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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Delivering modern and responsive public services requires informed innovation drawing on a combination of design, planning and evaluative skills. The development of the national 24-hour telephone ...

Nurses working for NHS Direct have lodged a collective grievance after being told they will have to work more weekends in a bid to improve the organisation’s performance. About 80, mostly band 6, ...

NHS Direct helps take pressure off GPs and A&E units, according to independent research. Subscribe today to access over 6,000 peer-reviewed clinical articles, exclusive learning units, step-by-step ...

According to health union Unison nearly 7,000 job losses have now been announced across the NHS - with more to come. They include a 1,000 posts at NHS Direct and North Staffs University Hospital Trust ...

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (1979-), Vol. 71, No. 9 (September 2017), pp. 849-856 (8 pages) Background In the UK, National Health Service Direct Wales (NHSDW) uses computerised ...