• Children First for Health Based at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, it provides children and young people with: quality, regularly reviewed health information; engaging information about what to expect in hospital; information about individual hospitals; and a safe forum for sharing their own experiences and health news. www.childrenfirst.nhs.uk/about/index.html

•  Department of Health National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/HealthAndSocialCareTopics/ChildrenServices/ChildrenServicesInformation/fs/en

•  eBNF for Children It is freely available to NHS staff with an NHS Athens username and password via the NeLH and NLH websites. www.nelh.nhs.uk/bnf_children.asp

• Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH) and UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH) Together they form an international centre of excellence for treating sick children and teaching and training children’s specialists. They are the largest centre for research into childhood illness outside the United States. The website contains a wealth of information for parents, patients and health professionals. www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/

•  National Electronic Library for Health and National Electronic Library for Public Health www.nelh.nhs.uk/new_users.asp www.phel.gov.uk/

•  Scottish Executive Health for All Children 4: guidance on implementation in Scotland 2005

  •  Health promotion: www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/04/15161325/13312 

  • Screening and detecting problems: www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/04/15161325/13324 

• Teenage Health Freak Teenage Health Websites Limited is the brainchild of Drs Ann McPherson and Aidan Macfarlane, writers of the original Diary of a Teenage Health Freak series. www.teenagehealthfreak.org

•  Youth Health Talk The DIPEx charity has produced a unique, award-winning website aimed at patients, their carers, family and friends, doctors, nurses and other health professionals. www.youthhealthtalk.org 

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