Health/medical organisations & gateways
Gateways / catalogues
Useful for searching across organisations' websites & finding grey literature: reports & other documents not published in journals
- Health on the Net Foundation: gateway to evaluated web resources - accredited to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
- Amedeo: alerts service - includes overviews of new articles & covers areas such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, mental health, substance abuse...
- UK and International Library Catalogues: includes the British Library Catalogue: useful for finding for printed reports & books
- Scirus: science search engine: advisable to enable 'University of Bath' link via preferences & to enter phrases within speech marks
- WorldWideScience.Org includes references to reports, some of which are available online
- Intute: no longer updated since July 2011 - uses professionals to select & evaluate its links
You might also like to search Google Scholar - although this is a multidisciplinary search engine, this be useful for finding unpublished reports (to get full-text articles: best to access via University/library webpages or set preferences to University of Bath)
Organisations / guidelines
- Organisations supporting research
- Mental Health organisations
- Arthritis Research UK: includes research into a cure for arthritis
- British Medical Association: news, policy, ethics, doctor's wellbeing...
- British Orthopaedic Assocation (BOA)
- Care Quality Commission: independent body assessing & promoting healthcare standards: includes full-text reports, news & guidance
- Clinical Guidelines: broad range of recommendations for NHS treatments & care from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
- Department of Health: Publications & Letters Library Search: full text of most current and many old publications - statistical reports, surveys, press releases, circulars, legislation, some NHS publications...
- Doctors.net.uk - peer-led resource for the UK medical profession: available to all General Medical Council registered doctors and medical students - you need a GMC number to register
- FEANTSA: European Federation of National Organisations working with the Homeless: includes links to health policy documents
- Healthtalkonline: provided by DiPex, based at the University of Oxford & supported by the Dept of Health - for health professionals & patients - also used to teach medical students - includes patients' personal accounts, aiming for more balanced encounters between patients & professionals
- JointZone: a study of rheumatology - website funded by Arthritis Research UK
- King's Fund Publications: includes some topical health reports
- Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA): Government agency with responsibility for ensuring the safety & functionality of medical devices & medicines
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE): an independent organisation offering guidelines related to health promotion and the prevention/treatment of illness - includes a broad range of Clinical Guidelines which offer recommendations for NHS treatments/care
- New Zealand Guidelines Group: "informal network of expertise and information on guideline development and implementation" - offers full-text guidelines from several healthcare organisations
- Pain-Talk: discussion forum for UK nurses, doctors & allied health professionals with an intrest in chronic & acute pain management - free registration is necessary to post messages or reply - run by an NHS nurse specialist in in-patient pain management
- Quackwatch: guide to health fraud, quackery and intelligent decisions; both informative & entertaining
- Royal College of Nursing: events, courses, campaigns, conferences, clinical guidelines & other publications...
- Royal Society of Medicine (RSM): Library, events, publications & some freely available articles via the RSM Catalogue
- Wellcome Library: historical medical books, manuscripts archives, films and images: some documents are available online & others can be accessed for reference-use only at the Wellcome Library in London (free and open to the public)
- World Health Organization (WHO): fact sheets, news, events, contacts, statistics & multimedia
Organisations supporting research
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC): overview of planned & in-progress research in UK & international social sciences
- EQUATOR Network: promotes practices aimed at improving the quality of health research through accuracy & transparency
- Medical Research Council: funding, ethics, Research Portfolio (find out who's researching in which areas)...
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR): NHS news and information about research: calls for proposals, research infrastructure - also note the NIHR Clinical Research Network Coordinating Centre: a non-profit organisation which aims to support good practice in trials & other studies
- RD Direct: advice for health & social care researchers; part of the NHS National Institute for Health Research - includes research flowcharts...
- UK Clinical Research Collaboration: partnership of organisations which aims to improve clinical research
Mental Health organisations
- Centre for Mental Health: free reports & news (which you can also access via RSS Feeds)
- Dementia Services Development Centre: developments & news provided by University of Stirling
- Mental Health Foundation: identifies problems, treatments, issues, policies & services, and provides many links
- Mind: covers policy, news, campaigns & other information
- Sane: includes news, press releases, symptoms & treatments