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Useful Health and Social Care Links

Health and Social Care

News

• BBC Health: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/default.stm  

Official sites

• Care Quality Commission: http://www.cqc.org.uk  
• Department of Health: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/index.htm  
• Health and Safety Executive: http://www.hse.gov.uk/  

Scotland

• Better Health, Better Care: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2009/01/20104611  
• Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care: http://www.carecommission.com/  

Professional bodies and charities

• The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents: http://www.rospa.com/index.htm  
• Age Concern: http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/  
• Carers UK: http://www.carersuk.org/Home  
• Help the Aged: http://www.helptheaged.org.uk/en-gb  
• Alzheimers Society: http://alzheimers.org.uk/site/index.php  
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence: http://www.nice.org.uk/
• MesotheliomaTreatment.net: http://www.MesotheliomaTreatment.net

Products and Services

• Clairmont plc: http://www.clairmontplc.com/
• Clairmontplc have 10 years experience in providing products to assist carers and sufferers of Alzheiner’s in their daily living. Products assist those with memory and visual problems by using best practice in utilising images and colours to give ideal cueing when required. Products include signs, wall murals and the new communication tool Choices for Alzheimer’s. The web site will provide easy to use and understand information for newly diagnosed sufferers and their carers.

Palliative Care

Newsletters and feeds

• Nursing Times and NT Daily News: www.nursingtimes.net  
• News
• BBC Health: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/default.stm  

Official sites

• Department of Health: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/index.htm  
• National Audit Office: http://www.nao.org.uk/publications/0708/end_of_life_care.aspx  
• End of life care programme (NHS site): http://www.endoflifecareforadults.nhs.uk/eolc/  

Professional bodies and charities

• Association for Children's Palliative Care: http://www.act.org.uk/  
• Association of Hospice and Palliative Care Chaplains: http://www.ahpcc.org.uk/  
• Association for Palliative Medicine: http://www.palliative-medicine.org/  
• Gold Standards Framework: http://www.goldstandardsframework.nhs.uk/  

Scotland

• Living and Dying Well: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/10/01091608/0  
• Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care: http://www.palliativecarescotland.org.uk