Patient.co.uk crowned as Britain's most popular health and wellbeing website

SHEFFIELD, U.K. - Nov. 26, 2013 - PRLog -- The UK's leading independent health information site, Patient.co.uk, has just been voted as the most popular health & wellbeing website in Britain's Website of the Year Awards.

Nominated in the awards' "health and wellbeing" category, Patient.co.uk provides free, trusted health information - which meets NHS England's quality mark, The Information Standard - to over 11 million people every month.

The site was revealed as the most popular health and wellbeing website at the Website of the Year Awards ceremony, held in London, on 22 November 2013, beating contenders in this category such as NHS Choices and Men's Health.

Collecting the award on behalf of Patient.co.uk, Operations Director Ben Foster said: "We are delighted to receive this award which recognises the positive impact we have in the health of millions of people. As a people's choice award, we would like to thank those who voted for us and gave us the 'thumbs up' for the free services we offer."

http://www.patient.co.uk/ also features a wellbeing centre, a free clinically-validated health check and thousands of health discussion forums.

The Website of the Year Awards are Britain's independent people's choice awards for websites and this year 238 websites were nominated in 20 categories.