Useful Online Resources
Below are a selection of websites and links to informative and helpful resources,
please contact your library for further information. You can also download a PDF with helpful sites on here.
Health Bookmarks
delicious.com/bolton_pct_library - This a link to a site dedicted to health bookmarks created by and relevant to us here at the library and hopefully to you too. This is an ever growing and evolving list from external sites such as relevant charity and focus groups, national bodies etc. BE AWARE - This is a public site and we have no control over what is on the site away from our page. We STRONGLY recommend that you stay within the realm of our page and links, as we are not responsible for the contents of those pages.
Health Information on the Internet
There are literally millions of health websites out there on the Internet. Most of them are unvalidated and may contain information that is unreliable and even harmful to patients. Toolkits to enable healthcare professionals to assess the reliability of health websites are available and include:
The following, very far from exhaustive, lists offer links to different sorts of health websites.
Health Gateways
These sites contain links or search engines to websites containing information that has been independently validated by teams of health professionals.
Additional Databases
These sites contain databases that are not available on the National Library for Health site. They each possess unique features that may render them helpful to healthcare professional in particular circumstances:
Health Statistics
These sites contain health related statistical information, or links to other sites containing such information:
Patient Information
These sites provide useful resources and advice for patients and their carers:
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