Links to helpful and interesting sites.......
Useful Links pages kindly sponsored by youreable.com
An excellent site for information, products and services for disabled people.
News and Information for the Disabled Community.
An excellent Australian Forum - check it out, join the forum and chat with other disabled people!
Click here for excellent technical advice and reviews of powerchairs.
The BHAS website
This website contains information and advice on sickness and disability benefits such as :
* Disability Living Allowance
* Attendance Allowance
* Incapacity Benefit
* Work and Benefits for people with learning
difficulties
Downloadable guides: disability living allowance, attendance allowance, incapacity benefit & employment. Plus training, news and forums. For people with long-term physical or mental health conditions, carers and support workers.
An alphabetical directory of over 780 UK self help group websites.
The Joseph Patrick Trust, part of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, provides vital financial support towards specialist equipment to help promote mobility and independence and empower people with muscular dystrophy or a related muscle disease. Since 1986 over £3 million has been given out in grants making a huge difference to over 5,000 people with muscular dystrophy.
DISS-The UK's leading National Database of Disability Information!
Providers of a comprehensive national database of disability information, making available a hard-working and versatile tool for information providers around the UK.
Welcome to DIAL UK
Serving the Disability Advice Network
Welcome to DIAL UK, a national organisation for a network of approximately 130 local disability information and advice services run by and for disabled people. Last year DIALs helped over a quarter of a million disabled people.
# 681 leaflets on health and disease, some of which have been translated. Most GPs in the UK use these same leaflets to print out for patients and carers during consultations.
# Details of 1967 patient support / self help groups and similar organisations.
# Comprehensive information about medicines and online pharmacy.
# Advice on leading a healthy lifestyle, health promotion and preventing illness.
# Explanations and information about tests and investigations commonly performed.
# A directory of UK websites on disease, health news, events, equipment, helplines, benefits, NHS information, carers' issues, dictionaries, women's health, evidence based medicine, etc.
# Recommended books on health and disease mainly written by UK authors.
# Links to PatientPlus records - quick reference articles used by UK medical professionals.
# Patient Experience - real experiences of medical conditions.
# Find a GP, specialist, hospital, dentist, therapist, counsellor, etc.
# Quotes and information about health / medical insurance and other financial products
# Thinking about having an operation done privately? Find the best prices.
