Selected Guides
Before Your Appointment
Guides to help you prepare for a conversation with a doctor, nurse, pharmacist or other health professional: what to write down, what to bring and which questions are worth asking.
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Health Basics
How to Prepare for a Medical Appointment
A before, during and after guide with a one-page note you can copy, so the short time in the room goes on what matters most to you.
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Sleep & Rest
A Simple Sleep Diary: What to Record and Why
A two-minute morning and evening template, four rules for keeping it honest, and how to read two weeks of entries without over-interpreting them.
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Health Basics
Understanding Relative and Absolute Risk
Why '50% higher risk' can mean one extra case in a thousand, shown with one invented example worked through step by step.
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Health Basics
Questions to Ask When a Test or Treatment Is Suggested
Four short questions, known in the UK as BRAN, plus a few more for tests and treatments, and how to use them to take part in the decision.
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Health Basics
Keeping an Up-to-Date List of Medicines and Supplements
What to write down, a four-column template to copy, why supplements go on the same list, and how to keep it current.
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Move
Adapting Activity Plans to Your Abilities and Circumstances
What public guidance says about activity for disabled people, long-term conditions, pregnancy, older age and carers, and how to shape a plan that fits.
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Health Basics
What a Screening Test Can — and Cannot — Tell You
Screening looks for a higher chance of a condition in people who feel well. What a result means, what it cannot settle, and three terms worth knowing.
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Sleep & Rest
Preparing to Talk to a Clinician About Ongoing Sleep Problems
What to bring, what you are likely to be asked, details worth mentioning unprompted, and questions to take into the room.
