Links

Here are some links to related websites that we feel may be useful.

• www.accessmed-msf.org
  Access to essential medicines.
• www.adaa.org
  Anxiety disorders.
• www.adherents.com
  Religious and cultural information and statistics.
• www.adpana.com
  Alcohol and drug problems.
• www.apil.com
  Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) – runs a training division (College of Personal Injury Law (CPIL)) is associate of Sweet & Maxwell publishers in Journal of Personal Injury Law (JPIL).
• www.appeals-service.gov.uk
  Challenging decisions about social security, child support or vaccine damage.
• www.ash.org
  Action on Smoking and Health.
• www.avma.org.uk
  Action against Medical Accidents charity (formerly Action for Victims of Medical Accidents).
• www.bcodp.org.uk
  British Council of Disabled People – national umbrella organisation run by disabled people.
• www.bereavement.org.uk
  Information, support and standards in bereavement care.
• www.b-i-r-d.org.uk
  Brain Injury Rehabilitation & Development charity providing ‘developmental reflexive rehabilitation’ for organic brain dysfunction (brain injury and learning disabilities).
• www.bnpa.org.uk
  British Neuro-Psychiatry Association: exchange of information and inter-disciplinary promotion across psychiatry, neurology, neuropsychology and related neurosciences.
• www.brainandspine.org.uk
  Brain & Spine Foundation charity providing education and research.
• www.brake.org.uk
  Brake – road safety charity seeking prevention of death and injury by education and campaigns, and providing care for bereaved and injured through helpline, support services, police-distributed literature and Road Safety Week.
• www.brt.org.uk
  Brain Research Trust charity funding research into neurological diseases and conditions.
• www.cae.org.uk
  Centre for Accessible Environments (charity providing information and liaising on access).
• www.cafamily.org.uk
  Contact A Family – support for families with disabled children.
• www.careandrepair-england.org.uk
  Care & Repair – charity to improve housing and living conditions of older people and those with disabilities.
• www.carersuk.org
  Carers UK – support for carers.
• www.cbituk.org
  Child Brain Injury Trust charity – helplines, support groups, activity holidays for brothers and sisters, small grants scheme (Hand Up).
• www.cebm.net
  Centre for Evidence Based Medicine – education and support on EBM.
• www.cebmh.com
  Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health – education and research.
• www.clearinghouse.net
  Addiction.
• www.clinicalevidence.org
  British Medical Journal site on 200 conditions and 2000 treatments, including stroke, absence seizures, epilepsy, headaches and migraine, multiple sclerosis.
• www.clinical-skills-net.org.uk
  Clinical Skills Network for students and clinicians.
• www.Connects.org.uk
  Portal for mental health and learning disabilities operated by Mental Health Foundation and Foundation for Learning Disabilities.
• www.cpil.ac
  College of Personal Injury Law (training division of APIL).
• www.crb.gov.uk
  Criminal Records Bureau – helps employers identify who may be unsuitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.
• www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk
  Support for those affected by a death.
• www.csci.org.uk
  Commission for Social Care Inspection.
• www.dda.org.uk
  Disabled Drivers’ Association – campaigns to improve conditions for those with mobility problems (e.g. Blue Badge abuse and congestion charging).
• www.ddmc.org.uk
  Disabled Drivers’ Motor Club – lobbying for disabled drivers and passengers, publishes Disabled Motorist magazine.
• www.dh.gov.uk
  Department of Health.
• www.disclosure.gov.uk
  The Disclosure Service – government site for Criminal Records Bureau searches, particularly for those working with children and vulnerable adults.
• www.dls.org.uk
  Disability Law Service – charity offering free advice to disabled people, family and carers.
• www.dlf.org.uk
  Disabled living foundation.
• www.drc.org.uk
  Disability Rights Commission – equality body monitoring Disability Discrimination Act.
• www.drowsydriving.org
  Drowsy driving.
• www.each.nl
  European Association for Communication in Healthcare (publishes the journal Patient Education & Counseling).
• www.ebissociety.org
  European Brain Injury Society (EBIS) – promotes public awareness, networking, training, promotes patient and family groups, lobbies for epidemiology and other research, publishes head injury evaluation documents.
• www.encephalitis.info
  Encephalitis Information Resource – research, information, support.
• www.epilepsynse.org.uk
  National Society for Epilepsy (NSE) – information, support, research, epilepsy care services.
• www.epilepsy.org.uk
  Epilepsy Action (British Epilepsy Association) – helpline, seminars, support, Sapphire Nurses, ‘Take Control’ campaign, discounts for Seizure (European Journal for Epilepsy).
• www.fledglings.org.uk
  Fledglings – not-for-profit product search service for children with special needs.
• www.foil.org.uk
  Forum of Insurance Lawyers – exchange of information and lobbying on insurance litigation.
• www.gsdnet.org.uk
  Group for Solicitors with Disabilities (GSD).
• www.guardianship.gov.uk
  Public Guardianship Office.
• www.harcourt-international.com
  Elsevier publishes Seizure (European Journal for Epilepsy).
• www.headaches.org
  Headache.
• www.headinjury.com
  Brain Injury Resource Center (operated by Head Injury Hotline, includes journal links).
• www.headway.org.uk
  Headway – the brain injury association (national charity).
• www.healthcarecommission.org.uk
  Regulation, inspection and standards in NHS and independent healthcare.
• www.hodis.org.uk
  National Disabled Persons Housing Service – promoting housing resources for disabled people.
