Power to the people
Dr Paul Hodgkin, the founder of Patient Opinion, joins eHealth Insider as a columnist, and advises the NHS to prepare for a real information revolution.
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EHI Live interview: Paul Hodgkin
Chris Thorne talks to the founder and chief executive of Patient Opinion, who has played an increasingly influential role in the choice and Open Data agendas.
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Patient Opinion to cover social care
Patient Opinion is to receive government funding to become the official site for patient feedback on social care services.
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Info revolution ‘needs social media’
The Department of Health’s plans for an Information Revolution place too little emphasis on input by patients and use of social media, a patient feedback site has argued.
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Dentists to learn the painful tooth
Dentists have become the latest group of healthcare professionals to be subject to ratings from their patients.
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Patient Opinion now Looking Local
Patient Opinion has formed a partnership with Looking Local to allow people to use its feedback service even if they do not have internet access. Traditionally, Patient Opinion has used its website to allow users to provide feedback on local health services and then routed their stories to people within the NHS who can make […]
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EHI Live 2010 for primary care
Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, author of an independent evaluation of the Summary Care Record and HealthSpace, will be one of the speakers at eHealth Insider Live 2010. In what promises to be a fascinating speech on Monday 8 November, she will outline what it meant to be an independent evaluator of two controversial NHS IT programmes […]
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Patient Opinion opened to MPs
Patient Opinion, the website that allows patients to post comments about the health services they have used, has set up a new service for Westminster MPs.
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Sites link up for mental health ratings
The patient feedback site Patient Opinion has linked up with NHS Choices to enable patients to comment online on mental health services. The partnership between the Department of Health’s flagship website and Patient Opinion is due to be launched today by care services minister Phil Hope. The DH said the partnership means service users, carers […]
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Patient Opinion mashes up NHS Choices
Patient Opinion has announced a “mash-up” with NHS Choices comments released onto a Cabinet Office website to promote new uses of government information. The independent website, which was founded by a Sheffield GP and is funded by subscriptions from trusts, regulators and others, has taken an NHS Choices data feed from a site run by […]
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