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General sites
Nottingham County Primary Care Trust
This is the administrative body in charge of medical services at Keyworth Medical Practice www.nottspct.nhs.uk
Principia is an administrative body that provides services more locally (Rushcliffe area) www.nottinghamprincipia.nhs.uk/
Certain facets of their activity are direct services for patients. There is also lots of local service information
Nottingham University Hospitals (QMC and City) www.nuh.nhs.uk
Benefits or otherwise of alternative therapies www.quackwatch.com
NHS Direct Online. Self help information. A mustvisit!
www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk
Center for disease control and prevention. USA site but
good on global health news travel immunisation www.cdc.gov/travel/
Another comprehensive Travel site
www.fitfortravel.scot.nhs.uk/
Advice and statistics on common infectious diseases from the Health Protection Agency www.hpa.org.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
www.whoopingcough.net was set up by Dr Doug Jenkinson who worked at this practice from 1974 to 2011. Several studies of whooping cough outbreaks were done during these years and achieved national and international notice. They made a large contribution to the introduction of whooping cough vaccine to the preschool booster in 2001. The site helps people to diagnose themselves and provides a unique body of information based on real cases.
Prostate cancer testing www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/prostate/prostate-patient-info-sheet.pdf
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