An Oxford medical team has won an award for its innovative website.
DIPex, created at the Department of Primary Care in Headington, has won the Medical Social Innovations Award 2001.
The website uses videos of patients, combined with their own words, to describe the experience of suffering from an illness.
Doctors Ann McPherson and Andrew Herxheimer were inspired to create the site five years ago, after being patients themselves.
A small medical team, based at the Institute of Health Sciences in Old Road, Headington, interviewed up to 60 patients to build up a wide picture of each condition. The website, www.dipex.org, was launched in July and covers conditions such as hypertension and prostate cancer.
A breast cancer site will open in December, and next year there will be sites on cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
A CD-ROM of information from the site will soon be made available in GPs' surgeries, hospital outpatient departments and libraries.
The Innovations Award came from the Institute of Social Inventions in London, which gives annual awards for the best ideas submitted to its website.
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