On-call resources
Clinical references for on-call work, with access details and the update status found at the last review. Check that an app is maintained and that its guidance applies to your hospital.
Every entry checked on 22 August 2026.
Local guidance and access
Your hospital's own antimicrobial policy outranks everything here. Most of the well-known references are written for the UK, the US or Australia, and licensed products, brand names and resistance patterns all differ in Ireland.
You do not need to work around the BNF geolock. Eolas Medical carries the full BNF and BNF for Children free to Irish healthcare professionals, and Health Library Ireland gives HSE staff MedicinesComplete. These access routes are free for eligible users.
Install on day one
Free, Irish, and enough to answer most of what you will be bleeped about.
Eolas Medical
CurrentIrelandGuidelines, hospital content and, for Irish users, the full BNF and BNF for Children: interaction checker, treatment summaries, prescribing guidance, updated monthly.
Free for individual healthcare professionals · Personal account, location set to Ireland, professional profile verified · last updated August 2026
This is the answer to getting BNF on your phone in Ireland. The BNF content itself is written for the UK.
BetterCall
CurrentIrelandOn-call quick reference written for Irish interns: around 125 topics covering common calls, drugs, procedures, consents and calculators.
Free · last updated August 2026
Written by one doctor rather than a hospital or college, and it flags that some features are AI-assisted. An aide-memoire, not policy.
Your hospital's own guideline app
CurrentYour hospitalYour local antimicrobial policy and guidelines. RCSI Hospitals Group covers Beaumont, Connolly, Drogheda, Cavan and Monaghan and the Rotunda; Galway publishes GAPP on the web; Cork is on emed.ie.
Free
This outranks every other item on this page for antimicrobials.
MDCalc
CurrentInternationalAround 900 clinical calculators and risk scores, with notes on when to use each and what the evidence is. Works offline.
Free, no account needed · last updated August 2026
Set up during induction week
Access to clinical reference works through Health Library Ireland.
Health Library Ireland account
CurrentIrelandThe HSE's national e-resource service. One account gets you UpToDate, MedicinesComplete (BNF, BNF for Children, Martindale, Stockley's), the Johns Hopkins ABX Guide and ClinicalKey.
Free to HSE staff, including agency and students on placement · Register at hselibrary@hse.ie · last updated July 2026
The most valuable thing on this page and the one interns most often do not know exists.
BMJ Best Practice
CurrentUKEvidence-based diagnosis and treatment guidance, updated daily, works offline once you are signed in.
Free to everyone in the Republic of Ireland · Create the free account while you are physically in Ireland; it is enabled by national IP, not by an email address · last updated July 2026
You do not need a college email. That advice describes a second, redundant route.
UpToDate
CurrentInternationalPoint-of-care reference.
Free to HSE staff · Needs an HSE Library account and a first sign-in from an HSE machine on the HSE network. The mobile app works after that.
Web references
National guidance and two phone numbers worth having in your contacts before you need them.
HSE antibiotic prescribing
CurrentIrelandNational antimicrobial guidance: gentamicin and vancomycin dosing, C. difficile, surgical prophylaxis, IV to oral switch.
Free, no login
National principles. Your hospital's empiric policy is still the operative document at the bedside.
NCEC National Clinical Guidelines
CurrentIrelandThe mandated national guidelines, including INEWS version 2, the adult sepsis guideline, IMEWS, PEWS and EMEWS.
Free, no login
medicines.ie
CurrentIrelandSummaries of product characteristics and patient leaflets for medicines licensed in Ireland.
Free, no registration
National Medicines Information Centre
CurrentIrelandPharmacist-staffed medicines information line at St James's, open to any prescriber. (01) 473 0589, Monday to Friday.
Free to prescribers
National Poisons Information Centre
CurrentIrelandTwenty-four hour healthcare professional poisons line: 01 809 2566.
Free
Hospital-specific
Where your site publishes its own guidelines, and which of the well-known apps have gone stale.
RCSI Hospitals Group Antimicrobial Guidelines
CurrentYour hospitalEmpiric therapy by system, surgical prophylaxis, gentamicin and vancomycin calculators, renal dosing. Covers Beaumont, Connolly, Our Lady of Lourdes Drogheda, Cavan and Monaghan, the Rotunda and Louth County.
Free · last updated January 2026
NCHD at ULHG
CurrentYour hospitalCarries the Intern Survival Guide for the six Mid-West sites, plus teaching calendar, numbers and HR resources.
Free · last updated January 2026
This supersedes the Limerick Intern Handbook PDF from 2017 and 2018 that still circulates.
emed.ie
CurrentYour hospitalEmergency medicine reference from CUH and MUH: around 24 sections including the CUH antibiotic policy, sepsis, toxicology and procedures. Installs as a web app and works offline.
Free, no login · last updated 2026
GAPP, Galway Antimicrobial Prescribing Policy
CurrentYour hospitalPrescribing principles, adult guidelines by system, surgical prophylaxis and paediatric guidance, published openly on the web.
Free, no login
The web version is current. The standalone GAPP app has not been updated since 2018; use the link instead.
Clinibee
CurrentYour hospitalHow Children's Health Ireland publishes its clinical guidelines and the CHI Paediatric Formulary.
Free, account required
Use the web version. The iOS app has recent reports of failing to open.
MEG eGuides
CurrentYour hospitalA container app hospitals license to publish their own guidelines and formularies. Also carries the national maternity guidelines.
App free, content licensed per hospital · You see your own hospital's content after signing in
Often described as the HSE app. It is not; it is an Irish company's platform that hospitals buy.
Beaumont Medical
Not updatedYour hospitalThe Beaumont app with the intern section.
Free · last updated June 2021
No update in five years. Use the RCSI Hospitals Group app for antimicrobials.
Steth-o-cope
Not updatedIrelandA structured approach to the acutely unwell ward patient: prepare, assess, investigate, manage, with escalation triggers. Built for the West and North West intern network.
Free · last updated July 2021
iOS only, and not updated since 2021, but the reasoning still holds.
Written for somewhere else
International references use different formularies and escalation protocols. Check them against local guidance.
Foundation Doctor Handbook
CurrentUKTwenty-seven reference documents and twenty-four calculators. The app people mean when they say the three euro one.
EUR 2.99 once · last updated June 2026
ThinkSulin
CurrentAustraliaInpatient insulin decision support: targets, hypoglycaemia, basal-bolus adjustment.
Free · last updated November 2024
Published by NSW Health, not the NHS. Insulin brands and inpatient protocols differ here, so take the reasoning and prescribe from your hospital's diabetes policy.
Johns Hopkins ABX Guide
CurrentUSInfectious disease and antimicrobial decision support.
Free to HSE staff through Health Library Ireland
US formulary and US resistance patterns. Not a substitute for your local antimicrobial policy.
No longer there
Still recommended in forum threads, and still turning up in search results. Both are gone.
NCHD.ie
GoneIrelandAn intern reference covering antimicrobials, intern calls and sepsis, with content from the Cork and Kerry stewardship committee.
Was free
The domain is unregistered as of mid-2026, not merely offline, so anyone could take the address. Do not use an old bookmark. emed.ie comes from the same Cork clinical group.
ATSP
GoneUKA UK near-peer out-of-hours guide for foundation doctors.
Was free
The app and its host domain went with Health Education England when it folded into NHS England. Only unofficial copies remain.
Something missing, or something here gone stale since it was checked? Tell me and it gets fixed. Nothing on this page is a clinical recommendation: it is a list of where to look, and the guidance in force at your own hospital comes first.