is an independent charitable foundation working to improve health care. Its library catalogue includes many journal articles and websites as well as books and reports. There are also excellent reading lists on a wide range of health topics.
Patient organisations and information for patients
Patient InfoTrusted health information for patients and professionals.
Patient Information ForumFor health information producers, for all sectors and at all levels. The network has over 450 members across the UK in the NHS, voluntary, public and commercial sectors and in academia.
HealthWatchUK charity that supports and encourages scientific testing of conventional, complementary and alternative medicine and therapies.
NIHR INVOLVEUK national advisory group which supports greater public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research.
HealthTalk.orgHealthTalk.org contains videos and written information recording experiences of health and illness from more than 2000 people. The information is based on qualitative research undertaken at the University of Oxford. Subjects covered include cancer, dying and bereavement, pregnancy, later life and young people.
Patient voicesUses digital story-telling to improve medical professionals' education and influence policy-makers.
is a deep web-search portal which simultaneously searches a large number of web resources in the field of health and medicine, and ranks the results for you.