National Health Service (NHS)

NHS Choices

NHS Choices is the online 'front door' to the NHS. It is the country's biggest health website and gives all the information you need to make choices about your health..

The service is intended to help you make choices about your health, from lifestyle decisions about things like smoking, drinking and exercise, through to the practical aspects of finding and using NHS services when you need them.

The NHS choices website contains the following sections which you may find useful:

• Carers Direct
• Compare hospitals
• Find and choose services
• Get your own account
• Health A-Z
• Live Well
• Medical advice now
• NHS Choices mobile
• NHS Talk
• The NHS in England
• Videos, multimedia tools and links

NHS Direct

For health advice and reassurance 24 hours a day 365 days a year use NHS Direct 0845 4647

NHS Direct is not just a telephone and online healthline. NHS Direct services also include:

• Out of hours support for GPs and Dental services
• Telephone support for patients with long-term conditions
• Pre and post operative support for patients
• 24 hour response to health scares
• and remote clinics over the phone