Health and Social Care Information in Oldham Libraries

Books for lending on a wide selection of health and socail care related issues.

  • You can search the Oldham Library Catalogue here
  • Health encyclopaedias including the Gale Encyclopaedia of Medicine and the Encyclopaedia of Family Health.
  • Medical dictionaries including Blacks and the Dictionary of Nursing and Medicines
  • Directories including the Medical Register, the Institute of Healthcare Management Yearbook and the British Register for Alternative Practice
  • Journals including Health Service Journal, The Lancet, the British Medical Journal and Here's Health.
  • Free leaflets to take away.
  • Easy access to key health websites via the public computers. These include:

Health related websites

Best Treatments

Clinical evidence for patients and doctors

British Ethnic Health Awareness Foundation

Is the website of the British Ethnic Health Awareness Foundation. It provides a helpline for English, Urdu and Punjabi speakers on 0161 721 4109

Contact a Family

Contact a Family is a charity set up to help the parents of children born with rare conditions. The site provides information on the conditions and details of support groups.

Disability Action Oldham

Information and links about mental health and wellbeing for individuals, professionals and carers

The Department of Health website.

OMNIA guide to quality Internet resources in health and medicine.

Medline Plus

Over 600 topics on conditions, diseases and wellbeing.

National Electronic Library for Health

Provides links for healthcare professionals but anyone is welcome to use it. A very useful feature is 'Hitting the Headlines' which researches health issues and scares which have recently made the news in order to provide the real evidence behind the headline itself.

The National Health Service

This site connects you to your local NHS services and provides national information about the NHS. Find out what the NHS is, how the NHS works, and how you can use it.

NHS Direct

A reliable gateway to health information on the Internet aimed at patients and carers. Some sections have audio versions in Urdu, Gujerati, Punjabi, Bengali and Hindi.

NMAH

A guide to quality Internet resources in Nursing, Midwifery and the Allied Health professions

Patient UK

Includes hundreds of leaflets, contact information for over 2000 self help groups and a directory of other health websites.

Surgery Door

Health information for everyone.

Social Care related websites

www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk

A huge directory of information and research on all aspects of social care.

www.afbp.org.uk

Action for Blind People is an expert national organisation, ensuring blind and partially sighted people receive practical support in all aspects of their lives.

www.helptheaged.org.uk

Help the Aged is a charity providing advice and support on issues that affect older people, including pensions, benefits, tax, housing choices, healthy ageing and home safety.

www.alzheimers.org.uk

The UK’s leading care and research charity for people with dementia, their families and carers.

www.deaf247.co.uk

Directory of British Sign Language and deaf related resources.

www.jrf.org.uk

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation.  One of the largest social policy research and development charities in the UK, spending about £10 million a year on a research and development programme that seeks to better understand the causes of social difficulties and explore ways of overcoming them.

www.rnib.org.uk

The website of the Royal National Institute of Blind People. Supporting blind and partially sighted people

www.rnid.org.uk

The website of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People. RNID is the largest charity working to change the world for the UK’s 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people.

www.sense.org.uk

Sense is the UK's largest organisation for children and adults who are deafblind or have associated disabilities