External Links

General Health

  • www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk - Official NHS web site for health and medical information.
  • www.patient.co.uk - Comprehensive, up-to-date health information as provided by GPs to patients during consultations
  • www.embarassingproblems.co.uk - Can help you deal with health problems that worry you and that are difficult for you to discuss with anyone
  • www.kidshealth.org - Provides doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence

Women's Health

Mental Health

  • www.lanarkshirementalhealth.org.uk - eLanarkshire Mental Health Resources. Contains an excellent self help guide for mild depression, among other useful topics.
  • Panic Online - Online resource and treatment program for people with panic disorder
  • www.mentalhealth.org.uk - A UK charity for everyone's mental health
  • www.mind.org.uk - Site promoting better mental health.
  • www.nopanic.org.uk - Support for sufferers of Panic Attacks, Phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, General Anxiety Disorder and Tranquilliser Withdrawal.

Other

  • www.bhf.org.uk - The British Heart Foundation
  • www.diabetes.org.uk - Diabetes UK is the largest organisation in the UK working for people with diabetes, funding research, campaigning and helping people live with the condition.
  • www.lanarkshiresexualhealth.org - eLanarkshire Sexual Health Resources. Up to date information regarding local family planning and genito-urinary medicine clinic times can be found on this site.
  • www.lunguk.org - Useful information and advice for people with lung diseases such as asthma and COPD
  • www.painclinic.org - Provides information, help and advice for pain sufferers and their carers on the diagnosis and treatment of common acute and chronic pain complaints.
  • www.rapecrisisscotland.org.uk - National office for rape crisis and sexual abuse centres