• www.ics.ac.uk
  Intensive Care Society – association for clinicians working in critical care.
• www.i-l-a.fsnet.co.uk
  Independent Living Alternatives – provides full time personal assistants to disabled people who wish to live in their own home.
• www.ilf.org.uk
  Independent Living Funds – financial support to enable disabled people to live in the community rather than residential care.
• www.injuryprevention.com
  International journal for health professionals and others in injury prevention.
• www.internationalbrain.org
  International Brain Injury Association (IBIA) – publishes quarterly International NeuroTrauma Letter, professional members receive Brain Injury journal.
• www.ipsea.org.uk
  Independent Panel for Special Education Advice – free independent advice, tribunal representation and appeals, professional second opinions.
• www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/
  Bandolier – health digest, free journal abstracts, good links.
• www.listening-books.org.uk
  Postal audio books library.
• www.lmca.org.uk
  Long Term Medical Conditions Alliance.
• www.lww.com
  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins – publishes Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation.
• www.medicalert.org.uk
  Charity providing emergency medical information about people’s conditions.
• www.meningitis-trust.org.uk
  Meningitis Trust (national charity) – prevention, quality care, support for life.
• www.migrainehelp.com
  Migraine.
• www.migraine.org.uk
  Migraine Action Association ‘bridging the gap between the patient and the medical world’.
• www.migrainetrust.org
  Migraine Trust – research and patient support.
• www.narcolepsy.org.uk
  Narcolepsy Association UK (UKAN) – promote awareness, local self help groups, research, have narcolepsy recognised as disability by social services, publishes newsletter Catnap.
• www.ncil.org.uk
  National Centre for Independent Living – resource on independent living and direct payments for people with disabilities and those working in the field.
• www.netofcare.org
  Help for carers.
• www.neurology.org
  Neurology journal, official publication of the American Association of Neurology (AAN).
• www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk
  NHS Direct – health encyclopaedia, best treatments, self help.
• www.nice.org.uk
  National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE – from 1 April 2005) – national guidelines on illness prevention and health promotion.
• www.ninds.nih.gov
  National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke – ‘Neuroscience in the New Millennium’ biomedical research funding.
• www.opportunities.org.uk
  Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities – helping people with disabilities find and retain work, support and information for employers.
• www.outsiders.org.uk
  Shy, disabled and socially isolated people aiming to live life to the full (note that SPOD, the relationship and sexuality charity for disabled people, no longer exists).
• www.patients-association.com
  The Patients’ Association – listening to patients, speaking up for change.
• www.peopil.com
  Pan European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers – to improve communication and co-operation between European jurisdictions on personal injury law.
• www.phabengland.org.uk
  PHAB – national charity dedicated to promoting and encouraging the coming together on equal terms of disabled and non-disabled people to achieve an integrated and inclusive society.
• www.radar.org.uk
  RADAR – the disability network (campaigning and advising national charity).
• www.remap.org.uk
  Technical equipment for disabled people – custom-made aids.
• www.remploy.co.uk
  Interwork Employment Services (support for employers, workers and jobseekers); Ethical Enterprise (products and services).
• www.respond.org.uk
  Challenging vulnerability and sexual abuse in the lives of people with learning disabilities.
• www.resus.org.uk
  Resuscitation Council UK – education and references to healthcare professionals and the general public on resuscitation practice.
• www.riding-for-disabled.org.uk
  Giving disabled people the opportunity to horse ride or carriage drive to benefit their health and well being.
• www.roadpeace.org
  National charity for road crash victims and bereaved families – helpline, research, support and campaigns (including international).
• www.rospa.co.uk or www.rospa.com
  Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents – information, advice, training, resources, campaigns.
• www.shelter.org.uk
  Homelessness and housing charity – housing advice, campaigns, working with housing sector.
• www.sig.net/~allergy/welcome.html
  Allergies.
• www.special-needs-kids.co.uk
  Advice and support on products and services for children with special needs.
• www.spinalcord.org
  Spinal Cord Injury Association.
• www.stroke.org.uk
  The Stroke Association – research, campaigns, information, support, Stroke News.
• www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk
  Sweet & Maxwell site, publishes Journal of Personal Injury Law in association with APIL
• www.tandf.co.uk/journals
  Taylor & Francis Group – publishes Brain Injury and other neurology and neuroscience journals
• www.tcf.org.uk
  The Compassionate Friends – support for parents and family after the death of a child.
• www.theabn.org
  The Association of British Neurologists – promoting education in and advancement of the neurological sciences.
• www.the-sequal-trust.org.uk
  Specialised Equipment Aids for Living – bridging the gap between communication and disability.
• www.3hfund.org.uk
  Help the Handicapped Holiday Fund – subsidised group holidays for physically disabled children and adults with volunteers (to enable family respite).
• www.ukabif.org.uk
  United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum – advises the All-Party Parliamentary Group on brain injury, the general public, organises events and conferences.
• www.uk-sobs.org.uk
  Survivors of bereavement by suicide.
• www.vitalise.org.uk
  Vitalise – essential breaks for disabled people and carers (formerly the Winged Fellowship Trust) at accessible centres in Cornwall, Southampton, Essex, Nottingham and Southport.
• www.youramazingbrain.org.uk
  Wellcome Trust and At-Bristol site: explore your brain, take part in real life experiments, test yourself with games, illusions and brain benders.