Finding information for Pharmacy

The NHS and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence are excellent sources of reliable material on health topics.  In turn, the material they select will be reliable and authoritative.  Activities further down this page. 

1. NHS.UK has information for the general public.   Information on health, medicines and NHS services. Lay person's language, emphasis on prevention. 
2. Remember that evidence-basing is key to medicine today. Sackett (1997) has a useful definition and short introduction to the topic

References

Sackett, D.L. (1997)  'Evidence based medicine', Seminars in Perinatology, 21 (1), pp. 3-5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0146-0005(97)80013-4

Look up "antibiotics" on NHS UK and use the Overview section near the top.

Find at least two conditions where antibiotics are no longer routinely used. 

Go to CKS and search for "antibiotics"- use the search bar at the top of the page. 

There is an "antiobotic associated" condition which should be at or near the top: what is this?

Clinical Knowledge Summaries is based around conditions, diseases and their management in Primary Care.  Use of different drug treatments is part of this management and the scenarios described.