Health professionals can now get on-the-spot access to expert opinion, guidelines and the latest evidence with the launch of Best Practice, from the internationally renowned BMJ Evidence Centre.

Best Practice is a new on-line decision support tool designed to help practitioners, patients, students and researchers find the best medical information and use it in the most effective way.

It brings together the latest evidence, peer-reviewed expert opinion, and guidelines on over 10,000 different diagnoses. Its easy-to-use design fits information around existing workflows - enabling clinicians, nurses and pharmacists to make the best decisions for their patients, every time.

eHealthForum launches free medical office forms to help combat patient / doctor communication barriers and improve health care service resources

NEWS FLASH: Being ill-prepared can have ill effects. A new poll from eHealthForum suggests that patients don't know how to communicate effectively with their medical practitioner. This can lead to wasted appointment time, wasted money, misdiagnoses and even the wrong prescriptions being issued...

27th January 2009. WORLDWIDE : Today, eHealthForum, one of the world's largest online health sites, makes printable medical forms available to help patients and doctors all over the world maximize the quality of every consultation.

Health And Safety (Offences) Act Should Prompt Businesses To Keep Up The Training, Urges British Safety Council

Leading health and safety authority the British Safety Council (BSC) today welcomed the deterrent provided by the introduction of the Health and Safety (Offences) Act. The BSC was already concerned that businesses should not cut back on crucial training and systems for short term gains in these difficult economic times, and believes that the Act will help to strengthen awareness of the need to maintain vigorous risk controls and safety management systems to avoid costly payouts, fines and even imprisonment.

As the recession tightens and businesses across the UK look at ways of reducing costs in order to stay afloat, the British Safety Council (BSC) and a leading lawyer in the field of personal injury have issued a stark warning to business leaders that reducing spend on controlling risks to workplace health and safety could endanger lives and cost companies an average of £30,000 per claim along with significant reputational damage.

“There is a danger with the credit crunch that firms will cut back on health and safety planning and implementation, leading to an increase in personal injuries at work,” says Grahame Aldous QC of 9 Gough Square Chambers, “This may provide more work for lawyers, but the reputational and internal ethos damage to firms may be considerable if they let this area of their operations go.