Health Guide

Gloucestershire AIDS Trust - Support and advice for all AIDS related issues in Gloucestershire. Covering areas of Cheltenham, Gloucester, Tewkesbury, Stroud, Cirencester and parts of the Cotswolds.

Healthwise Nutrition & Well-Being - Nutritionist offering advice, consultation, and testing.

Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service - Offers information on standards and services, recruitment, service plan, and safety issues. Includes a history of fire brigades and the Burning Issues newsletter.

Gloucestershire Health Services - Provides a general guide to health services in the county with a directory of hospitals, doctors, dentists, opticians and pharmacies and links to the local NHS trusts.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust - News, annual report and profiles of the hospitals managed by this Trust. Includes progress reports on the development of the new Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

West Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust - Profile of the Trust, its catchment area, management team and services. Includes job vacancies and a patients guide to getting the right services.

Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Primary Care Trust - A Gloucestershire Health portal site providing information about local and national health services including details about doctors, dentists, pharmacies, opticians, hospitals, and support services. It also offers information about conditions and treatments.

Gloucestershire Vascular Group - A body representing vascular surgeons in the county - brief C.V. of each member - description of members special surgical interests including aneurysm surgery, carotid surgery and thrombolysis.

Leading the Way - Leading the Way is a three-year arts programme that seeks to enhance the new Gloucestershire Royal Hospital through a series of integrated art commissions, artist residencies and an ongoing children's arts programme.

Primary and Community Care Audit Group - The PCCAG is concerned with improving the quality of healthcare that the NHS provides to patients in the county through clinical audit.

Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) - To help patients, their families and carers, to find answers to questions or concerns regarding the care or treatment they receive from all NHS services.

Whitehouse Surgery - Information about the services provided, contact details, opening times and Branch Surgery details

PHIL-E-SLIDE - The System for Safer Patient Transfers - Features a description of the product, and links to their business in other countries.

Good Health: Helping you to stay healthy in Gloucestershire - A gateway to providing health information. Includes information about illnesses, local health initiatives, and support services.

Cotswold Complementary Therapies Ltd - Offers massage and other therapies from branches in Stow-on-the-Wold and Kingham Station.

Cathie Uff - Equine Dental Technician - Providing an equine dentistry service based Hartpury with clients in the surrounding counties and South Wales.

Gloucestershire Recovery in Psychosis (GRIP) - A specialist mental health service for young people with psychosis offers an information and advice service for carers and sufferers.

Cotswold Care Hospice - Information about Hospice aiming to maximise the life of those people living in Gloucestershire diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Newcombe House - Specialist provider of residential treatment for young adolescent females aged 13-18 years with self injurious behaviour.

Counselling with Brian Mountford - Details of counselling, psychotherapy and CBT services for individuals and couples. Practices in Cheltenham, Chepstow and the Forest of Dean.

St John Ambulance - Offers first aid at work training, ambulance transport, medical and event cover.

Chris and Elizabeth Clarke - Hypnotherapy, life Coaching, reflexology and stress management practitioners describe their treatments. [Kingswood and Bradley Stoke]

Where The Heart Is - Support group for those with heart disease their family and friends. Supports through friendship, exercise, walks, meetings and trips. Affiliated to British Heart Foundation.

Glos BCPCA psychotherapists and counsellors - The website for bcpc trained psychotherapists and counsellors working in the county. Site includes members' contact details.