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General sites
Rushcliffe Primary Care Trust
This is the administrative body in charge of medical services at Keyworth Health Centre www.rushcliffe-pct.nhs.uk
Certain facets of their activity are direct services for patients and need to be better known. They will be listed in this section.
Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
Queen's Medical Centre www.qmc.nhs.uk
Nottingham City Hospital www.ncht.org.uk
Benefits or otherwise of alternative therapies
www.quackwatch.com
NHS Direct Online. Self help information. A mustvisit!
www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/main.jhtml
Center for disease control and prevention. USA site but
good on global health news travel immunisation
www.cdc.gov/travel/
Our very own Department of Health advice on travel.
www.doh.gov.uk/traveladvice
Another comprehensive Travel site
www.fitfortravel.scot.nhs.uk/
Health Education Authority site about immunisation
www.immunisation.org.uk
Advice and statistics on common infectious diseases from the Public Health Laboratory Service
www.phls.co.uk
A general medical site for all kinds of information
about diseases, drugs, the NHS and a variety of health issues is
www.netdoctor.co.uk. It is
sponsored, so you will have to live with the ads.
Sites for specific ailments and issues
Coeliac Society
www.coeliac.co.uk
Hypertension (raised blood pressure) www.bpassoc.org.uk
More information about the NHS Cancer Screening
Programme is available at
www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk
www.foodstandards.gov.uk is
a mine of excellent information on what it says
Dr Jenkinson has a website about his pet subject
www.whoopingcough.net It is for patients who think they have it and it gets about 2000 hits per day from different people worldwide.
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