Useful Links
Links to a range of useful websites are listed below. Please click on the name of the organisation to view its website. Where a website does not exist, a telephone number is given. Peninsula Health accepts no responsibility for external content.
Useful Websites and Resources
Health Advice
Charities
Changing Faces
Charity that provide help and support for people and their families who are living with conditions, marks and scars that affect their appearance.
t: 0300 012 0275
w: www.changingfaces.org
Macmillan Cancer Support
Provides practical, medical, emotional and financial support and campaign for better cancer care.
Maggie’s Centre’s
Skin cancer UK support group
Marie Curie
Provide support to cancer patients and their families
Skin Cancer Hub
Information on to support prevention and early diagnosis
w: www.swpho.nhs.uk/skincancerhub
Skin Cancer Foundation
Alopecia Patient support groups:
- Alopecia UK – www.alopecia.org.uk
- Alopecia Awareness – www.alopecia-awareness.org.uk
- Alopecia help and advice (Scotland) Ltd – www.alopeciascotland.co.uk
- Cicatricial Alopecia Research Foundation (=scarring) – www.carfintl.org/support-groups.php
- Hairline International – www.hairlineinternational.co.uk
Patient information leaflets:
- British Association of Dermatologists – www.bad.org.ukor www.skinsupport.org.uk
Wirral carers – http://www.wirralcarers.co.uk/
ENT advice sheets – www.entuk.org
Tinnitus Advice – www.tinnitus.org.uk
Menieres Disease – Advice….https://www.menieres.org.uk
Caring for a cauterised wound
This page will give you information about caring for a cauterised wound. It is not a complete guide, if you have any questions or you require further explanations please do not hesitate to ask a member of staff.
