Syndication allows you to take content from NHS Choices and embed it into your own site, providing you with up-to-date trusted health information free of charge.
What’s available?
You can choose content from different areas of the site depending on your needs. Syndication is currently available for:
- Health A-Z
This section provides information and advice on more than 800 conditions and treatments in an easy and comprehensive way. Top doctors and health professionals share their knowledge and advice while patients give an insight into coping with particular conditions and treatments.
- Live Well
A lifestyle section that provides guides, tips and high-quality information on how to live a healthier life. Covering around 110 broad topic areas, there's always something new to find, with articles, videos and interactive tools being continually added.
- Find and choose services
Find telephone numbers and full details for all the health services in England – everything from GPs and dentists to carers services and gyms. There are around 50 national directories you can search by simply entering a postcode, address or organisation.
- Comments
Patient feedback allows members of the public to post comments about their experience with individual NHS service providers. If you are the service provider, you can post a reply to each comment.
- Carers Direct
Carers Direct is a support service for the 5 million people in England who look after someone else. The site is full of information covering all aspects of caring, including advice and support, benefits, local services and more.
- Planners
Access to a range of targeted information, including birth to 5, pregnancy or vaccinations.
- Behind the Headlines
Provides an unbiased and evidence-based daily analysis of the science behind health stories that make the news.
- Common health questions
Answers to topical and frequently asked health questions.
- Tools
Try over 40 interactive tools including symptom checkers, quizzes, calculators and information features. Embedding tools is simple, although access to your website structure is required.
- Videos
Access more than 500 videos. The videos are also available as hard copy media, allowing you to play them in your waiting room. Videos can be embedded in to your site as easy as embedding a YouTube video, simply choose your videos and player, and we send you the code to add to your website.
For further information, please see our syndication tools and syndication videos pages.
Articles
The written content itself requires some degree of technical know-how in order to embed it into your own website. If you use a content management system, or have someone who builds your website, you may be able to integrate using these methods. Many web developers have the knowledge to be able to build the content into your site, and the process is not especially time-consuming or difficult (assuming that the technical bits and pieces are understood).
How to register
To get access to NHS Choices syndicated content, simple fill in the registration provided under the heading Register as organisation.
Once you’ve filled in the registration details, you gain access to the content. Choose videos from http://bit.ly/syndvids, tools from http://bit.ly/syndtools, and the content itself through http://v1.syndication.nhschoices.nhs.uk/?apikey=xxx (replacing the ‘xxx’ with the API key sent to you on registration). You’ll now need to embed the content.
If you are non-technical, or don’t have access to a technical resource, videos and tools are an easy option to start with. Or you could try the find services widget, which you can embed into your site just like the videos. This widget will allow your patients to search for NHS services in England from your website.
We are currently looking to provide the same type of easy access across the other NHS Choices syndication topics. If you would like to know more, please email nhssyndication@dh.gsi.gov.uk for details.
Examples of NHS Choices syndicated content
