HC Deb 12 July 1999 vol 335 cc30-1W
Mr. Chope

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many calls were made to the NHS Direct phone line in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available. [90957]

Mr. Denham

The information on the number of calls to NHS Direct for each of the last 12 months is shown in the table.

Thousand
Month Calls
1998
June 5.6
July 6.8
August 7.1
September 6.3
October 6.6
November 6.8
December 10.2
Thousand
Month Calls
1999
January 10.9
February 16.5
March 23.7
April 55.0
may 69.4

Source:

NHS Direct site