Welcome to the November issue of News Direct, the e-bulletin that keeps you up to date on what's happening at NHS Direct. We hope you will find it interesting and informative. Feel free to email your comments on the e-bulletin to stakeholders@nhsdirect.nhs.uk.
NHS Direct is recruiting sites to pilot Patient Decision Aids for chorionic villus sampling (CVS) or amniocentesis testing, breast cancer surgery choices and Prostate Specific Antigen testing.
NHS Direct plans to increase access to its popular online health and symptom checkers by making them available to partner organisations to use on their own websites.
NHS Direct has appointed Steve Duncan to join the Board as a Non-executive Director, bringing with him experience from a distinguished career leading consumer-facing healthcare and pharmaceutical businesses.
The Health Protection Agency/NHS Direct weekly syndromic surveillance bulletin provides essential information about national and local rises in seasonal illnesses.
NHS Direct has recently started providing the new NHS 111 service for the Nottingham City and Lincolnshire pilots and we will shortly be providing the pilot service for people in Luton.
If you would like more information about any of the articles in this bulletin or are interested in commissioning services from NHS Direct, please contact your NHS Direct regional director.
