Useful Links

The British Medical Association's Patient Liaison Group Glossary produced to help patients and carers understand the roles of healthcare professionals – who work in the NHS.
www.bma.org.uk/patients_public/whos_who_healthcare/index.jsp

Current Controlled Trials allows users to search, register and share information about randomised controlled trials.
www.controlled-trials.com

DUETs (Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments) has been established to identify and publish patients' and clincians' questions about the effects of treatments which cannot be answered by referring to up-to-date systematic reviews of existing research evidence.
www.library.nhs.uk/DUETs

Healthtalkonline - Clinical Trials is the gateway to many video and audio interviews with patients about their experience of clinical trials.
www.healthtalkonline.org/medical_research/clinical_trials

INVOLVE promotes and supports active public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research.
www.invo.org.uk

The James Lind Library has been created to help people understand fair tests of treatments in health care by illustrating how fair tests have developed over the centuries.
www.jameslindlibrary.org

The NHS Evidence service provides easy access to a comprehensive evidence base for everyone in health and social care who takes decisions about treatments or the use of resources.
www.evidence.nhs.uk

People in Research aims to help members of the public make contact with organisations that want to actively involve people in clinical research. It has been developed by the UK Clinical Research Collaboration, INVOLVE and others.
www.peopleinresearch.org

The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) aims to provide a broad range of educational activities and opportunities for doctors, dentists, and veterinary surgeons,including students of these disciplines; and allied health-care professionals.
www.rsm.ac.uk