NHS Direct has identified the most common winter health problems and developed a range of online health and symptom checkers to help people get advice quickly and easily over the Christmas period.
NHS Direct is looking to recruit a significant number of band 5 nurses after a positive response to the introduction of this group alongside its existing band 6 nursing workforce.
Our online health and symptom checkers won the ‘Excellence in Major Healthcare IT Development' award for their significant benefit to patient care by providing better choice and access to healthcare.
Patients are being given the tools to help them make informed decisions about their treatments and to encourage a shared decision making process between them and their clinicians.
NHS Direct is encouraging people to use its ‘bites and stings’ health and symptom checker as the latest call volumes show more people this year are turning to the service for advice on this topic.
NHS Direct has published its business plan for the next five years, outlining an ambitious vision and strategy to compete to deliver remote and virtual healthcare in the new NHS landscape.
With the Easter bank holidays coming up, NHS Direct is encouraging patients to use its online health and symptom checkers to get instant health assessments and advice.
Hay fever season is almost here. In preparation we've developed a new online tool to help people tackle the symptoms that can make spring and summer miserable.
Our telephone and web services were used over 830,000 times over the festive period, with over half of those numbers coming from the online health and symptom checkers.