How to access BMJ Best Practice via NHS email or Open Athens

How to access with your NHS email address

1. Go to the email registration page
2. Use your NHS email address* to register for a BMJ Best Practice user profile** – it’s easy to do and only takes a minute to set up (if you have previously created a BMJ Best Practice user profile with your NHS email address, you will be redirected to our log in page). Your user profile will enable you to track your CME/CPD activity and download the app for access anywhere, anytime, even offline.
3. When you next visit BMJ Best Practice, log in with your BMJ Best Practice user profile to access the content

*You will need access to your NHS email address to complete the registration.
**The BMJ Best Practice user profile is separate to your personal NHS account.

How to access via Open Athens

1. Click ‘Access through your institution’, select the OpenAthens* option and sign in with your credentials. You will then be taken back to BMJ Best Practice.
2. If you are a new user, you will need to now register for a BMJ Best Practice user profile – it’s easy to do and only takes a minute to set up. Your user profile will enable you to track your CME/CPD activity and download the app for access anywhere, anytime, even offline.

*Eligible NHS healthcare professionals can create an OpenAthens account here:
England: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/
Scotland: https://www.athensregistration.scot.nhs.uk/
Wales: https://register.openathens.net/wales.nhs.uk/register

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BMJ Best Practice – Clinical Tutorial and User Guide

The below tutorial offers step by step guidance on setting up your account and getting started with Best Practice.

Introducing the Comorbidities Manager within BMJ Best Practice

Rising to the comorbidities challenge     

Both senior and junior healthcare professionals in the acute setting often struggle with the diagnosis and treatment of patients who present with existing conditions.

In the UK, one in three adults suffer from multiple chronic conditions and most patients in the acute setting have more than one medical condition. This is a significant and costly global problem.

Managing the treatment of patients with comorbidities is hard – clinical guidelines only focus on single conditions – but failure to manage comorbidities leads to worse clinical outcomes and longer lengths of stay.

In response to this, BMJ has integrated the Comorbidities Manager into BMJ Best Practice. This is the only point of care tool that supports the management of the whole patient by including guidance on the treatment of a patient’s acute condition alongside their pre-existing comorbidities. 

Healthcare professionals are prompted to consider the patient’s comorbidities when accessing treatment information. The tool then produces an initial management plan that is tailored to the unique needs of the patient. Content is written using evidence-based guidelines, as well as by Clinical Experts.

Treating the acute presentation alongside existing conditions in this way enables hospitals to increase quality of care and efficiencies through the effective management of the patient. 

This in turn means:

• better clinical outcomes
• shorter hospital stays
• and fewer readmissions.

Watch these videos to learn more about the Comorbidities Manager: