NHS Direct

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5 March 2007

NHS Direct promotes TV advice in magazines

NHS Direct has launched a month-long advertising campaign to make ‘shy young men and mums with children’ aware of their
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27 February 2007

Summary care records planned for end of 2008

Connecting for Health is planning for every patient in England to have a complete Summary Care Record by the end
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21 February 2007

NHS Direct Wales launch new website

NHS Direct Wales have launched a new website, after research indicated that two-thirds of the country use the internet for
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8 February 2007

BMA calls for better OOH information for patients

The BMA has criticised the NHS Direct service for failing to point patients in the right direction for when they
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8 February 2007

Liverpool integrates walk-in centres with PCT database

Liverpool’s walk-in centres are to be electronically linked together to one central database to be viewed and accessed by all
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24 January 2007

Patients to rate care received using new NHS website

The government is to set up a new website to allow patients to publish and share reviews of care recived from GPs
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22 January 2007

BMJ says it will have to charge for BestTreatments

The BMJ Group says the Department of Health’s withdrawl of funding from its award-winning website BestTreatments means it will now probably have to
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19 January 2007

Foul weather friends on hand for COPD patients

NHS Direct, the Met Office and Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Primary Care Trust are collaborating on a new project to
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17 January 2007

Early adopters sought for Health Direct service

The Department of Health (DH) and NHS Direct are looking for primary care trusts interested in being the early adopter
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4 January 2007

Use of NHS Direct website accelerates

NHS Direct’s website had record traffic figures last year, with 13.5m users of the website, an increase of around 30%
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