Commissioning accountability and responsibility for all ‘highly’ specialised services, high secure mental health services and a small number of specialised services will transfer to DHSC. The national ...
The coalition government has confirmed plans to scrap the NHS Direct helpline in England and replace it with a cheaper option. People who have used the service have been sending their reaction to the ...
NHS Direct was set up in the late 1990s as a phone advice service NHS Direct - one of the most recognisable names in the NHS - will be closed down in England next year. The organisation, which is an ...
The telephone health advice service, NHS Direct, is to close most of its call centres with the loss of hundreds of nursing jobs, unions have claimed. The service is being replaced from next April by ...
Medical helpline NHS Direct is to be scrapped as the new non-emergency phone number 111 is rolled out, it was disclosed today. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham criticised the move and the manner ...
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 ...
Patients calling the NHS Direct helpline are being put at risk by long delays and nurses who miss crucial danger signals, according to researchers. An undercover study in March shows that the service ...
Someone tweeting about a nasty cold or updating a Facebook status to 'got the flu' might soon be looking at an advert for a specific NHS Direct service. Roger Donald, acting associate director of ...
NHS Direct saved my life. I was 39 at the time and had a really bad headache. I'd only had it for about 10 minutes but it was incredibly painful and kept getting worse. My wife rang NHS Direct and ...
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