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Conditions and Diseases :: Health
National Health Service :: Health

NHS Direct Online - Official Web site for the NHS 24 hour telephone helpline, NHS Direct. Information about health problems. How to keep healthy. Advice on when to call for help.
Meta Description: [ Encyclopaedia Topic ]

Action for Victims of Medical Accidents. - Registered charity giving free advice about complaining about healthcare or clinical negligence litigation in the UK.

CareHealth -guide to private health care UK - Independent guide to private health care in the UK. Private hospitals, self-payment, medical insurance. Includes BMI Healthcare, BUPA Hospitals, Nuffield Hospitals, NHS Private Wings
Meta Description: [ Independent guide to private health care and private medical insurance in the UK. Information on private hospitals, self-payment and medical insurance. Includes BMI Healthcare, BUPA Hospitals, Nuffield Hospitals, NHS Private Wings. ]

Clinical Claims - Advice site to refer and handle clinical negligence claims. For patients who are the victims of medical accidents and those who support and advise them.
Meta Description: [ clinical claims offer legal services and advice for victims of medical accidents and malpractice, compensation claims, clinical, negligence, treatment error, suffering, surgery, litigation, solicitor ]

Discern Project - Tool for assessing the quality of health information found on the Internet. Designed for use by consumers and still under development by the University of Oxford.

Embarrassing Problems - Information and excerpts from the book to help you deal with health problems that are difficult to discuss, including shyness, baldness, acne, and sex.

Health Information for Wirral Area - This is the Wirral Health Services Web site for providing information about Health care, Health Information and support in Wirral

Healthsites - Find healthcare information and advice from medical conditions, health organisations, complementary medicine, local services and up to date health news.
Meta Description: [ Healthsites ­ your portal to medical & health information for patients & doctors. Access medical & NHS healthcare sites plus news, advice & complementary therapy resources ]

Hip Replacement - The site provides information about hip replacement surgery, its advantages and disadvantages and what to expect in hospital before, during and after surgery.

Malcolm Rowley Trust - The story of Malcolm Rowley, as told by his mother, who died while in the care of Social Services. Site provides factual information about the rights and responsibilities of parents and carers.
Meta Description: [ The story of my son Malcolm Rowley, who died unnecessarily in the care of Salford Social Services in 1998, and the subsequent court case. ]

Medical Claims - A site produced by Medical Litigation, the monthly Medico-Legal Journal. How to complain about medical treatment and advice on how to set about making a claim.
Meta Description: [ Medical Claims - How to bring a claim for medical negligence, clinical negligence, find an experienced solicitor and finance your claim ]

Medical Neglect UK - A site for raising public awareness of medical negligence.Contains resources for the making of complaints and latest medical news.

Medical Pages - Directory listing UK health sites. Hospitals, GP practices, specialist sites, support groups, medical and health products.
Meta Description: [ Medical Pages is the UK's leading Health Directory, helping you find everything health related, from Doctors to Specialists, Health information to Hospitals and Charities to Insurance Companies ]

Medicdirect.co.uk - Extensive Web site containing a good collection of medical information.

Medway Carers Centre - Offers support with benefits, letter writing and dealing with professionals.
Meta Description: [ If you care for a relative, friend or neighbour who is disabled, frail or elderly. We can offer practical support with benefits, letter writing and dealing with professionals. We are here to listen to you either on an individual basis or with a group such as a Coffee Morning. we have a bi-... ]

NetDoctor - Extensive collection of health information for paients, provided by an independent commercial company with a team of medical editors.
Meta Description: [ NetDoctor.co.uk is the UK's largest independent medical information service on the Net. It includes facts about diseases, health and medicine, written by leading doctors in a comprehensive and concise language. ]

Patient Information Publications - directory of health sites with informative reviews.
Meta Description: [ A directory of UK health, disease, illness and related medical websites that provide patient information. ]

Patient Protect - Unofficial organisation which aims to expose and prevent neglect and incompetence in the health service. Site details some examples of problems, contains useful advice on how to complain and provides a list of relevant organisations.
Meta Description: [ Patient Protect is an organisation dedicated to the prevention of neglect and incompetence in our National Health Service and Private Hospitals, and to the elimination of the secrecy which allows these problems to flourish ]

Private Healthcare UK - helps people find information about private health insurance, private hospitals, nursing and residential care, health screening and the private healthcare industry in general.
Meta Description: [ Comprehensive information on private hospitals, private hospital treatment, health insurance, cosmetic surgery in the UK ]

Student Health - Extensive information for students and young people on travel, sport, sexual and other health issues.

Surgery Door - Health information site produced by Intouch with Health Limited. Good range of information covering specific diseases, healthy living, alternative medicine and using NHS services.

The Medical Defence Union - Prepared by the body charged with defending doctors in claims of medical negligence. This site has many helpful pages of information for both the professional and the patient.
Meta Description: [ The Medical Defence Union is the UK's leading medical defence organisation and provides medico-legal advice and assistance and professional indemnity insurance to doctors and other healthcare professionals ]

The Patients Association - A national voluntary organisation run by an elected Council and independent of government and health service organisations. Advises, supports and campaigns for better services for patients.
Meta Description: [ patient rights patient group Claire Rayner Simon Williams Katherine Murphy hospital cleanliness MRSA patient patients patient safety ]

TheSite - YouthNet UK is a small registered charity, providing information on drugs, health, sex, housing and relationships for young people in the UK.
Meta Description: [ TheSite.org is the first place young people should check for advice, information and support on sex, relationships, drugs, drink, health, wellbeing, fitness, housing, law, money, work, careers, education and free time. ]

Webhealth - Information and advice to health professionals and patients with self-help groups, research, nutritional advice, alternative and complementary medicine.