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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...