Health Professional Sites

• General Medical Search Engines
  These prioritise quality medical information unlike Google

  • SearchMedica 

  • The Best Medical Search Engine

  • imedsearch

• General Electronic Healthbooks

  • GP Notebook

  • CKS by NICE

  • NBMedical Handbook

• Evidence-Based Sites
  Just type in your clinical terms e.g. sciatica nonsteroidals

  • Cochrane Reviews

  • TRIP Database 

  • PubMed

  • Chris Yates EBM website and Cates plots (explaining risk to patients)

• Specific Clinical Sites

  • Arthritis Research UK (joints)

  • DermNet (skin)

Patient information sites

• Patient.co.uk

• Healthline (better that patient.co.uk in many places)

• NHS Choices  (brilliant videos)

• WebMD (brilliant diagrams, videos and PILS)

Patients’ Experiences of Illness

DIPEx was established in 2001 by GP Dr Ann McPherson CBE and Dr Andrew Herxheimer after their own experiences of illness. Ann had been diagnosed with breast cancer and although she knew all the medical information, couldn’t find anyone else to talk to about the personal and emotional side of having the disease. This, and Herxheimer’s experience of knee replacement surgery, prompted them to come up with the idea of a patient experience website.  DIPEx later become know as HealthTalk.   How about sharing this with your patients so that they can see what other people have gone through which may answer many of their unanswered questions.

• http://www.healthtalk.org/

• http://www.dipexinternational.org/

 

 

 

If there are any others you would like to add to this list, please let me know rameshmehay@googlemail.com