NHS patients should be able to write up their own medical records – and not have to rely on Post-it notes | Will Parman The lack of a unified digital repository for patients and healthcare workers means that key medical changes are often missed. But the NHS can learn from US intelligence sharing, says Emerging Voices w...

Well worth a read.

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Lady Antonia Laser?

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

Ohhh, I’d missed the scollps 🤣

Actually the paper menu says 89p so they must just have used a random number generator.

I fear the winner may have been gravity.

A chip shop menu board advertising cockles and muscles (sic).

“Aliiive, alive-o…”

Plans for gaudy Trump presidential library in Miami spark ridicule Video posted on social media depicts a rendering of the proposed 50-storey gargantuan structure decked in gold

Shelf after shelf of ‘The Art of the Deal’…

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Ask patients about gambling like drinking and smoking, GPs urged In a report after the death of a betting addict, a coroner calls for routine questions about gambling to encourage earlier treatment

Desperately sad case reported here: www.thetimes.com/article/b90d...
The coroner agrees with people who spoke up about their experiences and those of their loved ones in this report from Healthwatch Hertfordshire and the county public health team: www.healthwatchhertfordshire.co.uk/news/2024-07...

1 [Nurse talking to camera] This is usually our busiest time of year at the centre 2 [Show a sign outside a medical institution reading:] Centre for Adults Who Still Can’t Get Their Heads Round Daylight Savings 3 NURSE: We have a spike in admissions when BST starts 4 CONFUSED PATIENT BEING LAID DOWN BY NURSES: Is it forward or back? NURSE: Lie down love 5 We often see the same patients ever year PATIENT: So it’s like… time travel? DOCTOR: No 6 Every year we try to explain BST to them in a fun and memorable way [The patients are sat around a fun show, with people dressed in bunny suits jumping around a giant clock] BUNNY: And now I *spring forward*... 7 [Bunny springs forward one hour on clock] 8 PATIENT WATCHING SHOW: I don’t get it 9 The hardest patients are the Summer Time refusers 10 PATIENT [sat strapped to a chair as a doctor talks to him through a screen, through a tannoy] PATIENT: But why is it better? DOCTOR [talking through microphone]: Because it complicates things. 11 PATIENT: How is that good? DOCTOR: It makes you more tired. 12 DOCTOR [to assistant]: Fetch the cattle prod [Ends]

I think the clocks in UK go back tonight. Or forward. Not sure. Is it forward

Knowledge is power. There’s plenty in today’s King’s Fund patient voice report. Today’s The King's Fund report on learning from Healthwatch deserves not just to be read but to be acted upon. As someone who’s worked at Healthwatch England, then partnered with it in the voluntary s...

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I find this triggering as it reminds me of the day (before your time) when the heel came unstuck from the upper of my right shoe in the middle of the office and I spent the rest of the day clumping around on a wodge of sellotape. But at least that wasn’t a pathetic attempt to impress the boss.

A blue cartoon man holding up a calculator saying "Look at the sum my calculator did!" The calculator shows the number four. There is a pile of used batteries on the ground.

People posting ai images

Ministerial statement today on more dental training places, speedier conversion for overseas-qualified dentists, the previously announced interim changes to the NHS dental contract and increases to dental charges.

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‘I was mesmerised by Kate Bush and the Smurfs, so I had great taste’: Diane Morgan’s honest playlist The Philomena Cunk star’s life was changed by the Fall and she knows a Spitting Image song inside out. But which haunting banger does she say is the best ever?

Would not have predicted Diane Morgan and I have the same answer to the question about the first record we ever bought. Lala lalalalalalalala, lala lalalalalalalala, lala lalalalalalalala lalalaaaaaaaaa.
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Terry Scott, a middle-aged man in a very 1970s jacket, gestures at a gap over a river, with a rueful expression on his face

Did you know, 52 years ago tonight, Terry Scott drove off the end of the Tees Transporter Bridge? 🧵

This looks really interesting and it’s got me thinking about how other kinds of organisation besides governments might usefully adopt some of the principles to deal with their parallel challenges.

Well, I think what we can take from this result is that it somehow proves everyone right about whatever they thought the result would be.

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

Probably got the egg with the Green Shield stamps from buying the watch 🧠

Police on a Fabergé egg hunt after pickpocket strikes at West End pub The thief admitted sidling up to a drinks executive and lifting her handbag, which contained the Romanov-style treasure and a £2m watch. They are still missing

There but for the grace of God… I mean, who hasn’t taken their Fabergé egg and £2 million watch down the boozer?

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Grant Hardie when he knows he’s played a blinder of a shot… #curling

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Just read a comment on my local newspaper’s website decrying “Neigh Sayers” and that’s set me up nicely for the day.

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‘Hope and relief’ as seaside town’s last youth centre saved Charity praises effort to stop Ramsgate’s Pie Factory Music closing but calls for more youth services in coastal towns

Really needed to see a good news story at this point in this particular week…

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3/3. I’m increasingly glad that Healthwatch Hertfordshire has decided to carry on doing what we do best during the uncertainty, keep all of our options in play and focus on helping our system partners think about and shape the future. This ride isn’t going to get any less interesting…

2/3. First Ian Dodge, who’s led on numerous pieces of legislation in his time, argued that time pressure means they’ll have to ditch them to save the central proposals in the Bill. Now former minister Lord Hunt says the Lords will want a continuing independent voice for people using health services.

Health Bill won’t survive the Lords intact, says ex-minister A former Labour minister has predicted government will have to retreat on its planned abolition of Healthwatch, and described its approach to the NHS as "command and control from the Department of Hea...

Interesting to see that the HSJ podcast has now twice featured experts highlighting the challenge the Government will face in attempting to get the forthcoming Health Bill through Parliament if it includes its current plans concerning Healthwatch. 1/3.

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‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests

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Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation finds

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