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 skills [...]
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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.
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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