Trusted health content for your website

SYNDICATED CONTENT

What is syndication?

• Taking content from an external source and displaying it on your own website

• Styled as if it were your own

• Content updates automatically

What is available?

• Content from 6 key areas

• Comments

• Video and tools

Find ServicesSearch via postcode or location for local NHS Service providers including hospitals, GPs, pharmacies, minor injuries units and walk-in centers and specialist services such as alcohol clinics.

Health A – ZLists over 800 conditions and treatments (including major illnesses and long term conditions), with associated symptoms, diagnosis and other information.

Content

Health News (Behind the Headlines)Behind the Headlines provides guidance on the health topics making the news. It is a repository of news articles, covering a wide range of topics, and aims to investigate the science behind the headlines.

Live WellContains over 100 popular public health topics covering subjects such as holidays, babies, children, diet, fitness, stress, sexual health, beauty and workplace health.

Content

Carers DirectThis is the national information advice service for carers in England, and contains articles, guidance and information on caring for someone.

PlannersThe Planners contain useful information on pregnancy, birth to 5, your health, and NHS healthcheck.

Content

CommentsPatient comments on GPs and hospitals can be accessed and displayed on your own sites, or used to identify trends in feedback for review.

Common Health QuestionsCommon Health Questions offers a way to get quick answers to hundreds of the most common health questions.

Content

There are over 40 interactive clinical and casual tools on NHS Choices to engage people and inform/assess their health and lifestyles.

Interactive Tools

There are over 500 NHS Choices videos to choose from, with 15 new videos produced each month. All videos can be easily added to any website via the ‘Brightcove’ video syndication platform (which is as easy to embed as YouTube).

Videos

How to use the content

Your syndicated NHS Choices content can be contextually grouped to add value to your own portal

NHS Choices

Health information seamlessly

integrated into your own site

Address different demographics with

varied content

Target Public Health areas – use content to

back up campaigns Used as a source of

information for staff on an intranet

Target professional groups (ie nurses, care workers etc)

Benefits

Clear, concise content embedded in your pagesAutomatic update of content

Easy to implement (assuming some technical

knowledge) It’s free...

Coming soon

Updated Find Services feed (including majority of profile info)

Combined video/content tool to embed relevant content onsite

Redesigned feeds, with more content

How to get the content

Register

Receive access to content

Choose and implement content

Implementation

Feeds accessed via

API/webservices

Data returned in .xml

(integrates easily with

existing web data)

Can be implemented in a variety of

ways, both client side and server

side

Feeds can be styled to

match your site’s look and feel

NHS Choices content is available free to our syndication partners to display on their own content portals

To register for NHS Choices Content, please contact:

Matt GeorgeHealth & Local Authority Syndication Managermatt.george@dh.gsi.gov.uk0207 9721538

Alternatively, further service details and an online registration form can be found on our Syndication Management web pages located at www.nhs.uk/aboutNHSChoices/professionals

Next Steps