UK Medical Organsiations
NHS - Official government site with information about the history, function and structure of the NHS.
Website: www.nhs.uk

NHS Direct – Advice and health information service available 24 hours a day via the Internet, telephone, and digital satellite television.
Website: www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk
 
National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) - NICE is an independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health.
Website: www.nice.org.uk 

BUPA – Health information
Website: www.bupa.co.uk 

Royal Society for the Promotion of Health (RSPH) - society aims to promote continuous improvement in human health through education, communication, and the encouragement of scientific research.
Website: www.rsph.org 

Mental Health
Mental Health Care – Comprehensive information about mental illnesses
Website: www.mentalhealthcare.org.uk

Mental Health Foundation – Uses research and practical projects to help people survive, recover from and avert mental health problems.
Website: www.mentalhealth.org.uk

Mind – Offers many services including helplines, drop-in centres, supported housing, counselling, befriending, advocacy, employment and training schemes.
Website: www.mind.org.uk

PsychNet-UK – Mental health and psychology directory.
Website: www.psychnet-uk.com

Samaritans – Provides 24 hour, confidential emotional support to any person who is suicidal or despairing.
UK Helpline: 08457 909090
Website: www.samaritans.org.uk

Sane – Offers information, crisis care and emotional support.
Helpline: 0845 767 8000
Website: www.sane.org.uk

SupportLine – Offers confidential emotional support for children, young adults and adults.
Website: www.supportline.org.uk

Threshold Women – Women’s mental health organisation providing an infoline, factsheets and emotional support. All calls answered by women.
Website: www.thresholdwomen.org.uk

YoungMinds – Works to promote the mental health and emotional wellbeing of children and young people.
Website: www.youngminds.org.uk

OCD Action – For people with obsessive compulsive disorder and related disorders such as body dysmorphic disorder, compulsive skin picking and trichotillomania.
Website: www.ocdaction.org.uk

Addiction
Gamblers Anonymous UK - Support group offering help and advice for compulsive gamblers.
Website: www.gamblersanonymous.org.uk

ASH - Information on the effects of smoking on health, its costs and current legislation.
Website: www.ash.org.uk

Narcotics Anonymous – A self-help group run by recovering addicts, with a network of meetings across England, Scotland and Wales.
Website: www.ukna.org

HIT - A drug training, information and publications service for individuals, community groups, and health and social care agencies.
Website: www.hit.org.uk

Talk to Frank - Email and telephone support for young people, parents and carers concerned about drugs.
Website: www.talktofrank.com

Alcoholics Anonymous - Voluntary, worldwide fellowship of men and women from all walks of life, aiming to recover from alchoholism by sharing their experience, strength, and hope.
Website: www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk

Alcoholic Concern - National agency on alcohol misuse. Works to reduce the incidence and costs of alcohol-related harm and to increase the range and quality of services available to people with alcohol-related problems.
Website: www.alcoholconcern.org.uk

AL-ANON Family Groups UK and Eire - Helps families and friends of alcoholics recover from the effects of living with those with drinking problems.
Tel: 020 7403 0888 (24-hour helpline) Email: alanonuk@aol.com
Website: www.al-anonuk.org.uk
Bereavement

Cruse Bereavement Care – Offers help to anyone who has been bereaved. Free counselling, advice and publications.
Website: www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk

WAY Foundation - social and support network for men and women widowed under the age of 50, and their children.
Website: www.wayfoundation.org.uk

Winstons Wish - Winston's Wish helps bereaved children and young people rebuild their lives.
Website: www.winstonswish.org.uk

Smoking

No Smoking Day – organised by a charity of the same name which is funded by a coalition of governmental and voluntary sector organisations with an interest in health
Website: www.nosmokingday.org.uk

ASH – Information on the effects of smoking on health, its costs and current legislation.
Website: www.ash.org.uk

Giving up smoking - NHS website providing advice on how to quit smoking.
Website: www.givingupsmoking.co.uk

Ethnic Minorities

Destigmatize – Information and support for people with anxiety disorders in the Asian community. Part of the National Phobics Society
Website: www.destigmatize.org.uk  

