PiF Partners
The Patient Information Forum is a not for profit organisation that relies on the support of its members to carry out its work.
PiF Partner membership is a mutually beneficial relationship that enables the Partner member organisation and PiF to grow and develop. PiF Partner membership is a bespoke arrangement that takes account of an organisation's specific needs as well as providing them with a core set of benefits. Any organisation that complements PiF's vision, values and services can apply to become a PiF Partner.
Our Partners are listed here. All of the organisations listed help PiF in a number of ways, by donating their expertise, time and resources as well as supporting us financially.
If you wish to find out more about working with PiF please contact Mark Duman at president@pifonline.org.uk
NHS 24
NHS 24 is a telephone and online based health advice and information service for Scotland.
When GP surgeries are closed it offers out-of-hours clinical assessment by trained and qualified health professionals over the telephone. NHS 24 also provides a health information service making available a wide range of information about illnesses and conditions, treatments, NHS services and other support services, details about health campaigns
and current health issues which can be accessed through three routes:
- website
- e-mail enquiry
- telephoning the national helpline to talk a Health Information Advisor.
National Social Marketing Centre
Social marketing is an adaptable approach, increasingly being used to achieve and sustain behaviour goals on a range of social issues. Its primary aim is to achieve a particular 'social good' (rather than commercial benefit), with clearly defined behavioural goals.
The National Social Marketing Centre (NSMC) is a strategic partnership between the Department of Health in England and Consumer Focus (formerly the National Consumer Council). The centre's mission is to build capacity and skills in social marketing at strategic and operational levels. The Centre also works with people to find ways to address behavioural challenges and assist them to improve the effectiveness of behavioural interventions.
Capita
Capita Health is a fully integrated business division of Capita PLC, the UK’s leading business process outsourcing (BPO) and professional services company. With 600 staff, the Health Division supports its clients with a range of business process, informatics, research and governance skills, to deliver services that either support front-line health care delivery or provide information to improve both effectiveness and efficiency.
Capita Health has expanded significantly in the last two years with growth in two key areas. First, by securing large outsourcing contracts such as NHS Choices (www.nhs.uk), the NHS’s primary public facing website; the Business Services Authority; and the new Information Standard. Second, through the acquisition and development of businesses such as CSKS (health informatics); CRC (health economics); Membership Services (governance to Foundation Trusts); HSP (staff and patient surveys for the NHS); Inventures
(health property advisers); and Health Solutions (occupational health services).
www.capita.co.uk/markets/pages/healthoffering.aspx
NHS Direct
We provide people in England with expert health advice, information and reassurance so that they can care for themselves at home or access appropriate healthcare. Our core service is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by telephone and on the web. We also offer a range of other nationally and locally commissioned services for 70 NHS organisations including out of hours support for GPs and dental services, telephone support for patients with long-term conditions, pre and post operative support for patients, 24 hour response to health scares, and remote clinics via telephone.
We answer around five million calls to our core service each year and around five million patients use our online health and symptom checkers.
www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk
Page last edited: 28 July 2010
