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 ...

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 ...

The NHS telephone and online help service, also available to contact via social medias Twitter and Facebook. Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and offers nurse-led healthcare advice and information ...

NHS Direct has launched a free mobile app so people can access its trusted and reliable health advice conveniently from wherever they are. People with an Android smartphone can download the new app to ...

Joanne Shaw has been appointed as chair of NHS Direct to lead the trust for the next four years. Joanne Shaw has been appointed as chair of NHS Direct to lead the trust for the next four years. Joanne ...

INCREASING demand for the 24-hour helpline NHS Direct is putting pressure on the service a report claims today. INCREASING demand for the 24-hour helpline NHS Direct is putting pressure on the service ...

From this summer, people across the UK will be able to access health information through their televisions. The NHS Digital TV service, which will cost 15m over three years, will enable users to ...

HEALTH workers in East Lancashire could lose their jobs as a result of plans to scrap the medical helpline NHS Direct. NHS Direct confirmed that centres in Carlisle, Dudley, Exeter, Milton Keynes and ...

Patients in Oxfordshire use NHS Direct less than people in surrounding counties because GPs are failing to promote it, according to the scheme's managers. But one family doctor has claimed GPs have ...

Millions of Britons will soon be able to reach for their remote control and switch onto NHS Direct TV. The digital television channel, which is due to go on air over the summer, will offer health ...

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