These services include:-
| Information DGC is an international resource bureau | Lectures, Disfigurement Education and Social Skills Workshops | Research - Social, Educational and Medical |
| Patient and Family Consultations | Fax and Telephone Contact | Educational Projects |
| Publications | Together - a network of local co-ordinators | Social care and rehabilitation |
| Personal Postal Advisory Service | Skin Camouflage | Consultancy fund |
| Childfriend | International Skinlaser Directory | National Disfigurement Register of Specialist Services |
| Laserfair a campaign-appeal fund | Publishing a professional journal, Skinlaser Today | but read this |
Lectures and Disfigurement Education and Social Skills Workshops.: The Centre receives
professional and lay groups for lectures and talks, and also holds regular two-day workshops for
those in the caring professions whose work involves the help and support of disfigured patients and
their families.
Research - Social Educational and Medical: The DGC charity sponsors and undertakes research.
Students are welcomed by prior appointment, and the centre will assist in the preparation of
projects and theses on any aspect of disfigurement.
Patient and Family Consultations: for medically referred patients from throughout the United
Kingdom and abroad. Patients and their families can obtain help, guidance and continuing support.
Fax and Telephone Contact: The Centre provides a 24 hour Fax line and telephone answerphone
and a weekday telephone advisory contact facility. Specialist telephone consultations by
appointment only between 6.00 am - 8.30 am.
Educational Projects: Over the last twelve years we have instigated a number of disfigurement
education presentations and puppet theatre projects for young children. With the assistance of
experienced teachers, the Centre has researched and prepared an innovatory disfigurement
awareness campaign , together with a School's Resource Pack, for use in schools throughout the
United Kingdom.
Publications: The Centre has an extensive library of books, reports legislation and periodicals. It
collates and updates information and assessments and has a wide range of Disfigurement
Guidance Centre publications. This includes:-
Companion Book Treatment Guides for children and young adults;
Companion Book Guidelines for parents and families;
Companion Book Image Guides to social skills and self presentation;
a newsletter 'Bridge';
an annual International Skinlaser Directory;
an annual National Disfigurement Register;
a quarterly journal for professionals 'Skinlaser Today';
DGC School Report - the first and only large scale, one to one survey of the attitudes of children in
school
- and many other books and publications which can be obtained by post from the DGC.
Together: The centre has a 'Together' network of Regional and Area Co-ordinators. Local 'Link-lines'
to the charity's head offices provide an eminently sensible way of co-ordinating a nation-wide
support and information structure. Co-ordinators liaise with the Centre and other helping agencies to
ensure that the best possible assistance is always made available for people and families in their
own areas.
Social care and rehabilitation: The centre, in conjunction with medical and social work departments,
will sometimes be able to provide opportunities and work experience for men and women who are
disfigured.
Personal Postal Advisory Service: Our postal service is here to help you. We give our time and
specialised knowledge to you totally free of any charge, but we are a charity and would ask you to
enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope with any request for help or written information.
Skin Camouflage: Details of camouflage make-up and covering creams are available on request - if
accompanied by a stamped self-addressed envelope.
Consultancy fund: A special fund to help people with rare and unusual conditions to have
specialised care they need within the UK
Childfriend: a unique DGC concept for the creation of user-child-friendly laser treatment areas.
Improved Patient Service:
The information supplied has been approved in all cases by the clinician in charge and/or hospital
management.
GPs should write and enclose a C5 size, 36p stamped, self-addressed envelope in order to receive
their free copy of this useful Skinlaser Directory.
Improved Patient Service:
National Disfigurement Register of Specialist Services.
The information supplied has been approved in all cases by the clinician in charge and/or hospital
management. The DGC's new National Disfigurement Registry also includes details of voluntary and
professional sources of skin/disfigurement information and support, together with useful reading and
referral lists.
General Practitioners can obtain a copy of the new national Disfigurement Register totally free of
charge by writing with a C5 size, 36p stamped, self-addressed envelope.
Laserfair: A campaign-appeal fund launched and administered by the DGC to establish
comprehensive laser facilities within the NHS, for the early treatment of vascular and pigmented
lesions and a rapidly increasing range of other skin conditions in people of all ages. The DGC's
Laserfair Appeal Fund also sponsors and co-ordinates research to improve the treatment and
understanding of these conditions and holds two-day International Skinlaser Workshops.
International Skinlaser Directory.
General Practitioners can obtain a copy of our International Skinlaser directory totally free of charge.
This publication lists laser clinics within the NHS and private sector.
It notes the lasers in use at
each of these clinics and details the clinical applications of different lasers to assist doctors in
referring their patients to the laser centre offering the most appropriate treatments. Clinicians,
waiting lists, anaesthetic facilities, prices (where available), the availability of parking and other
relevant information is provided.
This new resource publication on the specialist services available for various disfiguring conditions
has been provided to meet the demands of changing NHS/GP services in the UK.
It is supplied to
General Practitioners in the UK free of charge, to enable them to locate specialist skills and refer
their patients to the clinic/hospital offering the most appropriate treatment.
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