For your convenience, organisations are grouped by type of critical illness under the following section headings:
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Brain and Spine Conditions |
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Cancer and Related Diseases |
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Children's Conditions |
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Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke |
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Kidney, Liver and Lung Conditions |
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Other Critical Illness-Related Conditions |
Click on one of the headings above to go to that section, then click on the name of an organisation to go to its website.
NHS
Direct Online
National
electronic Library for Health
Alzheimer's
Society
Tel: 020 7306 0606
Fax: 020 7306 0808
Helpline: 08453 000336
BASIC (Brain
And Spinal Injury Charity)
Tel: 0161 707 6441
Fax: 0161 206 4558
Brain Injury Rehabilitation
Trust 
Tel: 01924 896100
Fax: 01924 899264
British
Brain and Spine Foundation
Tel: 020 7793 5900
Fax: 020 7793 5939
Helpline: 0808 808 1000
British
Brain Tumour Association
Tel: 0151 929 3229
Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Disease Support Network
Tel: 01630 673993
Fax: 01630 673993
Helpline: 01630 673973
for dementia
Tel: 020 7874 7210
Fax: 020 7874 7219
Headway National
Head Injuries Association
Tel: 0115 924 0800
Fax: 0115 958 4446
Meningitis
Trust
Tel: 01453 768000
Fax: 01453 768001
Helpline: 08456 000800
Motor Neurone
Disease Association
Tel: 01604 250505
Fax: 01604 638289
Helpline: 08457 626262
Multiple Sclerosis
Society
Tel: 020 8438 0700
Fax: 020 8438 0701
Helpline: 0808 800 8000
Parkinson's
Disease Society
Tel: 020 7931 8080
Fax: 020 7233 9908
Helpline: 0808 800 0303
Spinal Injuries
Association
Tel: 08456 786633
Fax:
01908 608492
Helpline: 0800 980 0501
Aplastic Anaemia
Trust
Tel: 0870 487 0099
Fax: 01634 844062
Beating Bowel
Cancer
Tel: 020 8892 5256
Fax: 020 8892 1008
Breakthrough
Breast Cancer
Tel: 020 7025 2400
Fax: 020 7025 2401
Breast
Cancer Campaign
Tel: 020 7749 3700
Fax: 020 7749 3701
Breast
Cancer Care
Tel: 020 7384 2984
Fax: 020 7384 3387
Helpline: 0808 800 6000
Bristol
Cancer Help Centre
Tel: 0117 980 9500
Fax: 0117 923 9184
CancerBACUP
Tel: 020 7696 9003
Fax: 020 7696 9002
Cancer
Research UK
Tel: 020 7242 0200
Fax: 020 7269 3100
Colon Cancer
Concern
Tel: 0870 850 6050
Fax: 020 7381 5752
Leukaemia Research
Fund
Tel: 020 7405 0101
Fax: 020 7405 3139
Macmillan Cancer
Line
Tel: 0808 808 2020
Fax: 020 7840 7841
Orchid Cancer
Appeal [Testicular and Prostate Cancer]
Tel: 020 7601 7808
Fax: 020 7600 1155
Ovacome [Ovarian
Cancer]
Tel: 020 7380 9589
Fax: 020 7380 9589
Prostate
Cancer Charity (UK)
Tel: 020 8222 7622
Fax: 020 8222 7639
Helpline: 08453 008383
Roy Castle Cause
for Hope Foundation [Lung Cancer]
Tel: 0800 358 7200
Fax: 0141 331 0590
Action
for Sick Children
Tel: 01455 845600
Fax: 01455 845593
Helpline: 08000 744519
Association for Children
with Life-Threatening/Terminal Conditions
Tel: 0117 922 1556
Fax: 0117 930 4707
Helpline: 0117 922 1556
Clic Sargent
Tel: 020 8752 2800
Fax: 020 8752 2806
Children with Leukaemia
Charitable Trust
Tel: 020 7404 0808
Fax: 020 7404 3666
Children's Leukaemia
and Cancer Support
Tel: 01773 762748
Fax: 01773 710351
Children's
Liver Disease Foundation
Tel: 0121 212 3839
Fax: 0121 212 4300
Contact a Family
Tel: 020 7608 8700
Fax: 020 7608 8701
Helpline: 0808 808 3555
National Deaf Children's
Society
Tel: 020 7490 8656
Fax: 020 7251 5020
Helpline: 0808 800 8880
Textphone: 0808 800 8880
Teenage Cancer
Trust
Tel: 020 7387 1000
Fax: 020 7387 6000
SIDS (Foundation
for the Study of Infant Deaths)
Tel: 0870 787 0885
Fax: 0870 787 0725
Helpline: 0870 787 0554
CORONARY HEART DISEASE AND STROKE
British Cardiac Patients
Association
Tel: 01954 202022
Fax: 01954 202022
Helpline: 01223 846845
British Heart Foundation
Tel: 020 7935 0185
Fax: 020 7486 5820
Coronary Artery
Disease Research
Tel: 020 7349 8686
Fax: 020 7349 9414
Different
Strokes
Tel: 08451 307 172
Fax: 01908 313501
The Stroke Association
Tel: 020 7566 0300
Fax: 020 7490 2686
Helpline: 08453 033100
KIDNEY, LIVER AND LUNG CONDITIONS
British
Liver Trust
Tel: 01425 463080
Fax: 01425 470706
British Lung Foundation
Tel: 020 7688 5555
Fax: 020 7688 5556
British
Organ Donor Society (BODY)
Tel: 01223 893636
National Kidney
Federation
Tel: 01909 487795
Fax: 01909 481723
Helpline: 08456 010209
UK Renal Registry
Tel: 0117 959 5665
Fax: 0117 959 5664
OTHER CRITICAL ILLNESS-RELATED CONDITIONS
Action for Blind People
Tel: 020 7635 4800
Fax: 020 7635 4900
Arthritis
Care
Tel: 020 7380 6500
Fax: 020 7380 6505
Helpline: 0808 800 4050
Arthritis Research
Campaign
Tel: 01246 558033
Fax: 01246 558007
British Deaf Association
Tel: 020 7588 3520
Fax: 020 7588 3527
Helpline: 0870 770 3300
Textphone: 0800 652 2965
Diabetes UK
Tel: 020 7424 1000
Fax: 020 7424 1001
Insulin
Dependent Diabetes Trust
Tel: 01604 622837
Fax: 01604 622838
National Rehabilitation Centre for Deaf Blind People
Tel: 01733 325353
Fax: 01733 323101
National Spinal Injuries Centre
Tel: 01296 315000
RADAR (The Royal
Association for Disability & Rehabilitation)
Tel: 020 7250 3222
Fax: 020 7250 0212
RNIB (The Royal National
Institute for the Blind)
Tel: 020 7388 1266
Fax: 020 7388 2034
Helpline: 08457 669999
RNID (The Royal National
Institute for the Deaf)
Tel: 020 7296 8000
Fax: 020 7296 8199
Helpline: 0808 808 0123
Textphone: 0808 808 9000
Terence Higgins Trust
Tel: 020 7831 0330
Fax: 020 7816 4551
Helpline: 020 7242 1010
THT Advice and Information Helpline: 0845 1221 200