Babies And young Children
Health Departments
- Torbay and Southern Devon Health Care Trust
- South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust
- Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
- Devon Partnership NHS Trust
- Department of Health
- National Health Service
- NHS Direct
- Medical Research Council Clinical trials unit
- Dept of Health (Cancer)
Benefits And Services
Medical Information Searches
- NetDoctor
- Controlled Trials
- Intelihealth
- Beating Bowel Cancer
- Brain and Spine foundation
- Mouth Cancer Foundation
- Ochre Charity
- Ovarian Cancer Action
- Orchid
- National Cancer Institute, US
- Irish Cancer Society
- Abramson Cancer Centre, US
- National Organisation for Rare Diseases
- World Health Organisation
- World Health Organisation
Counselling
- CRUSE – Bereavement Care We are here to help you through a difficult time. Cruse exists to promote the well-being of bereaved people and to enable anyone bereaved by death to understand their grief and cope with their loss. Services are free to bereaved people, but we rely on donations to fund our work.
- MEND – Fitter, Healthier, Happier Families We help children and their families become fitter, healthier and happier by offering free healthy living programmes in the local community.
- Relate Relate offers advice, relationship counselling, sex therapy, workshops, mediation, consultations and support face-to-face, by phone and through their website.
- Torbay Mental Health Resources Much of the information on this site also appears in the “Mental Health Information Directory” compiled by Malcolm Widlake and is available online at www.torbay.gov.uk/index/socialcare/mentalhealthdirectory.htm (shown below)
- Mental Health Information Directory This Directory has been produced to provide a reliable source of information about services available to mental health professionals, and people with mental health problems, their families, friends and carers.
Travel and Fitness
- Fit For Travel‘ fitfortravel’ is a public access website provided by the NHS (Scotland). It gives travel health information for people travelling abroad from the UK. Remember that you should always discuss your particular needs with your own Doctor or Nurse.
- DVLA The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is an Executive Agency of the Department for Transport (DfT).
- Drinkaware – Calculator & Diary Information about alcohol and drinking.
- Travel Advice