Your health
If you need medical help or advice contact your GP, specialist medical team, or NHS 111.
For urgent medical help always go to your nearest A&E or call 999.
More information from The British Liver Trust
- Liver conditions A to Z
- Keeping warm
- Protecting yourself from infectious diseases
- COVID-19 information
- Liver cancer UK
- Children’s liver disease foundation
Other online information
Most of us look for health information online. But it can be hard to know who to trust.
- Learn more about finding health information online and why we do not recommend using AI for health information
- NHS website
- Macmillan cancer support
Your mental health and wellbeing
Living with a liver condition, or any kind of serious illness, can affect your mental health. It can feel even more difficult at this time of year.
If things are hard right now, don’t put off looking for help. Whatever you are going through, and whatever your condition, you deserve support.
Find out more:
- Looking after your mental health
- Coping with loneliness and difficult feelings at Christmas
- Talking to other people about your liver condition
Other support
- Samaritans helpline: 116 123
24/7 support for whatever you are going through, big or small, by phone, email, letter and a self-help app.
- Breathing space (Scotland only) helpline: 0800 83 85 87
Help for people in Scotland who are feeling worried or down. Available 24 hours at weekends and from 6pm to 2am on Weekdays.
- Calm helpline 0800 58 58 58
Helpline and webchat available from 5pm to midnight, 365 days a year. For people who are feeling down or have hit a wall for any reason and need to talk.
- Shout text helpline 85258
Text support 24/7 for a range of issues including depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts and living with chronic pain.
Information and support for people coping with grief.
Support for you and your loved ones
We offer a range of support options for anyone living with a liver condition and for their family, friends, and carers.
Our nurse-led helpline will be taking calls up to until 4pm on Friday December 19th and opening again at 9am on Monday January 5th.
You can join our supportive online community anytime and connect with others who have been affected by liver disease.
Helping you to support your loved one
If your loved one has a liver condition, or if you are worried that they could be at risk, we have information to help you support them.
Support for carers
Supporting someone through a very difficult time can be a huge challenge. If you are a carer it is important to look after your own wellbeing and ask for support when you need it too.
Other support for families, friends, and carers
- Refuge national domestic abuse helpline 0808 2000 247
Free confidential helpline open 24 hours a day for anyone experiencing domestic abuse.
Support for families affected by someone’s drinking, drug use or gambling.
Website offering information and signposting to support for people who have been bereaved
Money worries
With the demands of the holidays and the colder weather, this can be an expensive time of year. We have information to help.
- Cost of living support
- Benefits
- Help with prescription costs
- Keeping warm
- Money information for family, friends, and carers
Other money information and support
Patient stories
Whatever you are going through this holiday season. You are not alone. Even if you cannot connect with someone in person right now it can help to know that others have been through similar things to you.
Many people have shared their own experience of liver disease with us. You can find their stories here.