Web site links

MSCTG is not responsible for any material on others sites they link to.

Just a few good web sites to further your knowledge about Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia, if you would like more information or more web sites to visit please feel free to contact us at the Merton Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Group office on 020 8646 8778. If you would like to link your web site with ours please contact naheed@msctg.org.uk

Please Click on any of the links below to visit the websites, just in case our links fail we have listed the whole URL links so that you can copy and paste them into a new window to view them.

Sickle Cell

Your Genes Your health: www.yourgenesyourhealth.org/sickle/whatisit.htm highly recommend by MSCTG as an easy to use and visual explanation of Sickle Cell disorder.

Sickle cell disease www.sicklecelldisease.org

National Health Service Direct - Sickle Cell www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/en.asp?TopicID=416&AreaID=3425&LinkID=2500

or type www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk and search for Sickle Cell

Development of a Comprehensive Care Program for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/comp_care.html

Transition of Patients with Sickle Cell Disease from Pediatric to Adult Care http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/transition.HTML

Thalassaemia

E Thal , an online Thalassaemia Community www.ethal.org.my/opencms/opencms/ethal/index.html?lang=en

Baby World, - Your baby's special needs with Thalassaemia www.babyworld.co.uk/information/baby/special_needs/thalassaemia.asp

National Health Service Direct – Thalassaemia www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/en.asp?TopicID=444 or go to www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk and search for Thalassaemia

Partnership work:

Merton Unity Network: http://www.mertonunitynetwork.org.uk

Local National Health Services:

Sutton Merton Primary Care Trust: This website is your guide to health services in Sutton and Merton. http://www.suttonandmerton.nhs.uk

Wandsworth Primary Care Trust: this website is your guild to health services in Wandsworth. http://www.wandsworth-pct.nhs.uk