This page is a compilation of links to sites with a predominantly British flavour. This site is meant to be fun whilst at the same time providing visitors with access to useful and interesting links. To search the Web for new sites point at "Search" on your browser and this will display a variety of powerful search engines such as Yahoo!, Excite, Webcrawler, Altavista and others which are designed to be user friendly.
If you're new to the internet and would like to learn more try The Online Netskills Interactive Course (TONIC). This provides a good overview of the net with specific tutorials that focus on how to search networked information, and how to communicate on the net.
For a more comprehensive and cosmopolitan list of sites visit CTSNet Web Reviews and Links. 
General Medical Databases
- Medline (PubMed) U.S. National Library of Medicine - advanced medline search
- National Electronic Library for HealthOmni The UK's independent gateway to biomedical internet resources. A useful launchpad for online journals and search engines.
- Dr. Felix's free Medline Search
- Cochrane Systematic Reviews
- Human Gene Mutation Database
- Sources of Medical Research Funding
- Nobel Prizes
Central Government & The National Health Service - The NHS website
- Department of Health
- Department of Social Security
- The NHS Connecting for Health
- National Institute for Clinical Excellence
- Commission for Health Improvement
- The Audit Commission
- The Commission for Racial Equality
- Official documents
- Her Majesty's Stationery Office
- The Public Record Office
- Office for National Statistics
- The Government Information Service
- NHS National R&D Programme on Health Technology Assessment
- NHS R&D Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
- History of the NHS
- Recent history of the NHS
- General Medical Council
- Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
- Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Intercollegiate Specialty Boards
- Joint Committee on Higher Surgical Training
- Specialist Training Authority
- Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Royal College of Pathologists
- Royal College of General Practitioners
- Medical Research Council
- The Wellcome Trust
- The King's Fund
- British Cardiac Society
- The British Heart Foundation
- Royal Society of Medicine
- The Physiological Society
- American College of Cardiology
- Association of American Medical Colleges
- American Heart Association
- National Heart Forum
- Transplant Web Site for Patients and Doctors
- International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
- UK Consultants online A BUPA sponsored site
- NLH Specialist Library for Surgery, Theatres & Anaesthesia
- The European Organisation of Family Health Research (EOFHR)
- European Society of Cardiology Taskforce Report: The legal implications of medical guidelines
- European Society of Cardiology guidelines on driving and heart disease
- ESC Guidelines on diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism
Journals: Medical - WebMed Lit - Guide to Top Medical Journals on the Web
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Nature Medicine
- Journal of The American Medical Association
- British Medical Journal
- Heart - formerly The British Heart Journal
- Annual reviews of Biomedical Sciences
- American Journal of Physiology: Heart & Circulatory Physiology online
- Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
- Journal of The American College of Cardiology
- Heart Surgery Forum