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Find words in the titles and descriptions of items, item releases and news articles by entering them into the search box and clicking SEARCH.

  • Enter “imaging department” to find anything with “imaging” or “department” in its title or description.
    Enter “imaging AND department” to find anything matching “imaging” and “department”.
  • Letter case is ignored, so “snomed” will find “SNOMED”.
  • Common words such as “an”, “be” and “is” are ignored.

Enter “title:” before the search term to match titles only.

  • Enter “title:national” to find anything with “national” in the title.

Enter “text:” before the search term to match descriptions only.

  • Enter “text:patient” to find anything with patient in the description.

Enter “type:item AND” to match only items.

Enter “type:release AND” to match only item releases.

Enter “type:news AND” to match only news articles.

  • Enter “type:news AND nhsbsa” to find only news articles with “nhsbsa” in the title or description.

Add the tilde (~) character to the end of a word to match words with a similar spelling.

  • Enter “patient~” to find “patient”, “patient's” and “patients”.

Learn more in the Apache Lucene documentation.

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