Information & Support Websites
- Automobile Association
- This site has a free route planner. All you need to do is to enter your postcode and the postcode of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital (L7 8XP) and a personalized map will be provided.
- BACUP
- A website with plenty of useful information for patients and medical staff.
- Best Ttreatments
- Clinical evidence direct from patients from the BMJ.
- Cancerhelp
- A website for patients, with good advice on coping with cancer.
- Cancer of the Eye Link Line ( C.E.L.L.)
- A patient-led helpline which offers support for patients who have had, or are about to have an eye removed.
- Changing Faces
- A website offering information and support to people who are concerned about facial disfigurement
- College of Optometrists
- This website describes the role of optometrists. The section entitled Guidance describes how optometrists should examine and refer patients. There is no mention of ocular tumours at present. Professor Damato has recently written to the College of Optometrists with suggestions for improving tumour detection and speeding referral.
- Eye Cancer
- A website created by Dr Paul Finger, an ocular oncologist in New York.
- General Medical Council
- This website defines the standards of care for doctors, therefore indicating patients' rights.
- Macmillan
- Improving the lives of people affected by cancer.
- Medical Research Council
- This website includes an excellent explanation of correct procedures for handling data and tissue samples in research.
- Office of the Data Protection Commissioner
- One Vision
- Offers practical information for people experiencing sight loss in (or removal of) one eye and the opportunity to talk with OneVision volunteers who have personal experience of sight loss in one eye
- Patient Opinion
- The NHS Patient Opinion website allowing you to share your experiences, both good and bad.
- PubMed
- A database of summaries of medical literature.
- RNIB
- A website with information and good advice on coping with sight problems.
- Royal Liverpool University Hospital
- The main Royal Liverpool Hospital website.
- The US National Cancer Institute
- An excellent site with information for doctors, nurses and patients.
- The World Medical Association
- This website publishes the Declaration of Helsinki, which defines the ethical principles for research involving human subjects. It also records its policy on a variety of other ethical and social issues.
