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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

INCREASING demand for the 24-hour helpline NHS Direct is putting pressure on the service a report claims today. INCREASING demand for the 24-hour helpline NHS Direct is putting pressure on the service ...

Exclusive An explosive secret report has raised questions over the future viability of NHS Direct after revealing a catalogue of failures during its rollout of NHS 111. The 86-page confidential review ...

Pioneering work by Brighton-based Communicopia has helped the Department of Health to launch London's first interactive television health service. The NHS Direct Digital pilot service, an extension of ...

Patients in Oxfordshire use NHS Direct less than people in surrounding counties because GPs are failing to promote it, according to the scheme's managers. But one family doctor has claimed GPs have ...

The James Paget issued the following advice for anyone who is concerned about C Diff.Initially, patients can access the NHS Direct website at www.nhsdirect. The James Paget issued the following advice ...

Millions of Britons will soon be able to reach for their remote control and switch onto NHS Direct TV. The digital television channel, which is due to go on air over the summer, will offer health ...