About Advanced search

The advanced search facility offers options for making your searches more precise and getting more useful results.

The advanced search offers options for making your searches more precise and getting more useful results.

Select search type

This feature allows you to choose how you want the search to behave:

• ALL words: this will find content containing all the search terms specified, the default
• ANY words: this will find content containing one or more of the search terms specified
• EXACT phrase: this will only match the words in the exact order supplied

Narrow your search

This option allows you to search all website content by default, or one or more type of content:

• Web pages: general site content that doesn't fall into one of the categories below
• Press releases: search HPA press releases
• Publications: search HPA publications
• Downloadable files: search binary files such as PDF, Excel and Word documents

Specify a date range

Supplying a date range will constrain the search to just the content that was published on or between the dates specified. The publish date is considered as the date the content was last modified or added to the site. Select the start and end dates by using the calendars, or enter the dates manually.
Note: All dates must be supplied in dd/mm/yyyy format.