Local
and National Sources of Help and Advice
This information is provided by the University Health Visitor,
The Medical Centre
Medical
Services
Harcourt
Hill Students Dr. Williamson, Jericho and West
Oxford (Botley) Health Centre, West Oxford Community Centre,
Botley Rd, Oxford Tel: 01865 429 993.
Wheatley
Campus Medical Services Morland House Surgery Tel: 01865
872 448
- for Drs. Appts and nursing advice when the Wheatley Campus surgery
is closed.
Eye Hospital Tel: 01865 234800 - for all
eye casualties
Dentist (Studental)
Tel: 01865 484608 - Local service on Gipsy Lane Campus
Ring a Ride Tel: 01865 744478 - Local bus service
for people unable to use ordinary buses, door to door bus service.
Passengers may have a permenant or temporary disability.
Patient
UK A comprehensive website on health matters. With
information, advice and links to other sites.
The
Diabetes Association Tel: 020 7636 6112, Email careline@diabetes.org.uk
- Diabetes UK is the leading charity working for people with
diabetes. We fund research, campaign and help people to live with
the condition.
Meningitis
Trust 24 hour helpline Tel: 0845 6000 800 -
Working towards a world that is free from meningitis and
where those affected by the disease receive quality care
and support for life.
Osteopathy
Brookes
clinics provide a full range of osteopathic treatments across
the lifespan (ante/postnatal, children, adults and older
people). They also provide comprehensive treatment options
for sports injuries and follow-up care. Discounts are available
for both staff and students.
Mental
Health and Well Being and Advice services
Counselling
and Advisory Service Brookes University Tel: 01865
484650 - Our Counselling Service gives you the opportunity to
explore in confidence anything important to you, such as fear
of failure, bereavement, relationship problems or depression.
Student Union
Advice Centre Tel: 01865 484770 - Advice and information
from the Oxford Brookes Student Union. Issues include: academic,
housing and financial.
Mental
Health Resource Centre Tel: 01865 728981 - provides
advice and information to anyone on any aspect of mental health.
Samaritans
Tel: 01865 722122 - Samaritans is available 24 hours a day to
provide confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing
feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead
to suicide.
Citizens Advice Bureau Tel: 0870 1264114
- The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal,
money and other problems by providing free information and advice
from over 3,200 locations, and by influencing policymakers.
Relate
Tel: 01865 242960 - Relate offers advice, relationship counselling,
sex therapy, workshops, mediation, consultations and support face-to-face,
by phone and via a website.
Cruse
Tel: 01865 245398 - Bereavement care, Anyone can contact Cruse
if they want to talk about themselves or someone they know who
has been affected by a death.
BEAT
Beating Eating Disorders Tel: 0845 634 1414 (8.30am - 8.30pm)
- Information and help on all aspects of eating disorders,
including Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, binge eating
disorder and related eating disorders.
Depression
Alliance Depression Alliance is the leading UK charity
for people with depression. They work to relieve and to prevent
this treatable condition by providing information, support and
understanding to those who are affected by it.
SANE SANE
was established in 1986. From its initial focus on schizophrenia,
SANE developed and is now concerned with all mental illnesses.
Changing
Minds Changing Minds is not a campaign about "them
out there" - it is a campaign about us, all of us, and how
mental health problems touch our lives.
Mental
Health Foundation A comprehensive website on mental
health (and mental illness) in the UK. The site is run by the
Mental Health Foundation, a leading UK charity working in mental
health and learning disabilities.
Skill: National Bureau for Students With Disabilities
Skill is a national charity promoting opportunities for young
people and adults with any kind of disability in post-16 education,
training and employment across the UK.
Drugs,
Alcohol and Smoking
Smart
Tel: 01865 403240 - Offers confidential advice information
and counselling to anyone who feels they have a problem
around drugs and alcohol or who would like to know a bit
more or just have a chat
National Drugs Helpline Tel: 0800 77 66 00 -
The National Drugs Helpline is a 24-hour, seven-days a week, free
and confidential telephone service that offers advice and information
for those who are concerned, or have questions, about drugs. The
service is available to anyone.
Drugscope.uk
- DrugScope is the UK's leading independent centre of expertise
on drugs.
Release
Tel: 020 729 9904 - Release offers a range of specialist services
to professionals and the public concerning drugs and the law.
They offer a Legal Helpline and Heroin Helpline. Release provides
advice to drug users, their families, friends, and statutory and
voluntary agencies. Our advice is free, professional, non-judgmental
and confidential.
Drinkline
Tel: 0800 917 8282 (9.00am-11.00pm, Monday to Friday) - The National
Alcohol Helpline.
Alcoholics
Anonymous Tel: 01865 242373 - If you, or someone
you know, needs help with a drink problem. AA help and advice
is free to all who request it. They hold meetings in every town
and city.
Talk
to Frank Tel: 0800 77 66 00 - For free confidential
drugs information and advice 24 hours a day talk to FRANK.
Quit
line Tel: 0800 00 2200 - Support line for those giving
up smoking. Or email ahinton@brookes.ac.uk,
university health visitor, for on campus support and advice.
Sexual
Health
Alec Turnbull Clinic (Family Planning Clinic)
- 1st
Floor, Raglan House, Between Towns Road, Cowley, Oxford
OX43JH
Tel: 01865 456666.
- The Alec Turnbull Clinic provides contraception, emergency
contraception and on-the-spot pregnancy testing. The clinic
can also provide advice on pregnancy and abortion and pre-abortion
counselling, as well as refer women directly to the John
Radcliffe Hospital for a termination.
The Harrison Department (GUM Clinic) -
Churchill Hospital Tel: 01865 231231 -
Free clinic offering information, counselling and testing
for HIV & AIDS and all other sexually transmitted infections.
Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Line Tel: 01865
726295 - Phone cover and answer machine.
Terrence Higgins Trust,
Oxfordshire Tel: 01865 243389 (THT Direct Helpline
Tel: 0845 1221200) - THT is the leading HIV and AIDS charity in
the UK and the largest in Europe.
Oxford Friend
Tel: 01865 726893 - Information, support and counselling on lesbian,
gay, bisexual and related issues.
