# Directory of services

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{{Short description|Electronic database}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}A '''Directory of Services''' is an electronic database of services held with details of the service offered.

==National Health Service==
A clinical directory of services can be used in conjunction with a [clinical decision support system](/source/clinical_decision_support_system).

In the English National Health Service, a directory has been compiled by every [clinical commissioning group](/source/clinical_commissioning_group). NHS trusts, local authorities, voluntary and commercial organisations all provide information for these directories. The Directory is held centrally by the [NHS Digital](/source/NHS_Digital). It provides  real-time information about services available to support patients.  Pharmacy contractors are obliged to update their entries where the pharmacy’s opening hours change, either temporarily or permanently.<ref>{{cite news |title=Directory of Services |url=https://psnc.org.uk/digital-and-technology/databases-of-pharmacies-and-services/directory-of-services-dos/ |access-date=13 November 2022 |publisher=Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee |date=2022}}</ref>

The directory is used by:

*[NHS 111](/source/NHS_111) 
*[Choose and Book](/source/Choose_and_Book)
*[NHS Pathways](/source/NHS_Pathways)
*[NHS Choices](/source/NHS_Choices)

In 2005 Peter Davies a former NHS head of communications set up a scheme enabling [primary care trust](/source/primary_care_trust)s to provide directory-type information in the [Yellow Pages](/source/Yellow_Pages) directory. By setting up a national agreement with Yellow Pages he hoped to keep costs down and solve the problem of PCT patches crossing different regional editions of the directory.<ref>{{cite news|title=Comms expert brings NHS services to Yellow Pages|url=http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/comms-expert-brings-nhs-services-to-yellow-pages/16454.article#.VDlbXjbGBJ0|accessdate=11 October 2014|publisher=Health Service Journal|date=13 October 2005}}</ref>

==Egypt==
''Managing Quality in Egypt: A Directory of Services for SMEs'' was launched in Cairo in March 2017 intended to assist [small and medium-sized enterprises](/source/small_and_medium-sized_enterprises) in developing countries to find national institutions to help them meet safety and technical standards necessary which they must meet in foreign markets.  It has been created by the [Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality](/source/Egyptian_Organization_for_Standardization_and_Quality), the [Engineering Export Council of Egypt](/source/Engineering_Export_Council_of_Egypt), the [Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt](/source/Physikalisch-Technische_Bundesanstalt) and the [International Trade Centre](/source/International_Trade_Centre).<ref>{{cite news|title=Egypt: Managing Quality in Egypt - a Directory of Services for SMEs|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201703300679.html|accessdate=22 April 2017|publisher=All Africa|date=29 March 2017}}</ref>

==References==
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Category:National Health Service (England)
Category:Government services web portals in the United Kingdom

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