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Wellbeing: Useful Resources

General Health Resources

When you enrol with us at Coventry University London, you must register with a doctor as soon as possible. It is a condition of the National Health Service (NHS) that you should register with a General Practitioner (GP) surgery close to your term-time address if you're planning to live there for more than three months. GPs provide routine health care (e.g. physical examinations, immunizations) and assess and treat many different conditions, including illnesses and injuries. Below are links to useful NHS websites.

NHS Homepage Information from the National Health Service on conditions, treatments, local services and healthy living.
NHS Service Locator Use the service finder to search for your nearest GP surgery, dentist, urgent care health services or other NHS clinic. Try searching by service name, service type, condition or surgical procedure.
NHS 111 Service 111 is the NHS non-emergency number. Call 111 when you need medical help fast but it’s not a 999 emergency and speak to a highly trained adviser, supported by healthcare professionals. They will ask you a series of questions to assess your symptoms and immediately direct you to the best medical care for you.

Personal Health Resources

NHS Better Heath provides a series of guides designed to improve your health and get you fitter. These may be useful if you're thinking of quitting smoking, losing weight or drinking less alcohol. There's also advice and tips for improving your fitness levels.

Self Help Resources

There are often things we would like to change or things that we find difficult. We can use self-help techniques to help improve these areas. The resources below can help you to help yourself.

Living Life To The Full The Living Life to the Full course is a life skills course that aims to provide access to high quality, practical and user-friendly training in life skills.
Mind Charity - How to cope with student life Information for new students provided by Mind - it explains how having a mental health problem can impact upon being a student, and suggests ways of coping and where to go for support.
Moodjuice Moodjuice Forth Valley is a site design to offer information, advice to those experiencing troublesome thoughts, feelings and actions. From the site you are able to print off various self-help guides covering conditions such as depression, anxiety, stress, panic and sleep problems. In the site you can explore various aspects of you life that may be causing you some distress and at the click of a button obtain information on organisations, services and other self-help materials that can offer you support and information to help yourself.

Health and Well-being Reading List

For more material such as useful websites, books, journal articles and more, please visit this reading list.