| MEDICAL WEBSITES |
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| The website |
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| Local sites |
| Wandsworth PCTis
the website of your local primary care trust, which provides local
health information as well as details about itself. |
| Wandsworth Careline offers advice about social services, aids for disability and residential care for the elderly. |
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| NHS sites |
| NHS Choices is the gateway to
all NHS information. You can compare services and find out about
healthy living and managing illness. |
| NHS Direct is
the online version of the national health helpline. You can look up
medical information and email for advice from here. |
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| Other medical sites |
| For more information about specific topics, click 'Clinical Services' in the menu, select a service, and then see 'Related Links'. |
| Patient.co.uk is a very useful UK site allowing patients to search for health information. |
| BMJ Best
Treatments is a site describing the management of 100 common conditions,
according to the best available evidence. It is produced by the
British Medical Journal. |
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Medline Plus is an American site hosted by the National Library of Medicine. It is designed for the general public, giving detailed information about diseases, but is quite technical. |
Babycentre is a commercial site with useful information for parents from pre conception onwards.
| The Imperial Cancer Research Fund is a site containing news and factsheets about cancer. It contains a useful children's section, and plenty of links to other cancer and medical sites. |
| Cancer Support is another site containing information about cancer. |
| www.immunisation.nhs.uk
is an official site with up-to-date information about children's immunisations. |
| Teenage Health Freak is a site designed by a GP directed at young people. |
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| Travel sites |
| For more information about specific topics, click 'Clinical Services' in the menu, select a service, and then see 'Related Links'. |
| Fit for Travel is a very useful UK travel site which describes requirements for countries worldwide in considerable detail. |
| Center for Disease Control is an American government-maintained site. |
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