Subject guides: Medicine: Subject websites

National Health Service gateway

Department of Health for information about the Department and its work. It also offers you easy access to the wide range of publications, policy and guidance documents
Evidence Search - a digital library for NHS staff, patients and the public
Evidence Search Health and Social Care- specialist library of the National Library for Health focused on research, guidance and best practice in population health
NICE - National Institute of Clinical Excellence guidelines

NIHR Evidence
On NIHR Evidence, you’ll find plain language summaries of health and care research that’s funded by the NIHR.

All Refer a collection of good educational information . Aimed at students, teachers, and researchers. AllRefer.com has extensive information from trusted sources on over 150,000 articles from brief encyclopaedia, gazetter, and health encyclopaedia. Most major topics are covered including health and medicine, science and technology, social science, law. Reference collection and a Health collection are available.
Healthopedia Resource aimed at both patients and health professionals containing comprehensive and unbiased information in patient-friendly language from trusted sources on over 1,500 health topics, 70 focussed health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and medications.
NHS National Institute for Health Research Research Design Service for the East Midlands. Resources from all areas of health services research.
WWW Virtual Library: Medicine organises links by subject.

EQUIP: Electronic Quality Information for Patients NHS gateway for patients, carers and families with a support group search,and a find your nearest... listing, as well as disease-based information topics.
NHS Direct Online The NHS gateway to consumer information (health encyclopaedia, healthy living, NHS services) and a self-help guide for immediate health advice.
Informed Health Online (Previously the Cochrane Consumer Network) Browse or search the plain-English summaries, then follow the link from each summary to the related Cochrane Library abstracts. There are also Hot Topics, background articles about research and a dictionary of research terms,as well as links and guides for finding health information on the internet.
Medline Plus: Health Information from the National Library of Medicine Health topics (including interactive tutorials for some of the conditions and procedures described), drug information, dictionaries, directories, news, other resources.
Patient.co.uk - information for patients and carers as provided by GPs

BMJ Clinical Evidence - authoritative medical resources for informing treatment decisions and improving patient care
BMJ Learning - continuing professional development (CPD) and postgraduate training website for doctors and other healthcare professionals
Doctors.net.uk - online learning modules and discussion forum for doctors
eGuidelines - UK and European clinical guidelines developed by clinicians and sponsored by the relevant independent professional bodies
eMedicine - open access comprehensive medical textbook for all clinical fields
General Practice notebook - a reference encyclopaedia for clinicians in the UK
Global Library of Women's Medicine - comprehensive reference source for women's medicine
GP Learning - online educational modules developed by and for primary practitioners
National Prescribing Centre - NHS resource covering prescribing, therapeutics and medicines management
Macmillan Cancer Support - Macmillan has created a series of 15 Rich Pictures on the different groups within the two million people living with cancer. They each summarise the numbers, needs and experiences of these different groups of people.