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Health Information
Podcasts
Click on any of the MP3 links below to play the audio files which have been prepared by Sussex Ambulance Service and comply with European Resuscitation Council Guidelines:
- Burns - Explains the immediate treatment for burns and scalds.
- Fits - How to deal with fits (convulsions/seizures) in adults and young children.
- Wounds - Immediate actions for wounds, bleeding, and bleeding associated with fractures.
- Unconscious patient who is breathing - How to deal with an unrousable patient who IS breathing (includes recovery position)
- CPR for adults - Adults who have collapsed, unrousable and NOT breathing.
- CPR for babies - Babies who are unrousable and NOT breathing.
- Collapsed patient in detail - Explains the complete scenario including checks for breathing, circulation, etc.
NHS Health Encyclopedia
Click here to go to the NHS Health Encyclopedia which allows you to access information and advice on a range of conditions, surgical procedures, medications, and health issues.
Some of the most popular health encyclopaedia topics have been translated into other languages. You can access these topics by clicking on the image in the bottom left hand corner of every page on the website.
NHS Online Self Help Guide
Click here to access this online diagnostic tool.
Common Health Questions
Click here to get answers to commonly asked health and medical questions direct from the NHS.
Non-English Speakers
These fact sheets have been written to explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. It covers issues such as the role of GPs, their function as gatekeepers to the health services, how to register and how to access emergency services.
Special care has been taken to ensure that information is given in clear language, and the content and style has been tested with user groups.
Open the leaflets in one of the following languages
Useful Health Information Links
Live Health News
BBC News | Health | World Edition
Visit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.
Social factors key to ill health
Social factors - rather than genetics - are to blame for huge variations in ill health and life expectancy around the world, a report concludes.
Gene therapy 'may repair hearing'
Scientists claim gene therapy has the potential to restore hearing in mice, offering hope for humans as well.
Map highlights 'obesity hotspots'
Shetland and parts of Wales and north England are Britain's obesity hotspots, according to a map compiled from GP records.
Britain's happiest places mapped
The most sparsely populated county in Wales is Britain's happiest place - but Edinburgh the least happy, say researchers.
Man who lost 20 stone refused op
A 28-year-old man who lost 20 stone is told he is too overweight to have surgery to remove excess skin.
Drug 'may slow down Parkinson's'
Early use of medication may be able to slow down progression of Parkinson's disease, preliminary research suggests.
Robo-skeleton lets paralysed walk
A human exoskeleton robotic suit is helping people paralysed from the waist down to stand, walk and climb stairs.
Indian herbal medicines queried
A fifth of Indian herbal medicines sold on the internet contain potentially lethal substances, says a new study in the US.
Toddler cancer spotted via e-mail
A toddler in Florida is diagnosed with cancer after a Manchester woman spotted the early warning signs in a picture.
Why a daily fry-up may be bad news for your health
A breakfast fry-up every day raises the risk of bowel cancer by 63%, researchers have calculated.
Unkindest cuts
Self-harmer tells of her 10-year battle against her body
Slum medic diary
Hunger and hope for Sierra Leone's children
DIY drugs
Home-grown cannabis on rise
Pensioner power
Exercises classes keeping Flo fit at age of 100
Medical notes
A comprehensive guide to clinical conditions
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