More serious matters are assessed by a professional and users are subsequently issued with treatment advice or recommended to another branch within the NHS. Initiated in 1997, NHS Direct sites started ...

Labour peer Lord Winston has added to pressure on health ministers by attacking the NHS Direct health phone-line. The eminent fertility doctor, known to millions from his BBC series The Human Body ...

An example is the creation of NHS Direct in 1996. Some of the more recent changes to the organisation of the NHS have included: In 2018 an NHS workforce shortage was announced as there were ...

The First Minister is taking an increasingly hands on approach to the health brief, with Labour saying Health Secretary Neil ...

The draft policy paper also says the health secretary would take more direct control over NHS England. The Department for Health and Social Care said it did not comment on leaks. A spokesman added ...

The prime minister will be setting out "radical" NHS reforms next week as he tries ... Under new plans, patients will be able to get direct referrals for tests and scans from their GP without ...

Over the last 30 years or so, various initiatives have been tried – hospital trusts, GP fund holders, NHS Direct etc – with the aim of reducing costs and making the NHS more efficient.