CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)
General information and advice
Coronavirus and domestic abuse [GOV.UK]
Coronavirus Hampshire Helpline [Hampshire County Council]
Coronavirus resource page [GOV.UK]
Coronavirus resource page [Hampshire County Council]
Coronavirus Support App (UK) [free, one-stop guide to help you cope during the coronavirus crisis]
Covid-19 community hub [Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council]
Covid-19: Supporting your recovery [Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust]
Essential advice (video) [GOV.UK]
Handwashing advice (poster) [GOV.UK]
Health at home: how to access NHS services [NHS]
Home and Well Remote Direct Service
Meeting people from outside your household from 4 July [GOV.UK]
Myth busters [World Health Organization]
Scam awareness [Hampshire Constabulary]
Schools and COIVD-19 [World Health Organization]
Self-isolation (leaflet) [GOV.UK]
Stay at home: guidance for households with possible coronavirus (Covid-19) infection
Staying healthy at home [World Health Organization]
Children and advice for parents
Coronavirus: a book for children
Coronavirus: information for families with disabled children [Contact]
Coronavirus advice [Children With Cancer UK]
Coronavirus and caring for your baby [Lullaby Trust]
Dave the dog is worried about coronavirus (story for children)
Hampshire and IOW Children and Young People's Crisis Line [NHS]
How teenagers can protect their mental health during coronavirus [UNICEF]
Lenny and Lily in lockdown (wordless book for primary school children)
Lenny and Lily return to school (wordless book for primary school children)
Lockdown baby group (support meetings via Zoom) [The Safe]
Meditation for kids [Headspace]
Pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding [World Health Organization]
Returning to primary school: what parents need to know [HM Government]
Returning to secondary school: what parents need to know [HM Government]
Coronavirus and other health conditions
Cancer and coronavirus [Macmillan Cancer Support]
Coronavirus: information for families looking after someone with dementia [Dementia UK]
Coronavirus: information for people affected by dementia [Alzheimer's Society]
Coronavirus and diabetes [Diabetes UK]
Coronavirus and HIV [Terrence Higgins Trust]
Covid-19 and sexual health services [Solent NHS Trust]
Healthy parenting [World Health Organisation]
Information and advice for people living with a lung condition [British Lung Foundation]
Information for families with disabled children [Contact]
Information on coronavirus for stroke survivors [Stroke Association]
Virtual support events for men affected by cancer [The Blue Space, Basingstoke]
Virtual support events for women affected by cancer [The Pink Place, Basingstoke]
Mental health and wellbeing
Andover Mind - Aldershot contacts
Andover Mind - Andover contacts
Andover Mind - Basingstoke contacts
Andover Mind - Romsey contacts
Coronavirus: dealing with bereavement and grief [Cruse UK]
Coronavirus and mental wellbeing [Every Mind Matters]
Coronavirus Support Line [Red Cross]
Guidance for the public on the mental health and wellbeing aspects of coronavirus [GOV.UK]
Guide to living with worry and anxiety amidst global uncertainty [Psychology Tools Limited]
Hampshire and IOW Children and Young People's Crisis Line [NHS]
How can I support someone's mental health during Covid-19? [Time To Change]
How teenagers can protect their mental health during coronavirus [UNICEF]
How to fall asleep faster and sleep better [Every Mind Matters]
How to keep mentally healthy during uncertain times [Action for Happiness]
How to look after your mental health during the coronavirus outbreak [Mental Health Foundation]
How to use technology to reduce social isolation [Ability.Net]
Looking after our mental health [World Health Organization]
Meditation for kids [Headspace]
Silverline [telephone support for older people from Age UK]
Physical activities for adults and children
Change4Life (activities for children) [NHS]
Fitness Studio exercise videos [NHS]
Kids' workouts to do at home [Joe Wicks]
Stay In, Work Out [Sport England]
Staying physically active [World Health Organization]
This Girl Can (exercise ideas for women)
We Are Undefeatable (activities for people with long term health conditions) [NHS]
Volunteering
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) Information in alternative formats
Audio
Home isolation advice for older people and those with underlying health conditions
Home isolation advice for people with symptoms
How to protect yourself and others from coronavirus
British Sign Language (BSL)
Coronavirus updates and information
Home isolation advice for older people and those with underlying health conditions
Home isolation advice for people with symptoms
How to protect yourself and others from coronavirus
NHS111 (BSL service via Interpreter Now)
Easy Read, Makaton and wordless
Beating the virus (wordless book about what to do if you have coronavirus and how to help others)
Coronavirus - how to stay safe
Coronavirus - information for people with learning disabilities during their hospital stay
Covid-19 information (Easy Read and Makaton)
Dave the dog is worried about coronavirus
Grab and Go Hospital Passport (for people with learning disability or autism)
Having a home test for Coronavirus (wordless book)
