April 2005
NHS Direct, the Department of Health and Thomson Directories have signed up to continue a pioneering partnership that aims to help people help themselves when faced with health care problems in the home or at work.

From left - Kendall Gordon, Marketing and Strategic Development Director,
Thomson Directories and Bob Gann from NHS Direct

The NHS Direct self-help guide ' Not feeling well?' will, for the second year running, be included in more than 18 m illion Thomson Local directories distributed to homes and businesses throughout England.

The guide includes easy-to-use step by step healthcare advice and information covering more than 25 of the most common adult and child health problems with advice on how to treat symptoms at home where appropriate.

It also contains Department of Health campaign messages such as tobacco education, immunisation and Get the Right Treatment, a campaign that informs people about the range of healthcare options available and how to use local services encourages their appropriate Use.

Comments Kendall Gordon, Thomson Directories' Marketing and Strategic Development Director: "As directory publishers, our role is to connect buyers with sellers so the more useful we can be to our users, the more valuable the directory becomes to our advertisers. The continuing inclusion of the NHS Direct Self Help Guide is great news for our users and complements the other community and lifestyle information the Thomson Local carries.”

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