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Contraception
UK sources of information and / or support
fpa (formerly the Family Planning Association)
Sexual Health and Contraceptive Advice.
Brook Advisory Centres
Sexual Health and Contraceptive Advice.
Caledonia Youth
Caledonia Youth provides confidential support in both educational and clinical environments to enable all young people in Scotland to make informed, responsible choices about their personal and sexual relationships. Covers a wide variety of sexual health issues. It is aimed at young people under 25, particularly teenagers.
Marie Stopes International (Family Planning)
International reproductive healthcare charity working in 25 countries providing one and a half million women and their families with family planning and birth control.
Natural Family Planning (Fertility)
'Fertility' is an educational service, offering instruction and counselling in Fertility Awareness and Natural Family Planning (NFP) for women and couples.
Womens health information
Information for women & their partners regarding pregnancy choices, complications and investigations, in addition to some information on common gynaecological conditions.
Contraception
Women’s Health Concern provides an independent service to advise, reassure and educate women about their health concerns. They provide a range of factsheets including one in this area.
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Their website has a section aimed at the general public. All the information on this section comes from up-to-date and carefully-checked guidance for doctors, but it's been written in a way that makes it clearer for the non-medical person. Includes a leaflet on sterilisation for women and men.
Long-acting reversible contraception
A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Long-acting reversible contraception.
Hysteroscopic sterilisation by tubal cannulation and placement of intrafallopian implant
A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Hysteroscopic sterilisation by tubal cannulation and placement of intrafallopian implant.
Laparoscopic Sterilisation
Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide a wide range of patient information leaflets including one in this area.
Laparoscopic Female Sterilisation
This site is edited by Derek McLintock, BSc MB BS FRCOG, a Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician based in Hertfordshire, UK.
Medicine Guide for Contraception
Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines (drugs), conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project.
Medicine Guide for Emergency Hormonal Contraception
Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines (drugs), conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project.
International Planned Parenthood Federation, the (IPPF)
Links national autonomous Family Planning Associations (FPAs) in over 150 countries worldwide. It is registered as a charity in the United Kingdom and is the largest voluntary organization in the world to be concerned with family planning and sexual and reproductive health.
Oakdin Vasectomy Reversal Clinic
A private clinic but their website includes information on vasectomy and vasectomy reversal.
Faculty of Family Planning
A faculty of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Produces guidelines on various aspects of contraception. Aimed at health professionals but of interest to all.
Youth Health Talk - Contraceptives
This is a website about young people’s real life experiences of health and lifestyle. It is not just a website about the medical facts, this is about real people and real lives.
Contraception
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Intrauterine device (IUD)
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Combined contraceptive pill
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Condoms (male and female)
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Contraceptive implants and injections
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Contraceptive patch
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Progestogen-only pill
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Diaphragms and caps
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Emergency contraceptive pill
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Emergency contraception
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Intrauterine device (IUD)
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Intrauterine system (IUS)
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Female sterilisation
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Male contraceptive pill
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Hormonal contraception
Information from BUPA.
Further sources / more detailed information
Some non-UK sites
The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.
- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.
- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.
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