Useful links
Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC):
www.amrc.org.uk
Biomed Central:
www.biomedcentral.com
British Infection Society:
www.britishinfectionsociety.org
British Medical Association:
www.bma.org.uk
British Medical Journal:
www.bmj.com
Cells Alive:
www.cellsalive.com
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) :
www.cdc.gov
Chief Medical Officer – England:
www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/MinistersandDepartmentLeaders/ChiefMedicalOfficer
Chief Medical Officer – Scotland:
www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/cmo
Chief Medical Officer - Wales:
new.wales.gov.uk
College of Emergency Medicine:
www.emergencymed.org.uk
Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre Northern Ireland (CDSCNI):
www.cdscni.org.uk
Confederation of Meningitis Organisations:
www.COMOonline.org
Department of Health and Children (Republic of Ireland):
www.dohc.ie
Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety - Northern Ireland:
www.dhsspsni.gov.uk
Directgov:
http://www.direct.gov.uk
Directory of Open Access Journals:
www.doaj.org
Electronic medicines compendium:
www.medicines.org.uk
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) :
www.ecdc.eu.int
European Union Invasive Bacterial Infections Surveillance (EU-IBIS) :
www.euibis.org
European vaccine schedules:
www.euvac.net
Eurosurveillance:
www.eurosurveillance.org
Fit for travel:
www.fitfortravel.scot.nhs.uk/
Free Medical Journals:
www.freemedicaljournals.com
Green Book - Immunisation against infectious disease :
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Policyandguidance/Healthandsocialcaretopics/Greenbook/DH_4097254
Guidestar:
www.guidestar.org.uk
Health Promotion Agency - Northern Ireland:
www.healthpromotionagency.org.uk
Health Protection Agency:
www.hpa.org.uk
Health Protection Agency Immunisation Training :
www.hpa.org.uk
Health Protection Scotland:
www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/
Health Protection Surveillance Centre - (Ireland) :
www.ndsc.ie/hpsc
Health Research Board (Republic of Ireland):
www.hrb.ie
Health Service Executive (Republic of Ireland):
www.hse.ie
Health Service Executive Immunisation Website (Republic of Ireland):
www.immunisation.ie
Healthcare A2Z:
www.healthcarea2z.org
Hospital Episodes Statistics:
www.hesonline.nhs.uk
Immunization – you call the shots:
http://www2.cdc.gov/nip/isd
Institute of Public Health (Ireland):
www.publichealth.ie
Irish Immunisation website: Health Service Executive :
www.immunisation.ie
Irish Medicines Board:
www.imb.ie
Irish Nursing Organisation (INO):
www.ino.ie
Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) minutes :
www.advisorybodies.doh.gov.uk/jcvi
Joint Royal Colleges Service Liaison Committee (JRCALC):
jrcalc.org.uk
Know About Pneumo:
www.aboutpneumo.com
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA):
www.mhra.gov.uk
Medscape:
www.medscape.com
Meningitis Trust:
www.meningitis-trust.org
Meningococcal disease in institutes of higher education :
bookshop.universitiesuk.ac.uk
MMR The facts:
www.mmrthefacts.nhs.uk
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR):
www.cdc.gov/mmwr
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence:
www.nice.org.uk
National Library for Health :
www.library.nhs.uk
National Public Health Service Wales:
www.nphs.wales.nhs.uk
National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC) :
www.nathnac.org
Neisseria MLST:
pubmlst.org/neisseria
Neisseria organisation:
neisseria.org
NHS 24 (Confidential health advice and information service for people in Scotland):
www.nhs24.com
NHS Direct:
www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/
NHS Health Scotland:
www.healthscotland.com
NHS Immunisation :
www.immunisation.nhs.uk
NHS Scotland e-Library:
www.elib.scot.nhs.uk
Office for National Statistics – Deaths by Age, Sex and Underlying Cause:
www.statistics.gov.uk
PACE (Pneumococcal Awareness Council of Experts):
www.sabin.org/programs/PACE/index.html
PATH’s Vaccine Resource Library :
www.path.org
pneumoADIP:
www.preventpneumo.org
Public Health Institute of Scotland:
www.phis.org.uk
Pubmed:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pubmed UK :
ukpmc.ac.uk
RAPPID:
www.rappid.org.uk
Royal College of Nursing (RCN):
www.rcn.org
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH):
www.rcpch.ac.uk
Scotland's Health on the Web:
www.show.scot.nhs.uk
Scottish Health Statistics – Infectious Diseases:
www.isdscotland.org
Scottish Public Health Observatory:
www.scotpho.org.uk
Society of Critical Care Medicine:
www.sccm.org/sccm
Symposium office, Imperial College:
www.prossl.com
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pneumococcal Disease Prevention in the Developing World:
www.appg-preventpneumo.org.uk/resources.cfm
The Ear Foundation:
www.earfoundation.org.uk
The Hib Initiative:
www.hibaction.org
The Pink Book - Epidemiology & Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (USA):
www.cdc.gov
The Sanger Centre:
www.sanger.ac.uk
The Vaccine Page:
www.vaccines.org/forpractitioners
Understanding the Immune System:
www.niaid.nih.gov
Wales Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC) Surveillance Reports :
www2.nphs.wales.nhs.uk
WHO:
www.who.int
World Health Organisation Epidemiological Record:
www.who.int
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Page last updated 07.04.08