Dr Foster health & medical guides
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Dr Foster Health is the complete online medical guide resource that provides essential information on NHS and private health services in your area.
Find out about hospital waiting times, discover details about the medical professionals that could be treating you and learn the right questions to ask about your health and treatment.
The guides are brought to you by Dr Foster, the UK's leading independent provider of health information.
Hospital Guide Report 2008
The health of our hospitals revealed
Dr Foster reveals the health of our hospitals in the annual Hospital Guide. This year's report focuses on three dimensions of quality: patient safety, effectiveness of care and patient experience.
Key findings include: market reforms beginning to bite in the NHS; another year where overall mortality ratios have fallen; wide variations in access to cancer treatments and much more...
Feature: Obesity Map of Britain
See how your local region measures up...
Dr Foster has compiled information on local obesity rates for Britain's population based on the most up to date data available.
View our interactive map which shows you the prevalence of obesity in all local health regions for England, Scotland and Wales.
You can also read more about obesity in the Dr Foster Health medical dictionary.
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Cataract surgery
The medical dictionary contains definitions of conditions, treatments, diagnostic tests and other essential medical information.
The entry for cataract surgery covers all you need to know about an operation to remove a cloudy lens (a cataract) in your eye. It explains how the operation is performed, the associated risks, and also has expert opinion on the procedure.
You can find out about other this and many other surgical procedures in the medical dictionary.