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This page is primarily intended for non-health professionals, people who came here by accident, and are looking for more appropriate sources of information. Here are a few suggestions.

Looking for information on a particular topic? Often typing your query into a general internet search engine is remarkably effective. Try visiting Google, probably the best search engine of them all, and enter your search there.

Other sites that might be of interest include:

General

Plenty of info, including NHS and non-NHS organisations around the country. Includes contact details for various self help and support groups. Curiously, it tells the Scots to go away and use the HEBS site (below), as it is for England & Wales, but don't let that stop you.

www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk

A wide range of consumer health information.

www.hebs.scot.nhs.uk

A site run by two GPs in the UK, designed to help patients find the information they need. Recommended.

www.patient.co.uk

An American government site, providing extensive health information. See also CancerNet, below, from the same source.

www.nih.gov/health/consumer/

Cancer

BACUP is a UK based organisation providing information and support for those with cancer, and their families and carers.

www.cancerbacup.org.uk

A service of the National Cancer Institute, of the United States. It's PDQ section provides detailed information on cancer management for patients as well as health professionals.

cancernet.nci.nih.gov