Bladder, kidney, liver
Bones and joints
NRAS (National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society)
Versus Arthritis (formerly Arthritis Research UK)
Brain and nervous system
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)
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
Deaf Cancer Wise (for people with hearing difficulties who are affected by cancer)
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)
Untire (app to help reduce fatigue)
Men
Orchid - fighting male cancer (testicular, prostate and penile cancer)
Other cancer
Anthony Nolan Trust (info on bone marrow donation and transplantation for leukaemia)
Bloodwise (formerly Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research)
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
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
General
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)
Well Child (national charity for sick children)
Winston’s wish (charity for bereaved children)
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
Disabilities
Autism
Ambitious About Autism (online community)
Cerebral palsy
SCOPE (cerebral palsy)
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)
TAMBA (Twins and Multiple Birth Association)
Registration of births and deaths in Hampshire:
How to register a stillbirth or death
Bereavement
SANDS (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society)
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)
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
Alcohol
Al-Anon (for families and friends of alcoholics)
Drink aware (alcohol awareness)
Inclusion (drug and alcohol services)
Diet
Drugs
Inclusion (drug and alcohol services)
Exercise
River Park Leisure Centre (Winchester)
Smoking
Smokefree (NHS)
Heart, blood, circulation
Lungs
Men's health
Everyman Campaign (male cancer)
Orchid Cancer Appeal (testicular, prostate and penile cancer)
Mental health
Bereavement and counselling
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Hampshire Registration Service (how to register a death)
Mariposa Trust (support for bereaved parents)
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
BEAT (eating disorders)
No Panic (for sufferers of panic and anxiety disorders, phobias, OCD, and withdrawal from tranquilisers)
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Older people
Basingstoke & Deane Over 55s Forum
British Red Cross (support at home)
Connect to Support Hampshire (help with care choices)
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)