Lisa Taylor, digital director of SearchMedica UK, said: ‘This is a great addition to the information already available through SearchMedica.co.uk and it enables our users to get all the information they need from multiple, authoritative sources in one search.’

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About Searchmedica.co.uk
SearchMedica.co.uk is a specialist search engine for GPs and other healthcare professionals, designed to offer easy access to relevant medical information online. SearchMedica.co.uk saves time when searching, helping healthcare professionals focus on patient care.

For more information, visit www.searchmedica.co.uk/content/about_us/about_us.ftl
or www.cmpmedica.com

Alternatively, please contact:
Lisa Taylor
SearchMedica
Tel +44 (0)20 7921 8716
ltaylor@cmpmedica.com

About eMC
The electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC) is the largest and most comprehensive source of Government-approved information about UK medicines.

The eMC is owned and managed by Datapharm Communications, a not-for-profit company funded by subscriptions from about 150 UK pharmaceutical companies.

Datapharm’s aim is to improve public health and safety by providing up-to-date, accurate and comprehensive information about medicines to healthcare professionals, patients and the general public through a range of medicine information services.

Datapharm collaborates with organisations including the National Health Service (NHS), the Department of Health and patient groups such as the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) in the delivery of good quality, reliable and up-to-date medicine information services.

For more information, visit www.emc.medicines.org.uk/

Alternatively, please contact:
Eve Laird
Datapharm, publisher of the eMC
Tel +44 (0)1372 371411
elaird@medicines.org.uk

The SearchMedica medical search on GPnotebook provides a bespoke facility that refines the medical information into key categories.   A GP can now look up information concerning a subject such as obesity with access to associated patient leaflets, guidelines and drug information on GPNotebook

The development is centred on making it quicker and easier for GPs to access relevant and trusted information online.

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About SearchMedica
SearchMedica.co.uk is a specialist search engine for GPs and other healthcare professionals, designed to give them easy access to relevant medical information online. SearchMedica.co.uk is about saving time when searching helping healthcare professionals to focus on their patients.

SearchMedica.co.uk is run by CMPMedica, part of United Business Media, and was created using search technology from Convera.

For more information visit www.SearchMedica.co.uk or www.cmpmedica.com
Or contact:
Victoria Clemente
SearchMedica
Tel +44 (0)207 921 8708
vclemente@cmpmedica.com

About GPnotebook
GPnotebook is a clinical medical encyclopaedia providing free access to over 30,000 pages of professional quality information. The development of GPnotebook started as collaboration between a group of medical students at Oxford and Cambridge Clinical Medical Schools 15 years ago and now provides concise coverage of the whole of clinical medicine.

For more information visit www.gpnotebook.co.uk or contact Jim McMorran at support@gpnotebook.co.uk

The new version features redesigned home and results pages making the search engine easier and more intuitive to use.

SearchMedica’s unique results categories – designed to make searching quicker for busy health professionals - are now more prominent above the natural search results and the look and feel of the site has been updated to streamline the search process.

Try a search on the new-look SearchMedica.co.uk.

Behind the scenes, SearchMedica’s architecture has been overhauled to make new developments quicker to introduce. These include a new ‘Results from’ feature showcasing results from SearchMedica’s key partners such as Pulse, the Practitioner, C+D and GPnotebook, as well as a list of authoritative sites recommended by SearchMedica’s editorial team, including OnMedica and Doctors.net.

Lisa Taylor, digital director of SearchMedica UK said: ‘The information needs of healthcare professionals continue to change with the evolution of the industry and we must adapt to meet those needs. The latest developments to SearchMedica will improve the user experience. They also enable us to provide UK healthcare professionals with information more quickly, so that they may treat their patients with the most authoritative and recent information at their disposal.’