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What if users’ reviews of care homes were available online?

What if users’ reviews of care homes were available online?

By Geraldine Bedell on 7 July, 2010

In the four years since Patient Opinion launched with the proposition that ‘your story can change the NHS,’ its website has become an indispensable arm of the health service. With 400 opinions posted a month and half a million page views, it’s the fastest, most effective way to register a complaint or offer praise. Patient [...]

Posted in Blog, Health & Social Care | Tagged care homes, hospitals, Jeremy Kyle, Kate Ebbutt, NHS, Patient Opinion | 5 Responses

When is a radio not a radio? When it tells people how you’re feeling

When is a radio not a radio? When it tells people how you’re feeling

By Geraldine Bedell on 2 July, 2010

It looks like a radio. (A rather nice one.) It plays radio stations. But this is not just a radio, this is a Buddy radio – the latest idea in social networking, designed to connect people who are frail and vulnerable to those who care about them. I heard about Buddy from the dynamic Adil [...]

Posted in Blog, Design, Health & Social Care, Technology | Tagged A Better Old Age, Adil Abrar, Braun, Buddy, Dieter Rams, Facebook, mental health, Nesta, Patient Opinion, Sidekick Studios, telehealth, twitter | 3 Responses

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