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Childrens Health
- Baby Centre expert advice, up-to-date information and parent-to-parent support
- Antenatal and Newborn Screening Programmes.
- Breast Feeding advice.
- Childhood Immunisation Schedule information from NHS.
- Safe Sleep Video gives information on ensuring that your baby is sleeping safely?
- NHS Direct Online
Chlamydia Screening Programme
Coeliac Disease
Continence
Counselling and Mental Health
Drugs and Alcohol
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Know the Score: Information on Drugs
- Talk to Frank: Confidential drugs info. & advice
- Addaction
- Narcotics Anonymous UK
- Addictions
Embarrassing Problems
Epilepsy
Eye Problems
Healthy Living
- NHS Choices Healthy eating advice
- BBC Health
- Weight Loss for Good
- 5 A Day - NHS web site on eating more fruit & veg
- NHS Choices - library of interactive tools which includes a healthy weight calculator, guidance to help you check your moles and lots more.
Heart
- British Heart Foundation
- Arrhythmia Alliance - Irregular Heart Beat Info.
- High Blood Pressure Foundation
Losing Weight
- NHS Choices and Nutrition - These sites offers advise on helathy eating, keeping food safe, food labels and different health issues.
- BDA Weightwise - This site offers practical solutions for losing weight
- Teenweightwise - This site offers advise on healthy eating for teenagers
- Diet during pregancy from NHS Choices - advice on what foods to eat, what to avoid, advice on supplements.
Making the Best of your Appointment
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Medicines/Prescriptions
- NHS Choices Medicines Zone Your in-depth guide to medicines, prescriptions, immunisation, contraception and more.
Patient Information - Conditions and Treatments
- Patient Information Website www.patient.co.uk
- Best Treatments Information about which treatments work and which don't based on the best and most up to date medical research.
- NHS Choices Information on conditions, treatments, local services and healthy living.
Pregnancy
- NHS Choices Pregnancy Care Planner - Your NHS guide to having a baby
- Birth Choice UK - NHS Maternity Care
Senior Health
Sexual Health
Stop Smoking
- No Smoking Day - Find out more about people like you ready to kick the habit.
- Click to Quit: Smoking Cessation Advice
- ASH: Action on Smoking and Health
- Smoking Cessation: NHS Choices Site
- Gosmokefree - This website contains detailed information about the free NHS support services.
- Smoking Quitters Cost Tool - Calculate the money you will save with NHS Direct quitters cost calculator and plan how to spend it.
Teenage Health
External Sites:
- Talk to Frank - the A-Z of drugs and ways to help kick the habbit.
- Teenage Health Freak - teenage health problems discussed.
- Visit TheSite - a health website designed specifically for teenagers and under 24's. Provides specific Information on registering with a GP.
- Visit Netdoctor Q and A's - hundreds of health issues experienced by teenagers - written by doctors.
- For more information about young people and doctor confidentiality visit BBC Health.
- Off The Record offers counselling support and information for young people aged 11-25.
- NHS Choices Teenage Health for girls
- NHS Choices Teenage Health for boys