ICAP - Provides accessible, culturally sensitive counselling to ethnic immigrant groups in the UK.
Website: www.icap.org.uk

Refugee Council – Can provide information on mental health services to refugees and their advisers.
Website: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk

National Black & Minority Ethnic Mental Health Network
Website: www.bmementalhealth.org.uk

Black and Asian Therapists Online – Discusses mental health issues from a Black and Asian perspective and has a directory of Black and Asian therapists in the UK.
Website: www.baato.co.uk

Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders Association – Helplines, information and network of self-help groups for those with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder and related eating disorders.
Website: www.edauk.com

Overeaters Anonymous - Support for people with eating disorders using a 12-step approach.
Website: www.oagb.org.uk

Panic/Anxiety/Stress/Phobias

National Phobics Society – Information, support, including one-to-one therapy, for those with anxiety disorders.
Website: www.phobics-society.org.uk

No Panic – Help for people with panic attacks, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorders, general anxiety disorder and tranquiliser withdrawal.
Website: www.nopanic.org.uk

Triumph Over Phobia (TOP UK) – Structured self-help groups to help with phobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Website: www.triumphoverphobia.com  

OCD Action – For people with obsessive compulsive disorder and related disorders such as body dysmorphic disorder, compulsive skin picking and trichotillomania.
Website: www.ocdaction.org.uk

Self- Harm

Equilibrium – User-led self-injury awareness organisation.
Website: www.selfharmony.co.uk 

National Self-Harm Network – Supports people who self-harm, providing information, contacts and workshops on matters relating to self-harm.
Website: www.nshn.co.uk

Children and Young Adults

SupportLine – Offers confidential emotional support for children, young adults and adults.
Website: www.supportline.org.uk

YoungMinds – Works to promote the mental health and emotional wellbeing of children and young people.
Website: www.youngminds.org.uk

ChildLine – Free national helpline for children and young people in danger and distress.
Helpline: 0800 1111
Website: www.childline.org.uk

Childhood Bereavement Network – Information, guidance and support for bereaved children and young people.
Website: www.childhoodbereavementnetwork.org.uk

Winstons Wish – Winston's Wish helps bereaved children and young people rebuild their lives.
Website: www.winstonswish.org.uk

National Attention Deficit Disorder Information and Support Service (ADDISS) - Information and advice for parents, young people and professionals on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Website: www.addiss.co.uk

Careline – Confidential telephone counselling for children, young people and adults on a variety of issues including family and relationship problems, child abuse, bullying, eating disorders, exam worries, sexual health and more.
Website: www.careline.org

Women

Association for Post Natal Illness – Advice and support for mothers experiencing post natal illness.
Website: www.apni.org

Threshold Women – Women’s mental health organisation providing an infoline, factsheets and emotional support. All calls answered by women.
Website: www.thresholdwomen.org.uk

Childbirth.Org - Contains pages of resources for all cycles of pregnancy and birthing.
Website: www.childbirth.org

Depression

Depression Alliance – UK’s leading depression charity, with a network of self-help groups.
Website: www.depressionalliance.org

Fellowship of Depressives Anonymous – Mutual aid organisation providing self-help groups and information.
Website: www.depressionanon.co.uk

Maytree – A sanctuary for the suicidal: a place where, during a brief stay, a person will find the support that can alleviate despair and isolation.
Website: www.maytree.org.uk

Relationships

Aquila Care Trust – Support for men and women after a broken relationship or divorce.
Website: www.aquilatrust.org  

Relate – Counselling and psychosexual therapy for adults experiencing relationship difficulties.
Website: www.relate.org.uk

Parentlineplus – Confidential national helpline for anyone in a parenting role.
Website: www.parentlineplus.co.uk

Carers UK – Information and help for the UK’s six million carers.
Website: www.carersuk.org

Contact a Family – Offers support and advice to parents of children who have a mental or physical disability, and enables families to get in touch with each other.
Website: www.cafamily.org.uk 

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