- NHS Direct
Official website for the NHS 24 hour telephone helpline, NHS Direct. Information about health problems, on how to keep healthy and advice on when to call for help.
- BBC Health
General news and information about health including a message board and "Ask the Doctor" service.
- Medscape
Features medical journal articles, images, case reports and medical news.
- Net Doctor
Extensive collection of health information for patients, provided by an independent commercial company with a team of medical editors
- St. John Ambulance
The UK's leading First Aid, transport and care charity.
- Count Me In Calendar
An innovative way of finding out about upcoming awareness weeks (such as National Epilepsy Week).
- UK Health Centre
The web's most comprehensive and up to date index of UK health and medical Internet resources.
- The Consumer Health Information Centre
An advice service set up to help users understand more about health, including hints and tips to stay healthy and ways to get back on their feet when illness strikes
- Medicdirect.co.uk
Extensive Web site containing a good collection of medical information
- Organising Medical Networked Information (OMNI)
Offers free access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites covering health and medicine.
- Health On the Net Foundation
Non-profit organisation aiming to raise the quality of health care information available on the Internet.
Epilepsy Action cannot be held responsible for the content, or support any information or services provided in any of the websites linked to on this page. Nor does the inclusion of a link to any other website constitute a recommendation.
Links
- Children and education
- Complementary therapies
- Counselling and advice
- Disability resources
- Employment and training
- Epilepsy Organisations - International
- Epilepsy organisations - UK and Ireland
- General health information
- Government and official bodies
- Identity jewellery
- Living aids
- Medical journals
- Medical professional bodies
- Medication aids
- Medication, treatments and drugs
- Patients' organisations
- Safety alarms
- Solicitors
- Travel and transport
Epilepsy Helpline
- UK freephone 0808 800 5050
- International +44 113 210 8850
- Online Tuesdays 1900-2100
- Email: helpline@epilepsy.org.uk
- Txt msg: 07797 805 390 info
Epilepsy Action blog
Epilepsy Action is looking for people to take part in the Great North Run this October.
Monica Cooper, Epilepsy Action's epilepsy services manager, took part in BBC Radio 4's 'Law in Action' programme this week.
Welcome to the first posting in the new Epilepsy Action blog.





