Useful Links Directory
Links to useful websites and resources
National End of Life Care Programme
The National End of Life Care Programme works with health and social care services across all sectors in England to improve end of life care for adults by implementing the Department of Health’s End of Life Care Strategy. Our website is designed to support health and social care staff working, in any capacity, with people nearing the end of life.
NHS Choices
NHS Choices is the UK’s biggest health website. It provides a comprehensive health information service that puts you in control of your healthcare. The website helps you make choices about your health, from decisions about your lifestyle, such as smoking, drinking and exercise, to finding and using NHS services in England. NHS Choices includes around 20,000 regularly updated articles. There are also hundreds of thousands of entries in more than 50 directories that you can use to find and choose health services in England
Norah Fry Research Centre , University of Bristol
Norah Fry Research Centre was established in 1988, and 2009 marked a celebration of 21 years of continuous research activity. Its principal interests are in the area of social and policy-related research. The Centre aims to make a positive difference to the lives of disabled children, young people and adults – with a particular emphasis on issues for people with learning disabilities and their families.
Nuffield Trust
Nuffield Trust is an authoritative and independent source of evidence-based research and policy analysis for improving health care in the UK. We aim to help provide the evidence base for better health care. Our work programme focuses on a number of key areas in which we have expertise.
Palliative Care of People with Learning Disabilities (NNPCPLD)
The PCPLD Network is a voluntary organisation. In 1998, a small group of learning disability and palliative care professionals came together, concerned by their experience that people with learning disabilities who were facing a life-limiting illness did not seem to access the same services or receive the same quality of service as the rest of the population. Together, they established the National Network for Palliative Care of People with Learning Disabilities (NNPCPLD), which later changed its name to the PCPLD Network.
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
Our role is to investigate complaints that individuals have been treated unfairly or have received poor service from government departments and other public organisations and the NHS in England. We work to put things right where we can and to share lessons learned to improve public services. We are a free service open to everyone.
Personality Disorder
Personality disorders are increasingly recognised as major mental health issues: but they are as much society’s problem, as the individuals who suffer the symptoms. Use this site to find out more about the different personality disorders, including borderline, antisocial and dangerous and severe, and what the diagnosis means. Also keep up with the latest news about what is happening in the world of PD and how you can get involved.
Railway Chidren
Railway Children fights for children living on the streets Railway Children is an international children's charity. We fight for vulnerable children who live alone at risk on the streets, where they suffer abuse and exploitation. In the UK, society often denies their existence, and in other countries the problem is so prevalent that it has become ‘normal’. They run away or are forced to leave homes where they suffer poverty, violence, abuse and neglect. They find themselves living on the streets because there is nowhere else to go and no one left to turn to. The problems they face on the streets are often even worse than those they endured at home. Every day we fight to change their story. Railway Children race to reach children as soon as they arrive on the streets and intervene before an abuser can. Our pioneering work enables us to get to street children before the streets get to them.
Regional Voices for better health
Regional Voices champions the work of voluntary and community organisations to improve health, well-being and care across England. We are a partnership of nine regional networks. Together, we connect to over 25,000 voluntary and community organisations across England. Our coverage is broad, deep and well-established. We are a voluntary sector strategic partner of the Department of Health and work with the Local Government Association and other partners, supporting voluntary and community organisations to understand changes within the NHS and support organisations to influence these changes, in order to achieve better outcomes.
Respond
We aim to make a real difference to people with learning disabilities by providing effective and flexible support to help them to improve their lives. Respond works with children and adults with learning disabilities who have experienced abuse or trauma, as well as those who have abused others, through psychotherapy, advocacy, campaigning and other support. Respond also aims to prevent abuse by providing training, consultancy and research.
Rethink Mental Illness
Rethink Mental Illness is a national charity for everyone affected by mental illness, their families, carers and friends. We challenge attitudes, we change the law, we change lives. We have groups, services and members across England. What we offer is a little bit different.
Rights of Women
Rights of Women have produced a number of information sheets on legal issues affecting women. You can download them here, free of charge. The information contained on this page is not legal advice. If you have a legal problem, you should talk to a lawyer or advisor before deciding what to do. The information given here is written for people resident in or affected by the laws of England and Wales.
Royal College of Nursing
The RCN represents nurses and nursing, promotes excellence in practice and shapes health policies.
Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
Do you work with vulnerable adults? Would you like training to help you develop your safeguarding policy, procedures and good practice? This certified programme is delivered over a day and a half and will raise awareness of vulnerability in adulthood, reporting procedures, how to assess and manage risk, code of behaviour and good practice in recruitment and management of staff and volunteers. The course also highlights the eight minimum standards of practice contained in Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults - A Shared Responsibility and supports organisations in developing or reviewing their safeguarding policy.
Scope
We're all about changing society for the better, so that disabled people and their families can have the same opportunities as everyone else. We work with disabled people and their families at every stage of their lives. We offer practical support – from information services to education and everyday care. We challenge assumptions about disability, we influence decision makers and we show what can be possible. Everything we do is about creating real and lasting positive change in individual lives and in the world around us. We believe that together we can create a better society.
See Me Scotland
‘see me’ is Scotland’s national campaign to end the stigma and discrimination of mental ill-health. We are an alliance of five mental health organisations and fully funded by the Scottish Government
Sense
Sense is a national charity that supports and campaigns for children and adults who are deafblind. Deafblindness refers to a combination of sight and hearing impairment which causes difficulties in a range of areas including communication, access to information and mobility. At Sense we offer high-quality, flexible services across the UK, using skilled staff and a dedicated network of volunteers. We work with a wide range of deafblind and multi-sensory impaired people, as well as those who have a single-sensory impairment with additional needs. We take pride in offering specialist services built around the wishes of each person we support and enabling them to be as independent as possible. We work with children, young people, adults and older people with a progressive sight and hearing loss, offering a range of housing, educational and leisure opportunities.
Social Perspectives Network for Mental Health
The Social Perspectives Network is a unique coalition of service users / survivors, carers, policy makers, academics, students, and practitioners interested in how social factors both contribute to people becoming distressed, and play a crucial part in promoting people’s recovery.
start4life
Whether you’re pregnant or a new parent, you’ll know it can be an overwhelming time with lots of information to take in. Start4Life has loads of tips and advice for a healthy pregnancy, and for feeding and getting your new baby active.
substance.org.uk
Reducing the harm from substance abuse
