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NHS Primary Care Group Alliance Web Site - Support for Primary Care Groups and professionals working in Primary Care in the UK
British Healthcare Internet Association - An association for health care professionals and others, who are dedicated to the advancement of health care through the application of Internet technologies
National Association of GP Co-operatives - GP co-operatives are one of the means by which GPs cover their out of hours commitment to patients when surgeries are closed. This association offers support. Represents many of the GP Co-ops in the UK.
Clinical Trials Service Unit - Medical research unit based at Oxford University. Studies chronic diseases such as cancer, heart attacks and strokes. Site provides some information on recent projects.
British Medical Association - The BMA is the main professional organization representing UK doctors and is an independent trade union. This site is primarily for doctors and some sections are restricted to BMA members only.
The Royal College of General Practitioners - Academic organization in the UK for general practitioners.
General Medical Council - All practising medical doctors in the UK must be registered with the GMC. This official site describes the functions of the Council and displays guidance for doctors and the public.
Medical Research Council - Large UK organization which commissions, funds and carries out medical research projects. Details of the organization are available. Detail of individual projects is sparse.
Medical Protection Society - Mutual assurance society providing professional insurance for doctors. Guidance papers and case reports available.
Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists - The professional body for Speech and Language Therapists. Advice on training with links to recognised education centres. Post graduate courses.
Institute of Healthcare Management - Professional body for managers working in health services in the UK. An extensive site with detailed information about the Institute, including a private members only section.
National Association of Non-Principals - Represents medical doctors working in General Practice who are not registered principals. Discussion forum and help with developing personal learning plans.
Association for Respiratory Technology and Physiology - Professional association for practitioners working in respiratory physiology and technology. National professional examinations in both spirometry and basic respiratory function testing.
National Association Of Hospice Fundraisers Website - UK professional association for fundraisers working in the Hospice movement.
The Medico-Legal Society - This UK society aims to promote all aspects of medico-legal knowledge through its journal and regular meetings.
Institute of Medical Illustrators - Describes the aims and activities of this association, with telephone contacts for officers, educational programmes and links to medical and academic sites.
UK Public Health Association - A gateway to public health issues in Britain.
The Sleep Council - Body funded by bed manufacturers promoting the importance of a good night's sleep. Free information leaflets, tips and facts are available.
NHS Clinical Governance Support Team - Forum for discussion and debate, information and insight on NHS policy. Search facility available.
Associate Parliamentary Food and Health Forum - All-party parliamentary group which discusses all health, diet and food related issues. Programme, newsletters and contact information.
Charterhouse Clinical Research Unit - An independent Contract Research Organisation providing research and development services to international pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. Info on volunteer registration for clinical trials.
Alliance for Health Professionals - Trade union federation formed by The British Dietetic Association, The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, The British Orthoptic Society, The Federation of Clinical Scientists, The Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists and The Society of Radiographers.
Council of Heads of Medical Schools - Council of the Heads, or Deans, of the faculties of medicine and medical schools.
Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice - Issues the certificates which allow doctors to practice as General Practitioners in the UK. Approves and inspects all training posts for general practice. Site provides details on how to obtain a certificate. Lists doctors who hold the certificate.
The Association of Clinical Electron Microscopists - The ACEM is a professional body representing clinical electron microscopists. Includes information for lay persons on EM and biopsies, and a members area.
The Duncan Society - The Duncan Society aims to stimulate debate, discussion and understanding on issues and policies that affect the health and quality of life of the people of Merseyside and Cheshire.
National Care Forum - Established to represent the interests of not-for-profit health and social care providers.
Independent Healthcare Association - Trade association representing acute elective surgery, mental health services, nursing and residential home care organisations to the government and media. Site offers descriptive and membership information.
Royal College of Midwives - Trade union and professional organisation run by midwives for midwives.
BHIVA Clinical Audit Faculty - Promoting good practice in clinical audit in HIV, AIDS and related conditions and co-ordinating a UK-national clinical audit program.
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The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the Organisations A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Organisations Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba Organisations "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. Organisations Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Organisations May you never leave your marriage alive. An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and Organisations "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Organisations "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Organisations Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Organisations Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Organisations Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Organisations In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James Organisations A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus Organisations It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Organisations A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Organisations If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Organisations Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Organisations When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Organisations Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison Organisations Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley Organisations To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Organisations
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