NHS Direct

NHS Direct is a 24-hour telephone helpline led by National Health Service nurses that offers information and advice to patients and the general public. Its aim is to sift through the 100,000+ health related sites on the internet and recommend those that offer good quality information to the general public. It is an excellent service, and impressively simple to use and understand. Although conservative and conventional in its approach to treatments, it is comforting that the information has NHS approval or backing, and the editorial offers plenty of preventative health advice as well as instructions for what to do when someone has already fallen ill.


The homepage is very easy to navigate and pages on the site are kept short, so it's easy to use if you have a small screen.