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Self Care Toolkit

Self Care Toolkit

The Self Care Toolkit is a relaunched version of the Self Care Library, commissioned by the UK Department of Health as a free service to all giving sensible advice on what to do to help yourself when something goes wrong. It comes with a recommendation to always seek medical advice for relevant diagnoses, prescriptions and other treatment plans.

The toolkit includes information on twelve conditions where we can often do more for ourselves.

In each case practical self care options are set out with ratings for the strength of evidence, for safety and for cost.

For those who want to explore the evidence further links are provided to the scientific papers where the evidence is reviewed. There is also general advice for the management of each condition.

The twelve conditions included in the toolkit are:

  • Backpain
  • Depression
  • Fatigue
  • Headaches
  • IBS
  • Menopause
  • Migranes
  • Muscle ache
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Period problems
  • Sleep problems
  • Stress and anxiety

The focus of the toolkit is on approaches that any one could do for themselves, marking each out by how much independent evidence there is for benefit.

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