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
The latest stories from the Health section of the BBC News web site.
US baby boomers in Hep C warning
US baby boomers are advised to get tested for the liver-destroying virus hepatitis C, in a move health officials say could save 120,000 lives.
Dieting 'safe for pregnant women'
Dieting in pregnancy is safe and does not carry risks for the baby, a review of research has suggested.
Statins 'benefit healthy people'
Thousands of heart attacks and strokes could be prevented if the cholesterol-lowering drugs, statins, were more widely prescribed, research suggests.
Father wants 'donation' lessons
A father who lost his son to leukaemia is calling for schools and colleges to make a lesson on donating stem cells, blood and organs part of the curriculum.
UK retains strict animal test law
The UK says it will retain stricter animal testing standards than required by a new European Union Directive.
White births now minority in US
Children from racial and ethnic minorities now account for more than half the births in the US, estimates from the latest census data say.
Oldest living kidney donor at 83
An 83-year-old man becomes the oldest person in the UK to donate a kidney while still alive, the NHS Blood and Transplant service says.
Robotic arm controlled by thought
Two patients who are paralysed from the neck down are able to control a robotic arm using their thoughts.
Old films to aid memory recovery
Old home movies are being used to help trigger the forgotten past of people with dementia and other memory loss.
Cannabis laws 'need changing'
Growing small amounts of cannabis should be treated like a speeding ticket with a fine and no criminal record, according to a drugs charity.
Home HIV tests backed by US panel
Over-the-counter HIV tests, which would allow people in the US to check in the privacy of their homes if they have the virus, move a step closer.
Light-powered bionic eye invented
A retinal implant - or bionic eye - which is powered by light has been invented by scientists at Stanford University in California.
Girl, 10, has 3kg tumour removed
A 10-year-old girl, Eliana Mann, has had a tumour weighing more than 3kg removed in an operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Why we should talk more about death
Why doctors should talk more about death
VIDEO: Thoughts used to control robotic arm
Two patients in the United States who are paralysed from the neck down have been able to control a robotic arm using their thoughts.
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