Support Groups
Patient UK
This is the most comprehensive and easy to use website for all health matters.
- 683 leaflets on health and disease, some of which have been translated.
- Details of 1967 patient support / self help groups and similar organisations.
- Comprehensive information about medicines and online pharmacy.
- Advice on leading a healthy lifestyle, health promotion and preventing illness.
- Explanations and information about tests and investigations commonly performed.
- A directory of UK websites on disease, health news, events, equipment, helplines, benefits, NHS information, carers' issues, dictionaries, women's health, evidence based medicine, etc.
- Health related books. See the recommended book of the month - Beat your Allergies.
- Links to PatientPlus records - quick reference articles used by UK medical professionals.
- Patient Experience - real experiences of medical conditions.
- Find a GP, specialist, hospital, dentist, therapist, counsellor, etc.
- Quotes and information about health / medical insurance and other financial products
Accident
The Child Brain Injury Trust
www.cbituk.org
Health and Safety Executive
www.hse.gov.uk
RoadPeace - UK National Charity for Road Crash Victims
www.roadpeace.org
RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents)
www.rospa.com
Spinal Injuries Association
www.spinal.co.uk
Allergy
Action Against Allergy
www.actionagainstallergy.co.uk
No Cows' Milk for me Thanks
Web: www.dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/park/gfm11/index.htm
Addiction/Abuse
Alcoholics Anonymous
www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk
Gamblers Anonymous
www.gamblersanonymous.org.uk
(Smoking) ASH - Action on Smoking and Health
www.ash.org.uk
(Smoking) Quit
www.quit.org.uk
Battle Against Tranquillisers (BAT)
www.bataid.org
Women's Alcohol Centre
www.arp-uk.org
Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Society
www.alzheimers.org.uk
Arthritis
Arthritis Care
www.arthritiscare.org.uk
Asthma
Asthma UK
www.asthma.org.uk
BDF
BDF Newlife
www.bdfnewlife.co.uk
Bereavement
Bereavement Helpsheet
We have put together some of the websites that offer help with the loss of a partner, a child, helping a child cope with bereavement and other helpful sites.
Cancer
Action Cancer
www.actioncancer.org
African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust
www.aclt.org
Anthony Nolan Trust
www.anthonynolan.org.uk
The Association for Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Disorders (AMEND)
www.amend.org.uk
Beating Bowel Cancer
www.bowelcancer.org
Bowel Cancer UK
www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk
The Bob Champion Cancer Trust
www.bobchampion.org.uk
Breakthrough Breast Cancer
www.breakthrough.org.uk
Breast Cancer Care
www.breastcancercare.org.uk
CancerBACUP
www.cancerbacup.org.uk
Cavendish Centre - Sheffield
www.cavcare.org.uk
Children with Leukaemia
www.leukaemia.org
Dreams Come True Charity
www.dctc.org.uk
Ovarian Cancer Action
www.ovarian.org.uk
Diabetes
Diabetes UK
www.diabetes.org.uk
Disability
RADAR (Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation)
www.radar.org.uk
Contact a Family
For families with disabled children
www.cafamily.org.uk
Heart & Lungs
British Heart Foundation
www.bhf.org.uk
British Lung Foundation
www.lunguk.org
Hospice Movement
Association of Children's Hospices
www.childhospice.org.uk
Kidney problems
National Kidney Federation
www.kidney.org.uk
Liver Problems
British Liver Trust
www.britishlivertrust.org.uk
Mental Health
Chinese Mental Health Association
www.cmha.org.uk
Mind (National Association For Mental Health)
www.mind.org.uk
Scope
www.scope.org.uk
Prostrate Health
Prostate Help Association
www.pha.u-net.com
Sensory
Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB)
www.rnib.org.uk
Women's Health
Breast Cancer Care
www.breastcancercare.org.uk
Breakthrough Breast Cancer
www.breakthrough.org.uk
Ovarian Cancer Action
www.ovarian.org.uk
Women's Health
www.womenshealthlondon.org.uk
Other
Cinnamon Trust
www.cinnamon.org.uk
The Cinnamon Trust is a specialist national charity which makes arrangements to care for the pets of elderly, ill and disabled pet owners. It seeks to relieve the anxieties, problems and sometimes injustices, faced by elderly and terminally ill people and their pets, thereby saving a great deal of human sadness and animal suffering. The Trust's primary objective is to respect and preserve the treasured relationship between owners and their pets.
Sue Ryder Care
www.suerydercare.org
