Introduction:
A health initiative in your community with displays, information, leaflets and books on a wide range of health topics with materials supporting key national health events. There are also details of local health support groups and organisations.
Where:
- all libraries hold some health information, please ask if you can't see what you need.
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Useful resources:
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NHS Direct Online
or call the 24-hour help line 0845 46 47. In an emergency dial 999. NHS Direct offers health advice 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
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NHS Choices
is a good place to find doctors, dentists, hospitals and other health services in the UK, as well as many other useful health resources. This information is fully searchable by postcode. It also features an A-Z of treatments and conditions.
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Patient UK
is a directory of health, disease and related websites from the UK edited by two GPs whose aim is to direct non-medical people in the UK to quality information about health and disease. In addition to sections on specific illnesses and on health advice, there is also a useful directory of patient self-help and support groups.
If you can't find the information you need please ask a librarian.
Local information
Health books
- Access the wide collection of health books held in Cambridgeshire Libraries by searching the online catalogue for the subject and placing a hold so the book can be sent to your local library for collection.
- Use the online library to search the medical books in Oxford Reference Online and Credo Reference
Cancer Support information
Books on Prescription
- A scheme where GPs and other health professionals can give their patients information about recommended books and offer a Book on Prescription.
- All libraries have the top most popular titles in the Cambridgeshire Books on Prescription scheme. These books are free for anyone to borrow, even if you don't have a prescription form. The full collections are at Barnwell Road, Cambourne, Central Library Cambridge, Ely, Huntingdon, March, St Ives and St Neots Libraries. Titles from the full collection can be held and sent to the library of your choice.
Countering Stigma in Dementia Through Creativity
- Cambridgeshire Libraries have been privileged to have John Killick as Poet in Residence working with people with memory loss in Cambridgeshire during 2009. For details of the project and how to order ‘The Elephant in the Room’, the book of poems created with the words of people with memory loss, please see Poet in Residence 2009 - Countering Stigma in Dementia Through Creativity.