Connecting for Health has launched a new channel on global video sharing website YouTube.
The channel was launched to coincide with the release of a new DVD for nurses, midwives and allied health practitioners at a national CfH nursing conference last week.
So far the channel features two scripted 8-10 minute films, with parts played by actors.
CfH say the mini dramas demonstrate how new technology will help patients to receive better, safer patient care in future.
The first film tells the story of a patient from being taken ill in the street, to receiving hospital treatment and eventually being cared for at home.
CfH said of the movie: “It has been filmed to demonstrate how staff and patient experience of care will change as National Programme for IT initiatives such as Healthspace, Summary Care Records, mobile clinical devices and PACS are introduced across the country.”
The second film explores questions around how these initiatives actually work in practice. CfH say “The actors step out of role to debate vigorously the benefits and drawbacks.”
The videos also feature CfH clinical leaders answering frequently asked questions about NPfIT.
A CfH spokesperson told EHI the channel was not set up by the agency itself, but the two pieces of film were taken from the DVD and uploaded onto the website by clinicians with permission from the agency.
When EHI viewed the videos on thursday they had received about 400 hits. The top YouTube health video, using NHS as a search term, is ‘The NHS Song – Amateur Transplants’, a satire on the state of the NHS, which has received over a quarter of a million hits.
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