{"id":1116,"date":"2026-09-07T17:47:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55201\/?page_id=1116"},"modified":"2026-09-07T17:47:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:47:31","slug":"useful-website","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55201\/useful-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"site_links\">\n<li><strong><u>Help and advice with various conditions:<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Insomnia:<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sleepio.com\/nhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sleepio<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; online sleep improvement programme<\/li>\n<li>Anxiety &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trydaylight.com\/nhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daylight<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; digital anxiety improvement programme<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-anonuk.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Al-Anon<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Help and advice for family and friends of people with alcohol problems<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alcoholics Anonymous<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nHelp and advice for people with an alcohol problem<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besttreatments.co.uk\/btuk\/home.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Best Treatments<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\ninformation on a range of medical conditions and their treatment.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Bowel cancer screening\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bowelscreening.scot.nhs.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bowel Cancer Screening<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>link to NHS Scotland bowel screening site with information about the bowel cancer screening program.<\/p>\n<p>Bowel cancer is a common cancer but if detected early can be successfully treated.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"site_links\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancerbackup.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cancer Backup<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nuseful information on various forms of cancer from MacMillan<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafamily.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact a family<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nInformation on disabilities in children with useful contacts for people caring for sick or disabled children.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"dementia friendly community\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adementiafriendlycommunity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Dementia friendly community<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Link to local site with information on living with dementia.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"site_links\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.depressioncentre.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Depression Centre<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nPersonalised interactive tools to help with depression<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diabetes.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diabetes UK<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nUseful site with infomation and advice regarding diabetes<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livinglifetothefull.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Living life to the full<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nSelf-help website for people suffering from depression<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.menopausematters.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Menopause matters<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nUseful site with information regarding the menopause and its treatment<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/moodgym.anu.edu.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mood Gym<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nSelf-help website for people suffering with depression<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mssociety.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Multiple sclerosis Society<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\ninformation on multiple sclerosis<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"recovering from surgery\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rcseng.ac.uk\/patients\/recovering-from-surgery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Recovering from surgery<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Royal College of Surgeons website giving useful information about various types of surgery and likely course of recovery, including returning to work.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"recovering from gynaecological surgery\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rcog.org.uk\/en\/patients\/patient-leaflets\/?q=&amp;subject=Recovering+Well&amp;orderby=title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recovering from gynaecological\u00a0surgery<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists website giving information on various operations and the likely course of recovery from them.<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Local Hospitals etc<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhshighland.scot.nhs.uk\/Services\/Pages\/CaithnessGeneralHospital.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caithness General Hospital<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nLink to the hospital in Wick &#8211; some of the specialists from here come down to do clinics in Golspie.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhshighland.scot.nhs.uk\/Services\/Pages\/RaigmoreHospital.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raigmore Hospital<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nLink to Raigmore hospital website.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs24.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NHS24<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nInformation on NHS24 and a useful section on support groups &#8211; purple section on the home page.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<strong><u>Health organisations<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forhighlandschildren.org\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Child protection<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&#8220;For Highland&#8217;s children&#8221; website &#8211; information about child protection and how to\u00a0\u00a0report\u00a0any\u00a0concerns<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"site_links\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patients-association.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patient&#8217;s association<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nPatient&#8217;s association website<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhf.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British Heart Foundation<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nheart disease charity, with some useful information<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talktofrank.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Talk to Frank<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nInformation on drugs for those with a drug problem or anyone worried about friends or relatives<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sexualhealthscotland.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sexual Health Scotland<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nSexual Health Scotland website<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getthelowdown.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Get the lowdown<\/strong> <\/a>&#8211; teenage health advice<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngscot.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Youngscot<\/strong> <\/a>help for teenagers and young adults<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/brook.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brook<\/a> <\/strong>pregnancy and sexual health advice<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"YoungMinds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youngminds.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>YoungMinds<\/strong> <\/a>&#8211; Health advice for children, teenagers and their parents and friends.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Parent Hub\u00a0<\/strong><a id=\"LPlnkOWAd366e685-6d5a-25b1-40b7-81f8f196b9d5\" title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/nhsh.uk.engagementhq.com\/planet-youth-highland. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnhsh.uk.engagementhq.com%2Fplanet-youth-highland&amp;data=05%7C02%7CJo-Anne.Hirst%40nhs.scot%7Cd4e9b28426bb485f032008ddcaab2b2f%7C10efe0bda0304bca809cb5e6745e499a%7C0%7C0%7C638889558695030491%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=bVUVtECDBBQ3HCwlKCJwYXTY7l1JmqDLUUK7J7rlpHs%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The Parent Hub &#8211; Planet Youth Highland | NHS Highland Engagement Hub<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\"><b><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Parent and Carer Health and Wellbeing information and support:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\"><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/padlet.com\/PlanetYouthHighland\/planet-youth-parent-and-carer-padlet-working-with-communitie-m6ddc873byvsdsod. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.com%2FPlanetYouthHighland%2Fplanet-youth-parent-and-carer-padlet-working-with-communitie-m6ddc873byvsdsod&amp;data=05%7C02%7CJo-Anne.Hirst%40nhs.scot%7Cd4e9b28426bb485f032008ddcaab2b2f%7C10efe0bda0304bca809cb5e6745e499a%7C0%7C0%7C638889558695075886%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=3XwrvtXkrbLVh6SZaLE3FhjzOzhXIGdfWkyV78Qovs8%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\">https:\/\/padlet.com\/PlanetYouthHighland\/planet-youth-parent-and-carer-padlet-working-with-communitie-m6ddc873byvsdsod<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Translated information<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poltran.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poltran<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nEnglish-Polish\/Polish-English translation site<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthscotland.com\/documents\/3421.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">translated information about genital herpes<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthscotland.com\/documents\/3423.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">translated information about gonorrhoea<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthscotland.com\/documents\/3422.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">translated information about genital warts<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Dornoch<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitdornoch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit Dornoch<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nInformation about Dornoch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help and advice with various conditions: Insomnia:Sleepio\u00a0&#8211; online sleep improvement programme Anxiety &#8211; Daylight &#8211; digital anxiety improvement programme Al-Anon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1116","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}