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Institute of Rural Health - The Institute's objective is to optimise the health of rural communities. It has been founded in Mid Wales to act as an UK based centre of excellence in rural health.
Call Helpline - Telephone helpline offering emotional support and information/literature on mental health and related matters to the people of North Wales and Powys.
Health of Wales Information Service ( HOWIS ) - A gateway to information on organisations and services provided by the National Health Service (NHS) within Wales. Details of key publications (PDF format), press releases and links to all official NHS Wales web sites.
Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC) Wales - CDSC Wales is the epidemiological investigation arm of the Public Health Laboratory Service in Wales.
NHS Direct Wales - The 24 hour nurse-led telephone advice service run by NHS Wales. Provides information on the diagnosis and treatment of common conditions. When to seek medical help. Advice on healthy living.
Welsh Blood Service - The Welsh Blood Service is a National Health Service unit who collect blood, process it, test it and store it before delivery to the hospitals in Wales.
Health Promotion in Wales - Discover how your lifestyles affect your health. Access professional resources, library, publications and research
NHS Wales Waiting Times Information Service for GPs and Patients - Information on waiting times in the NHS Wales for patients and GPs. Data covers outpatient, inpatient and daycases for a wide range of specialties and procedures.
Centre for Health Leadership Wales - Information on conferences, events, research and personal development programmes for healthcare professionals working within the NHS in Wales.
Kidney Research Unit for Wales Foundation - Promote renal research and care. Includes fundraising and events, news, past successes, a gallery of celebrities supporting and patients benefiting, information about the Institute of Nephrology, and ways to help.
Welsh Health Supplies - Welsh Health Supplies is a Service Provider to the National Health Service in Wales and is managed by Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust. Its role is to provide two key links in the Supply Chain to Welsh NHS Trusts, the negotiation of contracts and a materials management service.
Sportsmed Wales - Details the products and services available from the organisation, which aims to allow people with sports injuries, or queries, access to specialists who will facilitate diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation.
Rural Well Being - Health information service for rural areas. Includes A-Z search of health practitioners in rural counties.
Public Health Laboratory Service - Information on Public Health and surveillance data, newsletters and disease guidelines for patients and the general public.
Welsh Health Estates - Welsh Health Estates is a Service Provider to the National Health Service in Wales and is managed by North Glamorgan NHS Trust. Its Architects, Chartered Engineers, Chartered Surveyors and other specialists operate throughout Wales and represent the Welsh NHS in dealing with healthcare technical policy and standards within the United Kingdom.
Manor Road Dental Practice - A Dental Practice in Manselton, Swansea, South Wales. Care provided in a friendly approachable way.
Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit - WCISU provides information about cancer incidence and mortality within the resident population, demand for screening and treatment, the effectiveness of these services, epidemiological research into the causes of cancer, research into cancer prevention, clinical research and for the education of the public.
Cervical Screening Wales - Cervical Screening Wales - the Welsh cervical screening programme. The site provides information on the cervical screening programme across Wales.
All Wales Forum for Senior Nurses in Child and Adolescent Mental Health - Gives brief information and contact details.
Centre for the Economics of Health - Based at the University of Wales. Conduct research and provide policy support to the National Assembly.
West Wales Action for Mental Health - Site offering advice,information and support to mental health organisations throughout West Wales.
Real Life Solutions - Site providing information on male and female home fertility tests and preconception nutritional advice.
Welsh Medicines Resource Centre (WeMeReC) - Source of independent information on prescribing for health professionals working in healthcare in Wales including general practitioners (GPs), community pharmacists, medical and pharmaceutical advisers.
Health Solutions Wales - Information on the organisation and the services that it provides to the NHS in Wales.
National Service Frameworks (Wales) - Information on National Service Frameworks (NSFs) that are being developed to address variations in standards of care and to achieve greater consistency in the availability and quality of services, by putting in place mechanisms which will enable best care to be provided to all.
Welsh Hospital Pharmacy Training - Information to illustrate the hospital training places and facilities available for Pre-registration Pharmacists and Clinical Diploma Pharmacists in Wales.
NHS Wales Job Vacancies - This is the official job vacancies service for NHS Wales. Vacancies are added daily.
Counsellingwales - Offers confidential counselling and therapy for stress, depression, loss, or bereavement. Contact details.
Sleep Apnoea - Information about a support group based in North West Wales, including past and forthcoming events. Also offers some basic information. [English/Welsh]
Awares - A directory of information resources, both online and offline, in Wales and worldwide: includes news, details of seminars. (Cymraeg and English)
Fitness Wales - The governing body for exercise and fitness. Specialising in training courses for people who wish to become fitness instructors (ETM, GYM, circuits, aqua etc)and personal trainers.
All Wales Medicines Strategy Group - Pr0viding advice on strategic medicines management and prescribing in Wales.
Wales Mental Health In Primary Care - Providing interested parties a platform in which to share information and generate innovation within Wales through an interactive forum.
Freedom of Information Act - Providing information of the Freedom of Information Act and how it will be implemented across NHS Wales.
ICT Foundation Programme for General Medical Practices - Providing information on a Programme that aims to improve the quality of information available in General Medical Practice in Wales.
Informing Healthcare - Information on Informing Healthcare, the Welsh Assembly Government strategy to support the modernisation of health services in Wales using information and communication technologies.
National Public Health Service for Wales - Infroamtion on the National Public Health Service for Wales. A new organisation that brings together the public health resources of the five former health authorities in Wales, which includes input from academic departments, with those of the Public Health Laboratory Service in Wales, which includes the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre.
Wales Council for the Blind - Independent umbrella organisation promoting the welfare of blind and partially sighted people and the prevention of blindness. Information about membership, activities, and their Manifesto.
Standing Ground Helpline - Offer support to victims of any type of abuse. Contact details.
Health Professions Wales - Supports education and training for the NHS workforce and works with employers, higher education and professional regulators.
Dyslexia Wales - Details of a course which helps solve learning problems encountered by dyslexics. Contact information.
Wales Office of Research and Development of Health and Social Care - Funds projects involved in the research and development of health and social care in Wales.
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(Native American Proverb) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Health There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Health The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy Health The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Health It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Health "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West Health "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Health Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Health After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion Health Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz Health "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates 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" "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Health Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Health An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Health "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger Health Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Health
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