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