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111 is a free-to-call single non-emergency number medical helpline operating in England, Scotland and Wales. The 111 phone service has replaced the various non-geographic 0845 rate numbers and is part of each country's National Health Service: in England the service is known as NHS 111; [1] in Scotland, NHS 24; [2] and in Wales, NHS 111 Wales.
111: 112 [92] New Caledonia: 112: Police – 17; Ambulance – 15; Fire – 18. New Zealand: 111: SMS messages can be sent to 111 from registered mobile phones. Traffic – *555 (mobile phones only). 112 and 911 redirect to 111 on mobile phones. [96] Dialing 000 and 999 plays a pre-recorded message advising the caller to call 111. Crime ...
111 (usually pronounced one-one-one) is the emergency telephone number in New Zealand. It was first implemented in Masterton and Carterton on 29 September 1958, and was progressively rolled out nationwide with the last exchanges converting in 1988.
NHS 111 will now offer mental health support to people of all ages in crisis, including children. ... Local health systems previously had their own separate phone lines, which took about 200,000 ...
The National Health Service (NHS) can be reached on 111 for non-emergency calls (from landlines and mobiles only). In other European countries, the number 116 117 is used for a similar purpose. The NHS has also launched a COVID-19 helpline on 119 so that these calls do not go through the 111 call centre.
In Scotland, the NHS24 service moved from 0845 424 2424 to 111 on 29 April 2014. [25] [26] NHS 111 Wales (formally NHS Direct Wales) can now be accessed through the 111 number. [27] It previously used 0845 46 47 but the rollout of 111 was completed, [27] following trials starting in 2016 [28]
A study by the National Audit Office in July 2014 of people in England found that the urgent care system is complex and many people do not know how to contact out-of-hours GP services or even that such services exist; [10] that 26% had not heard of out-of-hours GP services, and 19% had not heard of NHS 111. [11]
The emergency number 999 was adopted in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1959 at the urging of Stephen Juba, mayor of Winnipeg at the time. [4] The city changed the number to 911 in 1972, in order to be consistent with the newly adopted U.S. emergency number. [5] Several other countries besides the UK have adopted 999 as their emergency number.