Urgent care line NHS 111 has been rocked by news that a key provider, NHS Direct, has decided to pull out of all of its remaining contracts* to provide the service. Urgent care line NHS 111 has been ...
NHS Direct, the UK helpline which provides expert health advice via the telephone and internet, has had its Twitter account taken over by spammers promoting an Acai Berry diet. At 10:40pm UK time on ...
As specialists in telephone and web-based health advice and information, NHS Direct has developed a new and expanded range of services for 2006/2007, to better support other NHS organisations in ...
The introduction of NHS Direct had no impact on the number of general practice consultations during the winter of 1999-2000, finds a study in this week's BMJ, despite speculation that there was an ...
Relatively few people used NHS Direct when seeking to obtain NHS dental care. A local telephone helpline was used to direct people wanting NHS dental care to available services. Although some dental ...
An NHS mobile app that provides patients with health advice has been used by more than one million patients in its first six months. The NHS Direct app was released in May for Android or iPhone ...
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Unnecessary vet visits cost pet owners £118 million a year in vet fees, wasted miles and lost working time, according to research from pet insurer MORE TH>N. Such trips also cost British businesses ...
The call handling service NHS 111 increased the use of ambulance and urgent and emergency care services during its first year of operation, shows a detailed evaluation. The call handling service NHS ...
Janette Turner was funded by the Department of Health Policy Research Programme for the NHS111 pilot evaluation programme. The NHS 111 telephone service was designed to direct people to the right help ...
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MPs backed legislation to extend direct payments to health services, but called for greater clarity on how the system would work, in a House of Commons debate yesterday. The Health Bill would permit ...
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