Introduction - Health Links
The following links are a small sample of the vast array of useful websites available on the World Wide Web. Please read our disclaimer before using these sites.
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Links for Patients*
^ TOPMinistry of Health (New Zealand) (NZ) — Up-to-date source of Health Information in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Also contains up-to-date information on Avian (Bird) Influenza.
Everybody (NZ) — Provides consumer health information for New Zealanders. It is written by medical writers and reviewed by consumer health organisations and health professionals.
Family Doctor (NZ) — Wide range of health information produced by a group of New Zealand GPs.TOP
Immunisation Advisory Centre (NZ) — Provides a local source of independent, factual information including benefits and risks regarding immunisation, and vaccine-preventable disease.Best Treatments (UK) — General consumer health information written by medical professionals in the UK.
Links for Clinicians*
General
New Zealand Guidelines Group (NZ)— Evidence based health and disability services.
bpac (NZ)— Best Practice summaries for medication and laboratory tests, audit tools and patient resources.EMedicine (US) — Extensive clinical knowledge base.
Global RPh (US) — Medical calculators, multi-media and much more.
Google (Int) — A search engine providing links to most of the information on the World Wide Web. Enables advanced searching, image search, as well as many advanced tools.
MedScape (US) — Provides health professionals with medical information and educational tools.
MayoClinic (US) — Source of medical information and tools.PubMed (US) — Includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
WHO (World Health Organisation) (Int) — United Nations specialised agency for health. Contains latest information on Avian (Bird) Influenza
Journals
NZ Medical Journal (NZ) — Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association.
Bandolier (UK) — Independent journal about evidence-based healthcare.
BMJ (UK) — British Medical Journal (costs to read articles).
Cochrane (Int) — An international not-for-profit organisation, providing up-to-date information about the effects of health care.
Google Scholar (Int) — Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
International Nursing Journals (Int) — Over 100 international journals selected by the NZ Nurses Organisation.
Medications
MedSafe (NZ) — New Zealand medicines and medical devices safety authority.
Pharmac (NZ) — Pharmaceutical Management Agency of New Zealand.
British National Formulary (UK) — Provides information on the selection and clinical use of medicines (paid subscription only).Drug Digest (US) — Provides clinical and patient level information
Therapeutic Goods Administration (AUS) — Australia's regulatory body for medicines, medical devices, blood, tissues and chemicals.
Useful updates
Research review (NZ) — Local clinicians review of current evidence.
Journal Watch (US) — Home to 11 individual titles, Journal Watch Online is updated several times each week.
MedScape (US) — Provides health professionals with medical information and educational tools.
The National Electronic Library for Medicines (UK) — Provides information on medicines and prescribing (allows you to subscribe to regular updates on a wide variety of topics).
Specific
DermNet NZ — Information about skin from the New Zealand Dermatological Society Incorporated.
Immunisation Advisory Centre (NZ) — Provides a local source of independent, factual information including benefits and risks regarding immunisation, and vaccine-preventable disease.
Health Organisations*
ACC (NZ) — Accident Compensation Corporation (contains section for Providers)
Hutt Valley DHB (NZ) — Plethora of information for patients and clinicians about the Hutt Valley DHB.
IPAC (NZ) — IPA (Independent Practitioners Association) Council of New Zealand.
NZ HealthCare Pharmacists' Association (NZ) — Formerly known as New Zealand Hospital Pharmacists’ Association (NZHPA)
NZNO (NZ) — The New Zealand Nurses Organisation.
RNZCGP (NZ) — The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners.
*Disclaimer
Links on this page lead to web sites that have been produced independently of Kōwhai Health Trust. Kōwhai Health Trust does not take any responsibility for the content of these independently maintained sites and strongly recommends that you contact a health professional for any health advice you require. If your site is listed on any of our pages, and you would like it to be removed please email us at korero@kowhaihealth.org.nz