Glue Ear

UK sources of information and / or support

 The leaflets section of Patient UK

Includes leaflets called

• Glue Ear
• Operations for Glue Ear
• Glue Ear - Picture Summary

 Royal National Institute for Deaf People

Have a good factsheet on glue ear.

 ENT UK

The British Association of Head and Neck Surgeons provides information concerning glue ear.

 National Deaf Children's Society

Provide information about glue ear.

 Glue Ear and Grommets

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide a wide range of patient information leaflets including one in this area.

  Surgical management of OME: Understanding NICE guidance

A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Surgical management of OME: Understanding NICE guidance. (OME stands for 'otitis media with effusion' which is the medical term for glue ear.)

 Insertion of Grommets

West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust provide a wide range of patient information, including one in this area.

 Glue ear

Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.

 Glue ear

Information from BUPA.

 Glue Ear

Information from BMJ best treatments.

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.