Portals

• European Commission Public Health

• Health Search Plus: health information from multiple sources

• Patient UK: directory of UK health, disease and related websites

• SearchMedica: the GP's Search Engine

Associations and Organizations

Some of these are not specifically for health

• Action against Medical Accidents: charity dealing with victims of medical negligence (UK)

• Alcohol Concern (UK)

• Bladder and Bowel Foundation (UK): replaces the Continence Foundation and Incontact

• British Deaf Association

• British Heart Foundation

• British Hypertension Society

• British Medical Association (UK)

• British Medical Journal: internet version (UK)

• Bullying Online (UK)

• BUPA  private health insurance (UK)

• Campaign for Normal Birth (UK)

• Care Quality Commission

• Charity Choice: find UK registered charities and donate online

• Charity Commission for England and Wales

• Countess of Chester NHS Trust (UK)

• Compassionate Friends: Support for bereaved parents and their families (UK)

• Department of Health Home Page (UK)

• DisabledGo: access information for disabled people across the UK.

• Disabled Living Foundation (UK)

• General Dental Council (UK): includes information about complaints procedures

• General Medical Council: includes register of medical practitioners (UK)

• Health Protection Agency (UK)

• Macmillan Cancer Support (UK)

• Million Women Study (UK)

• MIND: the mental health charity (UK)

• Muscular Dystrophy Campaign

• Muslim Health Network (UK)

• The National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit

• National Health Service

• National Health Service: History BBC

• National Health Service Litigation Authority

• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) (UK): formerly the Health Development Agency and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence

• No More Panic: information for sufferers and carers of people with Panic, Anxiety, Phobias and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD).

• Nursing and Midwifery Council (UK)

• Office for Disability Issues (UK)

• Patients' Association (UK)

• Princess Royal Trust for Carers (UK)

• RADAR: the disability network

• Reveal - the database of accessible resources for visually impaired people

• Royal National Institute for the Blind: RNIB (UK)

• RNID: Royal National Institute for Deaf People (UK)

• The Samaritans

• Self Help UK: self help and support groups

• Slimming World

• Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society (Sands) (UK)

• Stroke Association

• Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SoBS) (UK)

• Terrence Higgins Trust: HIV/AIDS charity (UK)

• UK Adhesions Society (UKAS)

• US Food and Drugs Administration: consumer advice

• World Health Organization

Health Information/Services

• Alice: a health question and answer service from Columbia University (US)

• Bandolier: evidence based health care (UK)

• Best Treatments : clinical advice for patients from the British Medical Journal (UK)

• Cancer Research UK: everything you want to know about cancer

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)

• Clinical Evidence (UK) [unavailable at latest check]

• Dr. Foster: guide to healthcare services (UK)

• Embarrasing Problems (UK)

• Free Medical Journals

• Health Friends: a social network for health

• Healthfinder (US)

• Healthline: the world's best health sites (US)

• Healthtalk Online: share other people's experiences of health and illness: formerly Dipex:

• HealthWatch (UK)

• Internet Mental Health

• Intute: health and life sciences: formerly OMNI

• Law: including Solicitors Online

• Macmillan Cancer Information: directory of information materials for people with cancer (UK)

• Medical Dictionary

• Medical Practitioners Register (UK)

• Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition (US)

• National  Library of Health (UK)

• NetDoctor: the UK's Independent Health Website

• NHS Choices: includes Behind the Headlines: an unbiased and evidence-based analysis of health stories that make the news

• NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (UK)

• The Nutrition Source: Knowledge for Healthy Eating (US)

• Pain-talk: a national discussion forum and community for UK Healthcare Professionals with an interest in acute, chronic, or palliative pain management

• Patient Opinion: collects patients' experiences of treatment on the NHS

• Patient UK: contains leaflets on health and disease

• PUBMED: free access to MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases. (US)

• Quackwatch: Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions (US)

• RXList: the Internet drug index (US)

• Surgery Door (UK)

• You andYour Anaesthetic: information for patients relatives and friends

• Your Disease Risk (US)

• Youthhealthtalk: young people's real experience of health and lifestyle: formerly part of Dipex:

Odds and Ends

• Anatomy of the Human Body, by Henry Gray (Gray's Anatomy) 20th ed. 1918

• The Visible Human Project

• Whonamedit.com:  a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms: medical phenomena named after a person

Government Reports

• Berwick Review into Patient Safety 2013

• Black Report : Reducing Health Inequalities: an Action Report 1980

• BSE Inquiry Report: the inquiry into BSE and variant CJD in the United Kingdom (Phillips Report)

• Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (Acheson Report) 1998

• Living Well in Later Life: report by the Healthcare Commission, the Audit Commission and the Commission for Social Inspection

• The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry 2010: Chairman Robert Francis QC . Final Report: 2013

• Reducing Health Inequalities: an action report: Our Healthier Nation 1999

• The Shipman Enquiry: Chairman Dame Janet Smith

Recently added sites

Compiled by Sylvia Milne (Chester, England)

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 Updated 23/06/18

Links Checked 10/02/17