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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

CCGs will be expected to put all NHS Direct’s remaining contracts for NHS 111 out for competitive tender after the provider announced it wanted to withdraw from all its contracts to run the urgent ...