Having a test for Coronavirus (wordless book including drive-through and home testing)
Having a test for Coronavirus at a drive-through centre (wordless book)
Helpful advice and information about coronavirus from Mencap
How to wash your hands (video)
Jack plans ahead for coronavirus (wordless book for family and carers)
Lenny and Lily in lockdown (wordless book for primary school children)
Lenny and Lily return to school (wordless book for primary school children)
Mencap TV (fitness, food, wellbeing and entertainment)
Resources from Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
When someone dies from coronavirus (wordless book for families and carers)
Large print
CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) Recovery advice for patients
Bladder, kidney, liver
Bones and joints
NRAS (National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society)
Versus Arthritis (formerly Arthritis Research UK)
Brain and nervous system
BRIAN (free app to help people cope with a brain tumour)
Carer support and dementia advice service for Hampshire
Different Strokes (for younger stroke survivors)
Headway (for people with a brain injury and their carers)
Motor Neurone Disease Association
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society
SameYou (recovery from brain injury and stroke for young people)
Shift MS (forum and social network for people with MS)
Coronavirus
Information on coronavirus for stroke survivors [Stroke Association]
Cancer
Children
Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group
CLIC Sargent (cancer and leukaemia in childhood)
Colorectal, stomach, bowel
Colostomy Association (includes young colostomates)
Heartburn Cancer UK (oesophageal and gastric cancer, Barrett's oesophagus)
General
5k your way move against cancer
Bucket List Wishes (Berkshire-based charity granting wishes for terminally ill adults)
Deaf Cancer Wise (for people with hearing difficulties who are affected by cancer)
Hampshire Macmillan Citizens Advice Service (for financial advice)
I Can Therapy Centre (helping people with health conditions to move more and feel better)
NHS national screening programme (bowel, breast, cervical)
Odyssey (helps people with cancer regain confidence via a programme of outdoor activities)
Penny Brohn Cancer Care (complementary therapies, counselling and support for people with cancer and their supporters)
SafeFit (Macmillan Cancer Support's free online exercise service)
Untire (app to help reduce fatigue)
Men
Orchid - fighting male cancer (testicular, prostate and penile cancer)
Other cancers
Anthony Nolan Trust (info on bone marrow donation and transplantation for leukaemia)
Bloodwise (formerly Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research)
BRIAN (free app to help people cope with a brain tumour)
NET Patient Foundation (neuroendocrine cancer)
Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
Women
Daisy Network (premature menopause)
NHS National Screening Programme (bowel, breast, cervical)
Ovacome (ovarian cancer)
VACO (Vulva Awareness Campaign Organisation)
Caregiving
British Red Cross (support at home)
Carer support and dementia advice service for Hampshire
Caring safely at home (unpaid carers)
Connect to Support Hampshire (adult social care)
Crossroads Care Reading (respite service for carers – local group based in Reading)
Princess Royal Trust for Carers in Hampshire
Please also see our 'Information for carers' page
Children, young adults and parenting
Cancer
Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG)
Coronavirus
Coronavirus and caring for your baby [Lullaby Trust]
Information for families with disabled children [Contact]
General
Change4Life (activities, food facts and recipes)
Contact (for families with disabled children)
Kidscape (help with bullying)
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities (free accommodation for families with children in hospitals and hospices across the UK)
The Mix (support for the under 25s)
Well Child (national charity for sick children)
Winston’s wish (charity for bereaved children)
Mental health
Children & Young People's Mental Health Coalition
Combined Minds (free app to help adults support a young person's mental health)
Mind (information for children and young people)
Parenting
Young adults
Sex and young people (information and advice about sex, contraception and relationships for teenagers)
Talk to Frank (honest information about drugs aimed at younger people)
Complementary therapies
Diabetes
Disabilities
Autism
Ambitious About Autism (online community)
Cerebral palsy
SCOPE (cerebral palsy)
Coronavirus
Information for families of disabled children
Down's syndrome
General
British Red Cross (support at home)
Challengers (inclusive play and leisure for disabled children and young people)
Contact (for parents of disabled children)
Disabled Living Foundation (solutions for independent living)
Hampshire Parent Carer Network
Limbless Association (for UK amputees and limb-loss community)
Macmillan Cancer Support (cancer-related information in Easy Read)
Marie Curie (information for anyone affected by terminal illness in Easy Read)
Rose Road Association (services for young disabled people aged 0 - 25, their parents, families and carers)
SeeAbility (specialist support, accommodation and eye care help for people with learning disabilities, autism and sight loss)
