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25 March 2015

Calling up a storm

Thomas Meek looks at the troubled history of NHS 111 in the first of a short series of features looking
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19 February 2015

Put GPs on NHS 111 calls – Hakin

Providers of the NHS 111 telephone service should have GPs on hand to provide clinical advice at peak times, according
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21 May 2014

NHS England to spend Ā£33m on 111 tech

NHS England will spend Ā£33m on re-procuring technical elements of NHS 111, a board paper has revealed.
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29 April 2014

Scotland live with 111

Scotland has gone live with NHS 111 as the new contact number for the Scottish health advice helpline NHS 24;
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21 January 2014

HSCIC takes NHS Direct services

The Health and Social Care Information Centre will take over some NHS Direct services, such as online symptom checkers, from
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13 December 2013

Last 111 sites live in February

The last NHS 111 sites are due to go live with the service in February 2014, nearly a year after
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14 November 2013

NHS 111 increased ambulance call-outs

NHS 111 increased the use of ambulances in England during its first year of operation, a new study shows.
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24 October 2013

NHS Direct to close next March

NHS Direct announced today that it will ā€œcease operationsā€ at the end of March 2014 and that its services will
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18 October 2013

NHS 111 procurements on hold

Clinical commissioning groups have been told not to agree any NHS 111 contracts to start before April 2015 while NHS
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3 October 2013

NHS Direct faces uncertain future

Ambulance trusts and GP out-of-hours providers will take over NHS 111 services from NHS Direct by the end of November.
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