It was with great pleasure that I read the UK government’s “Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS” white paper. It enshrines the principle of patient-controlled medical records with wonderful phrase “nothing about me without me”. 2.1 The Government’s ambition is to achieve healthcare outcomes that are among the best in the world. This can only be [...]
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On Thursday 8th of April, we held an education event at the Royal Society of Medicine. The speakers included Dr Richard Smith, our Chairman, and me, Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli. Richard, as former editor of the British Medical Journal, spoke about the important of and evidence base for using new technology to allow patients to manage [...]
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Demos is one of my favorite think tanks, a left-of-center research institution responsible for many of Tony Blair and New Labour’s policies. Peter Bradwell and his colleagues are running an interesting research project through a series of focus groups with citizens in different parts of the UK. One of the topics is how personal medical [...]
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Today I was a member of a London Business School panel on careers in healthcare. My co-panelists were highly successful professionals from highly successful large companies: AstraZeneca, Bupa and Lilly. I hope we can join their ranks one day. And in the meantime, you can join us at Patients Know Best. We are already have [...]
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Dr Richard Smith, our Chairman, attended HealthCamp UK 2009 and wrote about it in the British Medical Journal: How might we do better at sharing failures? How could online patient feedback be developed in Italy? How could the NHS cut its carbon footprint by 80%? How could patient inserts be improved? How could the undoubted [...]
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Today we held HealthCamp UK 2009 event as part of the Department of Health’s wonderful NHS Innovation Expo and it was a blast. As with the first ever HealthCamp UK, back in 2008, we had wonderful participants who posed fascinating problems. The Twitter feed, #HCUK09, was funny to read through after the event. If you would [...]
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I had a wonderful time at Leeds University’s CPD4 Health Innovation conference on health consumer needs. I learned as much from the people at my table as I did from the ones on the podium. In particular, I am grateful to the people from Connecting from Health who were so generous with their time and [...]
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Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
Dr Richard Smith