Patient Opinion is 10 years old. Wow, a decade, double digits, how time flies. I’m very disappointed I won’t be there for the celebration event and gutted to miss out on the birthday cake. I first came across Patient Opinion back in 2009. Having joined Twitter in late 2008, I was starting to build a […]
I’m on holiday at the moment, enjoying being sporadically connected, but today I found myself lost for words again. A couple of weeks ago I blogged a post about challenging anything NHS and the difficulties of doing so. In it I suggested 7Cs that I think I observe in communications around the NHS: control, construction, centralisation, challenge, […]
Last week there was a little storm brewing in my twitter stream. Patient Opinion, who have been an active participant on social media and have been using it to power good for a number of years, were suddenly inundated with concerns for their future. Tim Kelsey, the National Director for Patients and Information at NHS […]
I wrote a blog post yesterday about the role of troublemakers and radicals in change. It built on this: and even included some thrown together graphics, a little bit inspired by Kirsty Newman’s blogging e.g. Anyhow, if you landed here hoping to find it and/or if you are now interested please pop over to my […]
A couple weeks ago I stumbled across this tweet from @JaneMCummings that shows @HelenBevan speaking at a conference, although I couldn’t tell you which one because her hand covers the hashtag! I missed the conference title, the detail and the context, but the image stuck with me and I kept coming back to it. The […]