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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NHS Direct announced today that it will “cease operations” at the end of March 2014 and that its services will

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

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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