Useful links
Respiratory sites
Asthma UK
UK charity for asthma sufferers.
British Lung
Foundation
UK charity for people with lung conditions and respiratory research
British
Thoracic Society
The national representative body for specialist thoracic medicine
in the UK
Collation
and comparison of data on respiratory disease
Results of a project to investigate routine sources of data from
1991-1995 on ten respiratory conditions.
General Practice
Airways Group
A group of general practitioners and nurses in the United Kingdom
with an interest in respiratory diseases which are common in primary
care.
Education for Health
A merger of the National Respiratory Training Centre (NRTC) and Heartsave , it provides professional health training across the fields of cardiovascular disease and respiratory health.
National Respiratory
Training Centre
Provides accredited education and training in respiratory and
allergic disease for health professionals.
European Respiratory
society
A European based international medical organisation.
American Thoracic
Society
A US based international educational and scientific society which
focuses on respiratory and critical care medicine.
General health / medical information sites
NHS
direct
UK National Health Service online. Advice on health conditions
for patients.
Department of
Health
Has the latest on the Department's work, as well as health and
social care guidance, publications and policy. Includes data on
hospital admissions and on the Health Surveys for England.
National
Electronic Library for Health
UK digital library for NHS staff, patients and the public. There
is also now a specialist respiratory
library.
National Institutes
of Health
US site on health. Lots of information and advice on health.
Cancer
Research UK
Has information on all cancers, including lung cancer.
Other
Office
of National Statistics
This site is the home of government statistical service. It has
a wealth of data on health, population and death
PubMed
Abstracts (summaries) of scientific papers published in journals
can be viewed here. Use the search facility to find subjects or
authors.
Health
and Safety Executive
The Health and Safety Executive publish annual reports on occupational
diseases. Specific registers of occupational respiratory diseases
also exist.
See our data sources for links and
other references to data commonly used by LAIA.
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