Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
If there?s one thing I?m *really proud Labour *introduced, it?s NHS *Direct.
Our then Health Secretary Frank Dobson identified the need to offer telephone advice and support to the public 24 hours a day. And since *launching in 1998, it has dealt with five million calls a year.
All my family has used it, *including me. In the early hours of Christmas Day 2006, I woke in massive pain. I rang and the qualified nurses correctly diagnosed kidney stones.
Not only does the helpline offer peace of mind it also means NHS resources are used more efficiently, reducing doctor call-outs and *waiting times in accident and emergency.
It saves the NHS ?200million a year and over the Christmas period prevented 5,000 people needlessly going to A&E.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/john-prescott-attacks-andrew-lansley-1531873
Our then Health Secretary Frank Dobson identified the need to offer telephone advice and support to the public 24 hours a day. And since *launching in 1998, it has dealt with five million calls a year.
All my family has used it, *including me. In the early hours of Christmas Day 2006, I woke in massive pain. I rang and the qualified nurses correctly diagnosed kidney stones.
Not only does the helpline offer peace of mind it also means NHS resources are used more efficiently, reducing doctor call-outs and *waiting times in accident and emergency.
It saves the NHS ?200million a year and over the Christmas period prevented 5,000 people needlessly going to A&E.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/john-prescott-attacks-andrew-lansley-1531873