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nhs 111

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    Sick notes to be automated through NHS 111 to prevent Covid-19 spread

    People with suspected coronavirus will soon be able to have a sick note issued digitally through NHS 111. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a raft of measures in this year’s budget to support the NHS during the spread of Covid-19. Part of the £30 billion package was the automation of sick notes...
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    Dorset NHS 111 service 'under pressure to meet demand'

    Dorset's urgent care service is continuing to struggle to fill key shifts – putting it under pressure to meet demand. Health commissioners say they are hoping for improvements when the South Western Ambulance Service withdraws from the partnership later in the year. Planning is underway, with a...
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    Majority of NHS 111 callers 'placed in call-back queues'

    STAFF manning Oxfordshire’s non-emergency NHS phone line should manage patients’ expectations on when to expect a call back, Healthwatch Oxfordshire has said. According to board papers seen by Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group last month, the NHS 111 service run by South Central...
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    Do you call NHS 111? There's an ambulance for that, concerning figures show

    North East patients who ring the NHS’s non-emergency phone line are more likely to be transferred to an ambulance than anywhere else in the country. A new report from the Nuffield Trust think tank has found the proportion of people who call NHS 111 and are transferred to ambulances has “crept...
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    South West NHS 111 service rated inadequate

    A "consistently failing" NHS patient helpline has been rated inadequate in a "damning" report. Patients requiring emergency care in the South West were left waiting "for long periods", the Care Quality Commission (CQC) found. Inspectors said the 111 service, run by South Western Ambulance...
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    Probe launched into claims NHS 111 helpline staff 'fell asleep while on duty'

    An investigation has been launched after a whistleblower claimed that medics working for the NHS 111 had been so overworked they had fallen asleep while on duty. Sarah Hayes, a former senior call adviser for the helpline in the South West, said she had to speak out as she felt the service was...
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    Hunt puts blame on the success of 111 out-of-hours service

    Their lives were cut short needlessly when doctors and NHS hotline staff failed to spot the illnesses that would kill them. Sam Morrish, three, and Chloe Welch, four, died from sepsis. Sebastian Randle, who was just a baby, succumbed to an infection. Had the tragic lessons of their deaths...
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