Defence Healthcare: Useful Websites
This guide contains resources, help and support from the library for Defence Healthcare.
Not all websites are of academic standard or trustworthy. The following websites are related to your profession and have standing within your industry. They may be helpful for current awareness, your professional development, or specific forms of information relevant to your studies.
- Armed Forces HealthcareNHS Healthcare information for military personnel and veterans, including getting treatment and contacts.
- RCN Defence Nursing ForumRoyal College of Nursing: Defence Nursing Forum
Representing members who work in the field of the military - GOV.UK Defence Medical ServicesThese Ministry of Defence pages outline the role of Defence Medical Services and links to the latest news in Defence Health care.
- Kings Centre for Military ResearchKCMHR is the leading civilian UK Centre of excellence for military health research and independent of the UK Ministry of Defence. Their work has helped shape government policy towards military personnel.
- Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP)Set of eight critical appraisal tools designed to be used when reading research, including tools for Systematic Reviews, Randomised Controlled Trials, Cohort Studies, Case Control Studies, Economic Evaluations, Diagnostic Studies, Qualitative studies and Clinical Prediction Rule
- Casualty MonitorMonitoring and analysis of data on civilian and British military casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq
- MedPixOpen-access online database of medical images, teaching cases, and clinical topics, integrating images and textual metadata including over 12,000 patient case scenarios, 9,000 topics, and nearly 59,000 images.
- National Audit Office: Treating injury and illness arising on military operationsMinistry of Defence report on Treating Injury and Illness arising on Military Operations - 2010 report
- European Commission: Humanitarian aid and civil protection (ECHO)Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations work to preserve lives, prevent and alleviate human suffering and safeguard populations affected by natural disasters and man-made crises
- UNHCRThe UN Refugee Agency UK. UNHCR leads international action to protect people forced to flee conflict and persecution and those denied a nationality.
- MOD National and Official Statistics by topicA list of Ministry of Defence National and Official Statistics publications, arranged by topic.
- Burnett Library WhittingtonDefence Medical Library Service at Whittington Barracks
- NHS Acronym busterNHS Acronym Buster has over a thousand commonly used healthcare abbreviations for you to access when you need them.
- UK Health Security AgencyOne of the organisations taking the place of Public Health England. Responsible since April 2021 for UK-wide public health protection and infectious disease capability, and replacing Public Health England. It is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care..
- Office for Health Improvement & DisparitiesOne of the organisations (together with the UK Health Security Agency) taking the place of Public Health England. This Office focusses on improving the nation’s health so that everyone can expect to live more of life in good health, and on levelling up health disparities to break the link between background and prospects for a healthy life..