Health & Social Care: useful websites
There is a huge amount of information on the Internet - some of which is useful, some of which is not. The following websites are good starting points for any search for your studies.
During each year of your course you will receive training in a range of information skills.
You may also wish to try the Virtual Training Suite for Health and Social Care or Social Policy tutorials, which are excellent resources for developing your web searching skills.
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The Virtual Training Suite is a range of self-study tutorials that will teach you how to search the web effectively, and how to assess the quality of the resources that you find. These are excellent resources which will improve your web searching skills dramatically. Highly recommended. | |
| Health Information Resources |
This resource is produced by NHS Evidence and is aimed at the UK health professions. It includes a wide range of tools and resources and is an excellent place to start looking for information. |
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This is a developing resource and includes access to databases and other resources as well as practice guidelines and information available to the general public. For this reason a large part of the site is freely accessible but other areas are restricted to medical and nursing professionals and can only be accessed if you have an NHS Athens login id. | |
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The NHS Healthcareworkforce portal provides one-stop access to NHS healthcare workforce planning information, knowledge, intelligence and practical tools. | |
| Health information and advice from the NHS, aimed at the general public. | |
| Website for the Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust. | |
| The BBC's health website, with background information on a wide range of health topics. | |
| Keep up with the latest health-related news from the BBC. | |
| The Department of Health's website. Useful for policy and guidance information. | |
| Publications and statistics from the Department of Health. | |
| Information, advice and useful links from Government departments. | |
| Provides access to statistics about many social and health aspects from national down to local level. Follow the 'Neighbourhood' tab for detailed locality information. |