Links
When searching for good quality health information online, the National Library for Health (now known as Health Information Resources) is an excellent place to start - the role of the NeLH is to provide health care professionals with the knowledge and know how to support health care related decisions. The site contains a number of links to full-text databases (password required), guidelines and current information. There are also specialist collections by subject and profession. Below are some additional links you may find useful.
Click on one of the subjects below to be taken to a list of relevant links.
Disclaimer
While the library takes care in the selection of recommended websites, it
cannot accept responsibility for the accuracy or quality of the information
given in external web sites.
- Oxford Brookes University - main providers of Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and some nurse training (including post basic).
- Quality Assurance Agency
- Reading University: School of Health and Social Care - mainly community and teaching degree programmes.
- University of West London
Evidence-based
Practice & Research
- Bandolier
- Centre for Evidence-based Mental Health
- Clinical Significance Calculator - the University of British Columbia, Canada, hosts an online calculator to work out clinical significance measures such as Number Needed to Treat.
- Equator Network - a new initiative that seeks to improve the quality of scientific publications by promoting transparent and accurate reporting of health research.
- Health Technology Assessments (HTA)
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
- National Institute for Health Research
- National Research Register Archive
- NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination - University of York
- Netting the Evidence - Netting the Evidence is intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by providing support and access to helpful Partnerships and useful learning resources, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals
- PROSPERO - CRD run international prospective register of systematic reviews
- RDDirect - guidance and advice for health research
- RDInfo - providing the latest research funding information
- RDLearning - search for health related research courses in the UK
- ScHARR - School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield
- RDS South Central Research Design Service
- UK Clinical Research Network - set up to support clinical research and to facilitate the conduct of trials and other well-designed studies across the UK
- UK Clinical Research Network Study Portfolio database
Health Documents
Many of the key health documents, such as the NHS Plan, can be found by
searching the
Department of Health Publications Library.
- The Stationery Office Official Documents – This web site contains a selection of Government titles from 1994 covering a broad range of topics including the economy, work and welfare, health, transport and the environment. There are two main groups of documents: Command Papers (sometimes known as White or Green Papers) and House of Commons Papers
- UK Legislation
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Intute - searchable catalogue of quality Internet sites covering health, medicine and nursing.
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Intute - selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law
- Audit Commission
- Care Quality Commission
- Chief Executive Bulletin
- Department of Health
- Health Foundation
- Kings Fund
- NHS Clinical Governance Support Team
- NHS Confederation
- NHS Connecting for Health
- NHS Employers
- NHS Networks
- NHS Litigation Authority
- NHS Surveys.org
- National Patient Safety Agency
- Age Concern
- Arthritis Research Campaign
- Cancerbackup
- Diabetes UK
- Drugscope
- Epilepsy Action
- Health Promotion in Berkshire
- Institute of Child Health
- Medical Foundation for AIDS and Sexual Health
- NHS Immunisation Information
- Asthma UK
- National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse
- Reducing Patient Falls
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
- The Society for the Study of Addiction
- Stroke Association
- DISCERN -there is currently a lot of written consumer health information on treatment choices available from a variety of sources, including the internet. Not all of this information is good quality and only a small proportion is based on good evidence. Many of the publications available provide inaccurate or confusing advice, and it may be hard to know which information to use and which to discard. DISCERN is an instrument, or tool, which has been designed to help users of consumer health information judge the quality of written information about treatment choices.
- The Intute Virtual Training Suite provides free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from the Web for your education and research.
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Mencap
- NHS Evidence - Learning Disabilities
- Archives of the Psychiatric Nursing Discussion Group
- Care Quality Commission
- Centre for Mental Health (formerly Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health)
- College of Mental Health Pharmacy (formerly UK Psychiatric Pharmacy Group)
- Depression Alliance
- The Institute of Mental Health Act Practitioners - comprehensive site on mental health law
- Institute of Psychiatry
- Mental Health Foundation
- Mind
- National Association of Psychiatric Intensive Care Units
- National Equalities in Mental Health Programme
- National Mental Health Development Unit
- Rethink (formerly National Schizophrenia Fellowship)
- Schizophrenia.com
- Young Minds
Links to psychology can be found at http://www.intute.ac.uk/psychology/
- EQUIP (Electronic quality information for the public ) - includes links to patient information in languages other than English
- Expert Patients Programme
- Health for Asylum Seekers and Refugees Portal
- For Patients
- BNF for Children
- British National Formulary
- National electronic Library for Medicines (formerly DrugInfoZone)
- National Prescribing Centre
- NHS Prescription Services
- Pharmweb
- UK Medicines Information
- Improvement Foundation
- National Primary Care Research and Development Centre
- National School for Primary Care Research
- NHS Alliance
- Primary care commissioning
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
- British Association of Occupational Therapists
- British Association for Psychopharmacology
- British Dental Association
- British Dietetic Association
- British Medical Association
- British Psychological Society
- The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Community Practitioners’ and Health Visitors’ Association
- Doctors Net
- Foundation of Nursing Studies
- General Medical Council
- Health Professions Council
- The Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Royal College of General Practitioners
- Royal College of Nursing
- Royal College of Physicians
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
- The Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists
- UK Council for Health Informatics Professions
- UK Council for Psychotherapy
- Association of Public Health Observatories
- Cancer Screening
- Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Colleges of Physicians in the UK
- Health Protection Agency
- Health and Safety Executive
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- National electronic Library for Infection
- NHS Evidence – Screening
- NHS Evidence - National Library for Public Health
- Public Health Resource Unit
- Royal Society for Public Health
- UK Screening Portal
- World Health Organisation
- Department of Health Statistics
- National Statistics
- Social Trends - An established reference source drawing together social and economic data from a wide range of government departments and other Partnerships to paint a broad picture of British society today, and how it has been changing.
- Clinical and Health Outcomes Knowledge Base - gives statistics down to PCT and local authority level
- Community Health Profiles - statistics by local authority
- Neighbourhood Statistics - to ward level
- Quality and outcomes framework data -See disease prevalence statistics – from data submitted by practices on National Prevalence Day
- Recent quality and outcomes framework data
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