Map of Medicine

What is the Map of Medicine?

The Map of Medicine is a clinical information resource developed by clinicians. The Map is also a framework, providing quick access to further information and activities through integration with other systems.

The Map is an up to date refresher for experienced clinicians and a starting point for those planning or configuring healthcare delivery within or across organisations. The Map can be localised to represent, include or reference local information and resources.

A clinical benchmark for healthcare

The Map is an evidence-based benchmark for clinical processes that supports the configuration of services, local commissioning and clinical practice across care settings.

Support for clinical practice

The Map is described as a "refresher" by experienced clinicians and as an invaluable knowledge resource for junior doctors, locum staff and multi-disciplinary teams.

Designed by clinicians from the outset, the distilled, visual flow of the Map pathways provide quick access as a reference source or to share with patients at the point of care.

Broad content coverage

The Map currently includes clinical information from 28 specialties organised over 370 pathways and equivalent to over 6000 printed pages.

Pathways include clinical knowledge across the patient journey from diagnosis to treatment, providing a single resource across primary and secondary care settings.

Evidence based content

The Map is a distillation of recognised international sources of clinical evidence and guidance that are systematically searched and reviewed by information specialists working with experienced clinicians.

In addition, clinical experience is incorporated through expert review by a large network of external clinicians employed by public sector healthcare organisations.

National, local and personal

The Map will address clinical governance by enabling the development and sharing of local guidelines and care pathways. Future developments will work towards combining, in a single solution, national and local information to provide all staff with a single source of personal best practice.

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