointment
    • Appraisal preparation
    • The appraisal meeting
    • After the appraisal
    • How do I revalidate?
  • Requirements
    • Whole practice
    • Extended practice
    • Continuing professional development
    • Quality improvement activity
    • Significant events
    • Feedback
    • Complaints & compliments
    • Additional information
    • Personal development plans
  • Portfolio tools
  • Confidentiality
  • FAQ
  • Library
    • Appraisals 2020 documents
    • e-Learning modules
    • Clinical guidelines
    • National publications
    • Local publications (Southwest England)
    • Videos and podcasts
  • Reflection
  • GP career options
  • Safeguarding
  • Resuscitation (CPR)
  • Occupational health
  • IT problems
  • Appraisers' page
  • Contact

Clinical guidelines

Formularies and drug information
British National Formulary (via NICE)
BNF for Children (via NICE)

Summaries of product information (SPC) Manufacturers' information for every drug on the UK market
​BNF & BNFC app (for iOS and Android platforms, 2017)
Local formulary:
  • Bath
  • Bristol
  • Cornwall 
  • Devon: North & East
  • Devon: South & West
  • Dorset
  • Gloucestershire
  • North Somerset​
  • Somerset​
  • South Gloucestershire
  • Swindon and North Wiltshire
  • ​Wiltshire
Clinical management
BMJ Best Practice
​BMJ Best Practice was ranked equal first in an independent review of CDS tools for breadth of disease coverage, editorial quality and evidence-based methodology.
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Needs a free Open Athens account or a BMJ account ​(££) to access.

​Clinical Knowledge Summaries (NICE)
"The NICE CKS service which provides primary care practitioners with a readily accessible summary of the current evidence base and practical guidance on best practice in respect of over 330 common and/or significant primary care presentations."
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GP notebook. ​
​If you register (free) with 
Univardis you can have access to more than 5 pages of GP notebook per day, and it will keep a log of what you looked up. ​
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NICE Guideance.
Evidence based guidance.

Immunisation Against Infectious Diseases
This is the "Green Book" with all it's updates.
Local referral guidelines
Local referral guidelines:
Bristol
Cornwall
Devon: North & East
Devon: South and West
North Somerset
South Gloucestershire
Journals and databases
Evidence services (Provided in partnership by HEE and NICE)
"Quick access to reliable information for health and social care professionals.
​Use the healthcare databases advanced search (HDAS), or search journals, databases and specialist evidence."

Open Athens
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Simplifies access to subscription-based content by giving you a single username and password.Provides access to healthcare databases, e-journals and ebooks."
FREE to NHS England users.
Regular updates
NICE guidelines monthly update for Primary Care (Free)

Essential Knowledge Update programme (RCGP, free to members)

Five minutes of General Practice (Free to BMA members)
A monthly email with selected content from across BMJ.
Log in then select My emails.​
Health Libraries
NHS local libraries
Each area has a comprehensive health library with trained staff who can do literature searches, signpost to the evidence and offer advanced training eg critical appraisal.
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For example the Cornwall Health Library has a dedicated page for GPs.
Oxford University press
Courtesy of Health Education England, NHS staff and students on placement in England have access to over 130 Oxford University Press medical and healthcare books online.

Log in with your NHS Open Athens details for free access to:
  • The Oxford Textbook of Medicine
  • Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
  • Oxford Handbook of General Practice
  • Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis
  • and many more.