Links to useful websites

• Help and advice with various conditions:
• Insomnia:Sleepio - online sleep improvement programme
• Anxiety - Daylight - digital anxiety improvement programme
• Al-Anon - Help and advice for family and friends of people with alcohol problems
• Alcoholics Anonymous
  Help and advice for people with an alcohol problem
• Best Treatments
  information on a range of medical conditions and their treatment.
• Bowel Cancer Screening

        link to NHS Scotland bowel screening site with information about the bowel cancer screening program.  

        Bowel cancer is a common cancer but if detected early can be successfully treated. 

• Cancer Backup
  useful information on various forms of cancer from MacMillan 
• Contact a family
  Information on disabilities in children with useful contacts for people caring for sick or disabled children.
• Dementia friendly community

        Link to local site with information on living with dementia.

• Depression Centre
  Personalised interactive tools to help with depression
• Diabetes UK
  Useful site with infomation and advice regarding diabetes
• Living life to the full
  Self-help website for people suffering from depression
• Menopause matters
  Useful site with information regarding the menopause and its treatment
• Mood Gym
  Self-help website for people suffering with depression
• Multiple sclerosis Society
  information on multiple sclerosis  
• Recovering from surgery - Royal College of Surgeons website giving useful information about various types of surgery and likely course of recovery, including returning to work.
• recovering from gynaecological surgery - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists website giving information on various operations and the likely course of recovery from them.
• Local Hospitals etc
• Caithness General Hospital
  Link to the hospital in Wick - some of the specialists from here come down to do clinics in Golspie.
• Raigmore Hospital
  Link to Raigmore hospital website.
• NHS24
  Information on NHS24 and a useful section on support groups - purple section on the home page.
•  Health organisations
• Child protection

         "For Highland's children" website - information about child protection and how to  report any concerns

• Patient's association
  Patient's association website
• British Heart Foundation
  heart disease charity, with some useful information
• Talk to Frank
  Information on drugs for those with a drug problem or anyone worried about friends or relatives
• Sexual Health Scotland
  Sexual Health Scotland website
• Get the lowdown - teenage health advice
• Youngscot help for teenagers and young adults
• Brook pregnancy and sexual health advice
• YoungMinds - Health advice for children, teenagers and their parents and friends.
• Translated information
• Poltran
  English-Polish/Polish-English translation site
• translated information about genital herpes
• translated information about gonorrhoea
• translated information about genital warts
• Dornoch
• Visit Dornoch
  Information about Dornoch.