A Directory of Services is an electronic database of services held with details of the service offered.
A clinical directory of services can be used in conjunction with a Clinical decision support system.
In the English National Health Service a directory has been compiled by every 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 Health and Social Care Information Centre.
The Directory is used by:
In 2005 Peter Davies a former NHS head of communications set up a scheme enabling Primary Care Trusts to provide directory type information in the 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.