Useful links for professionals

General

• Healthcare Commission - independent inspection body for both the NHS and independent healthcare.

• The International Network of Paediatric Surveillance Units (INoPSU)  - details its work in rare disorders in children.

• National Library for Health - The mission of the National Library for Health (NLH) is to help patients and professionals use best current knowledge in decision-making.

• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence - an independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health.

• Counselling Directory - an independent directory providing the UK with a huge counselling support network, enabling thosein distressto find a counsellor close to them and appropiate for their needs.

   

Health at work

• Dover Counselling Centre  - offer:

  • Employee counselling services - supervision & support; personal supervision/support for counsellors; doctors, teachers and others with pastoral care responsibilities; personnel, welfare, occupational health workers and others who use counselling skills in their work

  • Critical incident stress debriefing: this service is offered to employers including structured debriefing for groups of staff/people involved in traumatic incidents.

  • General counselling

  • Coping with a major personal crisis

• NHS Plus - Health at Work - a network of NHS occupational health (OH) departments across England, supplying quality services to non-NHS employers.

Magazines and Journals

• British Medical Journal (BMJ) - General medical journal website.

• Health Service Journal   - An independent weekly news and current affairs magazine about health policy and management.

• The Lancet  - Online version of the medical profession's journal.

Research, training and development

• Centre for Health Service Studies - an interdisciplinary research centre which supports research in the NHS in Kent, Surrey and Sussex and has a programme of national and international health services research and research training.

• Healthcare Skills - provides a variety of online tutorials for healthcare professionals and those allied with healthcare.

• NHS Live - a free, national learning network supporting staff, patients and their communities to realise local ideas for improvement.

• RD info   -  provides researchers with direct access to up to the minute information on health-related funding and training opportunities.
• RD Direct   - contains  information relevant to health research,  whether you are an experienced researcher or a beginner.
• RD Learning   - contains information on all the health-related courses and training opportunities in the UK.