Following last week’s post on which health service heads are on Twitter, the obvious next question is, what do NHS bosses talk about on the service? Continue reading “What do NHS bosses talk about on Twitter?”
Category: Healthcare
Dr Mark Newbold: a rare NHS boss on Twitter
In Health Service Journal’s recent online Twitter chat, NHS consultant anaesthetist Dr Suparna Das tweeted about what a great leveller Twitter is (replying to Joe McCrea of Cogitamus Health Practice):
@joemccrea1966 Agree. But Twitter get’s rid of hierarchies. Nowhere else can I contact a CEO or a Editor or even Obama directly#hsjtwitchat— Dr Suparna Das (@DrSuparnaDas) August 9, 2012 Continue reading “Dr Mark Newbold: a rare NHS boss on Twitter”
London 2012: NHS confirmed as national religion
To summarise the history of Britain for those who missed last night’s Olympic opening ceremony: the island shire is populated by sheep, ducks and happy peasants inventing cricket, when Isambard Kingdom Brunel kicks off the industrial revolution, forging five rings to rule over all. The peasants protest, winning democracy, equal rights for women (such as to compete in the Olympics) and men (to wear brightly coloured Sergeant Pepper uniforms).
Then the heroic, jiving medical professionals (played by themselves, including 37 from Guy’s and St Thomas – some pictured below – more from Barts Health, pictured a bit further down, yet more from London Ambulance and around 50 from UCLH)* form Great Ormond Street Hospital (which itself contributed three staff and nine patients – pictured further down again in front of the Olympic stadium) and the NHS to look after Britain’s children, and get reinforcement fictional childcare professionals flown in by umbrella to thwart Voldemort and the Child Catcher. Job done, so the Queen and James Bond drop in and everyone watches some films and dances to the Arctic Monkeys. Continue reading “London 2012: NHS confirmed as national religion”
Technology can transform the NHS – but not on its own
The health secretary believes technology can help change the health service. The NHS Confederation conference heard how a Bradford GP surgery is taking a lead
Reports on technology from NHS Confederation 2012, including health secretary Andrew Lansley and pioneering Bradford GP Dr Shahid Ali. I blogged about the conference less seriously here. Continue reading “Technology can transform the NHS – but not on its own”
#Confed2012 on Twitter: NHS Confederation’s Twixploitation of Twanter
Rather unfairly, on Friday lunchtime at last week’s NHS Confederation annual conference in a rainy Manchester, I tweeted David Williams of Health Service Journal to suggest that the only place #Confed2012 was trending on the personalised panels of people at Confed2012. [See footnote 1] Half the people in the press office had already seen the conference’s hashtag in the list and voiced the same assumption, before realising that Twitter shows a personalised trending list by default – the difference was that David had tweeted the first before getting to the second. Continue reading “#Confed2012 on Twitter: NHS Confederation’s Twixploitation of Twanter”