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General
Discover information on a wide range of illnesses and conditions, telephone advice numbers, current health issues, health professionals and choose and book your hospital appointment.
BBC Health
Information on a wide range of illnesses and conditions as well as details of organisations that provide help and support.
BBC News: Health
Includes background briefings on health topics of contemporary interest.
Best Health
Find information on information on individual health conditions, how to make decisions about health treatments, operations and tests. The information is written in a clear style and is based on BMJs Clinical Evidence.
Choose and Book
Choose and Book is a new NHS service that allows patients to choose a hospital or clinic and book an appointment with a specialist. Patients can book online or telephone the Choose and Book appointment line.
Department of Health
Access to press releases, new publications, health telephone advice numbers and information about current health issues in the news.
Embarrassing Problems
This site aims to help people deal with health problems that are difficult to discuss with anyone.
Find a Dentist
British Dental Association, find a dentist in your area or practices that specialise in particular areas of dentistry.
Health on the Net
Gateway to medical information on the Internet that has been quality assessed and is subject to peer review.
Health Professions Council
Register of health professionals
Health Protection Agency
A-Z of infectious diseases including fact sheets and statistics.
Healthline
Gateway site to health information that can be searched by topic or browsed by category.
Healthsites
The Healthsites portal provides a quick route to medical and health resources covering the following areas for patients, doctors and other healthcare and medical professionals: National Health Service organisations, local NHS services, patients leaflets, health news, medical advice, complementary medicines, diagnosis sites and alternative therapies.
HCA Private Hospital Group
London private hospitals and specialist treatment centres. Find a consultant, hospital or treatment.
The Information Centre
Find statistics on health and lifestyles, hospital, population and geography, primary care and social care.
Information Prescription Service
Quickly create a package of health information to print, email or save
Institute for Child Health
Information for families and fact sheets written by health professionals.
Intute: Health and Life Sciences
Provides access to the web resources for health education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists.
James Lind Library Free Books to Download
Helping patients to understand clinical trials, health statistics and health advice.
Joint Age Calculator
Discover your true joint age, and exercises and advice on how to keep your joints flexible
Medicines.org.uk
Contains daily updated information on prescription and over the counter medicines available in the UK.
Medline Plus
Trusted health information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
The Merck Manual
A comprehensive source of medical information and disorders.
National Health Service
Gateway to National Health Service sites including a searchable database of local services.
NetDoctor
This site is put together by over 250 doctors and health professionals. The site includes health information and an "Ask the Doctor" service.
NHS Choices
"This website has been developed to help you make choices about your health, from lifestyle decisions about things like smoking, drinking and exercise, through to the practical aspects of finding and using NHS services when you need them." Includes links to NHS and a health A-Z.
NHS Direct
NHS Internet health information sources and a telephone helpline.
NHS Evidence Health Information Resources
Discover the NHS Health Library.
The Patients Association
Raise concerns and share NHS healthcare experiences.
SearchMedica
Search the entire web, NHS sites or medical sites chosen by GPs. SearchMedica search results are independent and ranked according to relevance for GPs.