Hearing loss
Please see 'Ear, nose, throat and mouth' section
Learning disabilities
Easy Health (health information for people with learning disabilities)
Sight loss
Please see 'Eyes' section
Drugs
Prescribed medicines
Electronic Medicines Compendium (prescribed medicines info)
Recreational and street drugs
Ear, nose, throat, mouth
Action on Hearing Loss (formerly RNID)
British Deaf Association (BDA)
Butterfly Thyroid Cancer Trust
Deaf Cancer Wise (for people with hearing difficulties who are affected by cancer)
National Association of Laryngectomee Clubs
National Deaf Children's Society
North Hampshire Deaf Children's Society
Sense (for people with complex disabilities, including deafblind)
Sonus (for deaf people)
Spectrum (centre for independent living)
Eyes
Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
Living Paintings (tactile and audio books for blind children and adults)
Look (national federation of families with visually impaired children)
Royal College of Ophthalmologists
Royal National Institute for the Blind
SeeAbility (specialist support, accommodation and eye care help for people with learning disabilities, autism and sight loss)
Family planning, pregnancy, childbirth
Anthony Nolan Trust (information on umbilical cord blood donation)
BLISS (premature and sick baby charity)
British Pregnancy Advisory Service
Brook Pregnancy Advisory Service
National Childbirth Trust (NCT)
Twins Trust (formerly TAMBA)
Registration of births and deaths in Hampshire:
How to register a stillbirth or death
Bereavement
Fertility, infertility
General
Behind the headlines (NHS guide to the science that makes the news)
Connect to support Hampshire (adult social care)
Contact (directory of medical conditions, diagnosis and genetics)
Health and wellbeing directory (Hampshire Hospitals)
Healthtalk (people's real life experiences living with health conditions)
Healthier together (NHS parenting site)
Patient (health information)
Allergies
Benefits and community advice
British Red Cross (support at home)
Driving with a disability or health condition
Blood, organ and bone marrow donation
Participation in clinical trials or research projects
National Institute for Health Research
Travel information and advice
MASTA (medical advisory service for travellers abroad)
Healthy living
Health and wellbeing directory (Hampshire Hospitals)
Alcohol
Al-Anon (for families and friends of alcoholics)
Drink aware (alcohol awareness)
Inclusion (drug and alcohol services)
Diet
Change4Life (food facts)
Change4Life (healthy recipes)
Drugs
Inclusion (drug and alcohol services)
Exercise
Change4Life (activities)
Green Gym (gardening for health and wellbeing)
I Can Therapy Centre (helping people with health conditions to move more and feel better)
Park Run (free, weekly community events)
River Park Leisure Centre (Winchester)
This Girl Can (exercise ideas for women)
We Are Undefeatable (activities for people with long term health conditions) [NHS]
Smoking
Smokefree (NHS)
Heart, blood, circulation
Heart UK (cholesterol advice)
Lungs
HASAG (asbestos disease support)
Coronavirus
Men's health
Orchid Cancer Appeal (testicular, prostate and penile cancer)
Mental health (including bereavement)
Bereavement and counselling
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Hampshire Registration Service (how to register a death)
Mariposa Trust (support for bereaved parents)
NHS (to find local psychological support)
Relate (relationship/ marriage counselling)
Rosie Crane Trust (support for bereaved parents)
SANDS (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society)
Winston's Wish (charity for bereaved children)
General
Age UK (mental wellbeing for older people)
BEAT (eating disorders)
Children & Young People's Mental Health Coalition
Frazzled Cafe (peer support via online and face to face meetings)
Hub of Hope (mental health support network)
Marmalade Trust (support for loneliness)
Mind (information for adults)
Mind (information for children and young people)
NHS mental health and wellbeing
No Panic (for sufferers of panic and anxiety disorders, phobias, OCD, and withdrawal from tranquilisers)
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Shout - for support in a crisis
Silver Line (free 24-hour helpline for older people)
Sport in Mind (physical activities to help with mental health and wellbeing)
Zero Suicide Alliance (free suicide prevention training)
Older people
Basingstoke & Deane Over 55s Forum
British Red Cross (support at home)
Connect to Support Hampshire (help with care choices)
Silver Line (free 24-hour helpline for older people)
Pain (chronic)
Escape Pain (for people with chronic pain of the knee and/or hip joint)
Pain Toolkit (pain self management)
Relationships and sexual health
Avert (HIV and AIDS information)
Let's Talk About It (NHS Hampshire sexual health services)
Relate (relationship and marriage counselling)
Sexual Advice Association (male and female sexual problems)
Terrence Higgins Trust (HIV and sexual health information and services)
Skin, hair, nails
Stomach, bowel
Bladder and Bowel Foundation (incontinence)
IA (ileostomy and internal pouch support group)
PBC Foundation (primary biliary cirrhosis)
Women's health
Association for Postnatal Illness
British Society of Urogynaecology
Daisy Network (premature menopause)
Women's Aid (domestic violence affecting women and children)
