White Paper is a comprehensive Government wide public health strategy for England. The strategy aims to prevent up to 300,000 untimely and unnecessary deaths by the year 2010. This website provides information on all aspects of the OHN health strategy and is regularly updated, so you may want to bookmark this site in your 'favorites' so you can easily return to familiarise yourself with its contents. This site is specifically designed to cover the health strategy and so if you are more interested in particular NHS health services or a particular health condition, you may instead want to visit the following sites which should be able to provide you with the information you want. This health advice and information telephone helpline is staffed by fully qualified NHS nurses and is available 24 hours a day every day.
All calls are confidential, charged at local rates and are recorded for patients' safety.
The helpline is nationally available throughout England and Wales. The telephone number for NHS Direct is 0845 4647. The NHS Direct On-line is the internet arm of NHS Direct and was launched in December 1999. It contains an interactive healthcare guide, general information about NHS Direct, information on current health issues and recent health-related announcements, as well as links to other organisations' websites for further more detailed information on specific issues. You will also find a brief summary of OHN highlighting its key features.