Useful links

Ronald McDonald House Charities International

Visit Ronald McDonald House Charities’ international website to find out more about RMHC Worldwide and how it all started. Like us, the US Charity believe that when you change a child’s life, you change a family’s, which can change a community, and ultimately the world. Read more.

Action for Sick Children

Action for Sick Children is dedicated to ensuring that children and young people receive the highest standards of healthcare possible. The charity’s mission is to ensure that healthcare in the UK meets the unique needs of all children and young people and their families.
With over 50 years’ experience, Action for Sick Children campaigns on all aspects of healthcare, whether in hospital or at home, and from national policies to individual family cases. The charity believes that family focused environments, as well as excellent medical services, are critical to aiding recovery. Action for Sick Children provides leadership at local and national levels. The charity works to harness the experience and expertise of children, parents and their families as well as healthcare professionals, defining standards in child healthcare and lobbying to implement these standards.

For further details, please visit Action for Sick Children’s website: http://www.actionforsickchildren.org

Action for Sick Children is a registered charity, registered charity number 296295.

NHS

Children can find going to hospital a daunting experience. This is partly to do with their treatment but also because the hospital is a new and strange environment, full of new sights, smells, noises and people. If possible, talk to your child before leaving for hospital and explain what they should expect.

For more information on the NHS or to find your nearest hospital click here.

For information and advice on symptoms visit www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk.

Best Health

Best Health gives you reliable, easy-to-understand information, to help you make the best decisions about your healthcare.

Discover all you need to know about medical conditions, and find out which treatments really work. Best Health sets out your treatment options, and rates them according to their benefits and side effects.

Visit www.besttreatments.co.uk.

Bliss

Bliss, the special care baby charity, provides vital support and care to premature and sick babies across the UK. Bliss is the only national charity dedicated to improving both the survival and long-term quality of life for babies born too soon, too small or too sick to cope on their own. Read more by visiting www.bliss.org.uk.