Health and Social Care: Useful Websites
This guide contains resources, help and support from the library for Health and Social Care
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.
- Public Health England: All Our Health about the frameworkThe UK Government's health promotion framework
- 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
- Department of HealthThe Department of Health (DH) helps people to live better for longer. They lead, shape and fund health and care in England.
- West Midlands Safeguarding Children GroupWest Midlands Child Protection and Safeguarding Procedures Manual
- UK ParliamentLatest reports and news from UK parliament
- NHS EnglandNHS England provides links to key policy documents and statistics.
- RSPH Allied Health Professionals HubResources for all UK AHPs to protect and improve public health
- Nuffield Trust: Health and Social Care ExplainedSpotlights on some of the top issues facing the health and social care system in the UK.
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities: StatisticsHealth research and statistics from the UK Government
- 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..