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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 ...

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 ...

A new career opportunity has opened up for qualified dental nurses at NHS Direct as it expands its team to answer the growing number of dental enquiries the service receives. Dental nurse advisors now ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many diabetes sufferers cannot understand the health advice they are given on the NHS Direct Online website and many other internet pages, a new study concludes. The language of the diabetes pages of ...

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NHS Direct is handling more than 4,000 calls a week from people suffering from suspected norovirus, figures showed today. Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ clinical articles, learning ...