NHS Direct

Archive
2 July 2010

Blackburn and NHS Direct pilot wellness

NHS Direct is to pilot its first web and telephone-based support service targeted at patients at risk of developing long
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15 June 2010

NHS Direct pilots home working

NHS Direct is to consider allowing a large number of its staff to work from home, if a pilot shows positive
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10 June 2010

GP leader names his NHS savings

Parts of NHS Direct, the Choose and Book service and the current ‘consent to view’ model of the Summary Care
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4 June 2010

NHS Direct pilots decision aids

NHS Direct is piloting three online decision aids designed to help patients make more informed choices about medical tests and
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21 April 2010

NHS Direct staff sickness ‘unacceptable’

More than one in ten staff at NHS Direct is off sick at any one time, clocking up an average
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23 March 2010

NHS Direct plans to make £20m savings

NHS Direct has announced that it plans to cut its costs by £20m in the next financial year by improving
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16 March 2010

NHS Direct developing online assessments

NHS Direct is working with a consortium of leading IT and health specialist organisations to introduce a new suite of
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23 February 2010

GPs back cuts to NHS Direct and NPfIT

NHS Direct and the National Programme for IT in the NHS are both appropriate targets for cuts in the current economic
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17 February 2010

Action follows disputed Carson report

West Yorkshire primary care trusts have moved to back TPP in the wake of the Carson report, which criticised the
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6 January 2010

NHS Direct has busiest Xmas ever

More than 850,000 people accessed NHS Direct’s telephone and online services over the festive period, making it the helpline’s busiest
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