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1999-02-11T00:00:00

The government has announced that NHS Direct, the nurse-led telephone helpline, will be rolled out to cover 60 per cent of the country by the end of the year. Health secretary Frank Dobson said the scheme was being expanded faster than originally planned because it had

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