FREE for Health New Zealand staff

How to access:

Primary care user? Access BMJ Best Practice instantly from your local HealthPathways website (find it in the Quick Links on the right side of the homepage).

Secondary care user connected to your hospital network/IP? Get started now using the search bar in the top right corner. No login required.

Secondary care user accessing off-site? Visit the Health New Zealand library portal and login with your staff email address and password. Then, click on the BMJ Best Practice link under ‘Point of Care Resources’.

Once you have authenticated using one of the access methods above, register for a free user profile for additional benefits such as access to the mobile app, CPD tracking and alerts.

Why BMJ Best Practice?

Ranked one of the best clinical decision support tools for health professionals worldwide*, BMJ Best Practice provides step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, treatment and prevention of medical conditions. Updated daily using robust evidence-based methodology and expert opinion, BMJ Best Practice provides you with access to the very latest clinical information.

Key features:

  • A generalist tool for the entire multidisciplinary team covering more than 90% of the most commonly presenting conditions in primary and secondary care settings. Used by generalists, EDs, junior doctors, GPs, specialists working outside of their specialty, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics and educators.

  • More than one-quarter of the NZ adult population suffers from multiple chronic conditions, increasing to 42% for those aged over 45*. Our unique Comorbidities Manager supports healthcare professionals in treating the whole patient when managing acute conditions. BMJ Best Practice is the only clinical decision support system to have a dedicated comorbidities manager.

  • Practical, action-oriented structure reflecting the clinical workflow – helping you find answers fast at the point of care. All the information you need, all in one topic.

  • Differential diagnoses, unique treatment algorithms, and step-by-step guidance on treatment to support real-life clinical demands.

  • Multimedia content including 5,000+ images, and videos that provide animated demonstrations of common procedures.

  • Access to over 500 evidence-based patient leaflets. The leaflets provide concise, user-friendly summaries to reassure patients and carers and help them to make informed, shared decisions with healthcare professionals.

  • Automatically track and earn CME/CPD points from Australasian and NZ medical, nursing and other professional colleges and councils, including the RACP, RNZCGP, Nursing Council, Pharmacy Council, ACEM, RACS, RNZCUC and more.

  • 6000+ international and local diagnostic and treatment guidelines, including Te Whatu Ora, Manatū Hauora and a wide range of NZ and Australasian societies, colleges, associations and committees.

  • Other useful features including medical calculators, rare case reports, integrated Cochrane Clinical Answers and Important Update visual alerts.

  • A unique local guidance tool that allows an administrator to easily link to guidelines, care pathways, protocols and other local clinical information within relevant BMJ Best Practice topics.

  • NEW: By popular demand, BMJ Best Practice now links to the New Zealand Formulary and New Zealand Formulary for Children for easy access to local drug information. Simply click on a drug link within the Treatment Algorithm to be taken to your chosen formulary (home page linking currently available, specific drug page linking coming soon).

Qoute

I am a paediatrician living in a rural setting and was asked to see my neighbour with a strange headache. I wondered about giant cell arteritis which you don’t see often in kids so looking it up in BMJ Best Practice improved my care of this patient and made sure it was up to date. A good outcome came out of this with early treatment.

Paediatrician, Te Whatu Ora Southern

Key resources

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Upcoming training and events

More live training webinar dates will be announced soon. In the meantime, a recorded training webinar is available below.

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I have really enjoyed using BMJ Best Practice. The content and language is excellent and easily understandable, and I like how it’s set out. The links for diagnostics and treatment are really useful and evidence-based.

Nurse Practitioner, Te Whatu Ora Midcentral

Contact us

If you have any questions about BMJ Best Practice or would like to share your feedback, please contact our local ANZ team.