RECOMMENDED WEBSITES
Information on the Internet is extensive and continually expanding but the quality can be very patchy. A lot of the information on the Internet is unregulated. Listed below is some Internet websites of interest.
Healthcare information
www.nhs.uk National Health Service Website
http://www.gpnotebook.co.uk Database of clinical medicine relevant to general practice
www.nice.org.uk National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
www.evidence.nhs.uk Rapid access to evidence based info provided by NICE
www.mentalhealth.org.uk Mental Health Foundation
www.merck.com Merck, Sharpe and Dohme site
www.bmj.com/bmj BMJ online
www.thelancet.com Lancet online
www.fco.gov.uk Foreign office advice
www.istm.org Int Soc of travel medicine
www.lilly.com Eli Lilley for diabetes
www.mwsearch.com Searches for medical topics
Patient Information
www.patient.co.uk Information and leaflets
www.tht.org.uk Terence Higgins Trust
www.smokefree.nhs.uk NHS give up smoking advice
www.diabetic.org.uk Diabetes, adults
www.epilepsy.org.uk Epilepsy
www.cancerresearchuk.org Cancer Research
General Information
www.gptutorbartsandthelondon.org Academic Unit for Community Based Medical Education
www.direct.gov.uk Government information
https://cks.nice.org.uk/#?char=A Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS)- National Institute for Health a Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Please let us know if there are other useful websites that you regularly use with your students
