Health and Care

• The main National Health Service web site for the public is NHS Choices. It provides medical advice and information on a wide range of medical conditions along with treatments, healthy living, contact details for doctors, dentists, hospitals, chemists, opticians and much more
• For more, specially selected, health and care web sites see WebLinks> Health and Care
• For local information and council support, see Health and Social Care at the Central Bedfordshire Council web site and Bedford Borough Council Health and Social Care
• For more local services and support groups search the Local Information Database
• You can search many major health reference books in the collections at Reference books online

Credo Reference includes, for example, 'Black's medical dictionary', 'Royal Society of Medicine health encyclopaedia' and 'Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary'

Oxford Reference Online includes, for example, 'The Oxford companion to the body', 'Concise medical dictionary' and 'An A-Z of medicinal drugs'.

• At Newspapers online you can search for health news items from daily and Sunday newspapers; for historical information there is also the 'Times digital archive' covering 1785-1985

Further information

• Library catalogue
• Contact us - for help to find information, from your local librarians
• 'Enquire' - a 24-hour chat enquiry service from the national People's Network. Local librarians take part in 'Enquire' on a rota basis but it is likely that you would be answered by a librarian from another library service

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