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Selected Health Organisations, Journals and Policies
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- British Healthcare Internet Association - cross-disciplinary membership, news events, links including those dealing with healthcare & internet issues
- British Medical Acapuncture Society - information for practitioners & patients, finding a practitioner, links to research, international societies, general information, acapuncture points, pain management, journals & other resources
- BUPA Private Healthcare - Find private health insurance, plus online medical health care information and advice.
- Couple Counselling Scotland - a confidential counselling service for people in marriage and other intimate personal relationships, site includes Frequently Asked Questions & local couple counselling services
- Department of Health
- Department of Health: Our Healthier Nation - government policy consultation, Green paper summary, full text & newsletter
- EPPI-Centre Social Science Research Unit Institute of Education - Evidence for Policy & Practice Information Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre) is part of the Social Science Research Unit (SSRU), Institute of Education, University of London, includes 3 strands, Health Promotion (Research and dissemination of information relating to the evaluation of health promotion interventions (including a programme of research to evaluate educational interventions for HIV prevention in southern Africa) , Education (a centre for evidence informed policy and practice in education) & User Involvement investigating the generation & use of evidence of effectiveness as seen by people using health and education services)
- Health on the Net Code of Conduct - an internationally agreed policy to ensure good practice for medical & health websites, followed by some of the sites listed here
- Institute for Complementary Medicine - basic site with information on finding a practitioner registered with the British Register of Complementary Practitioners, careers information, also a small number of links to other complementary medicine sites
- Institute of Occupational Health - University of Birmingham
- Internet Healthcare Coalition - developing good practice & standards for and with Internet health providers with articles, presentations, meetings & links
- The Lancet
- The Medical Research Council - range of research resources & information for the UK, information on the schools programme keeping teachers & students up-to-date about cutting edge medical research & promoting an awareness of the MRC's work & links to mainly research related websites.
- National Family Mediation Services - helping people through divorce & separation, information about mediation & finding a local service in the UK
- Relate - largest relationship counselling organisation in the UK, information & brief case studies about their counselling services, psychosexual therapy & mediation, factsheets online, email service available next year, links to other professional organisations, information about becoming a counsellor
- Socialist Health Association - news, reports, policies, useful links to radical UK & international health organisations & labour movement. There is also a glossary of acronyms used in health & medical communities
- Society of Health Advisers in Sexually Transmitted Diseases - information for professionals & the public, includes discussion groups, Frequently Asked Questions, UK & Ireland clinics, information about advisers' work & the organisation, ABC of STIs, sexually transmitted infections (at least 25 different ones) including infection A - Z, medications, partner concerns, gay men's health, jobs in the sector
- SPRITO-ELS - National Training Organisation (NTO) for health & fitness, sports & recreation, playwork, the outdoors, leisure attractions, caravan industry
- Tagish's list of public health care providers & organisations - reliable source of public sector information
- Working Together for a Healthier Scotland - Green Paper about planning for health, through personal and community efforts.
- World Health Organisation - information, policies, reports, also vaccination & travel advice
- The Royal College of General Practitioners - College services, activities and specialist groups
- The Royal Society of Medicine - resources, events & publications for UK health professionals
Please let us know if there are sites we should include or sites which have moved.
Disclaimer: We cannot check the content of all the sites included, so please take care with any advice or information given in sites, particularly where it does not come from a recognised organisation or profession.
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