Chris SubbeMay 23, 20181 minTop 3 lessons learnt from healthcare improvers worldwide: the International Forum 2018Digested read of a BIG conference! And don’t forget to follow Sara Riggare on Twitter! NIHR CLAHRC Northwest London Blog The Internationa...
Chris SubbeMay 21, 20183 minCan the ‘third man’ of healthcare improvement emerge from the shadows?‘For all the talk about quality healthcare, systems performance has frozen in time. Only 50-60% of care has been delivered in line with l...
Chris SubbeMay 6, 20182 minHow do we answer the questions that matter to patients ?Amsterdam, International Quality Forum 2018, 2nd of May: The question above was the challenge that we were given for a panel discussion a...
Chris SubbeOct 5, 20174 minThe Government could solve the NHS staffing crisis – there are lots of people who would love to helpWith the party conference season in full swing staffing levels are back on the agenda with discussions to remove the cap on salary increa...
Chris SubbeAug 24, 20171 minPatients’ online access to Electronic Health Records – current status and experiences from the impleLearning from Sweden: Maria Hägglund blogg from #medinfo2017. Directions for others to follow! Source: Patients’ online access to Elect...
Chris SubbeAug 23, 20171 minSay it with data ….Mark Wardle is a fellow clinician with an interest in the usage of information technology to improve care and patient experience. Here is...
Chris SubbeAug 17, 20171 minNursing documentation: Mind the gap?Thanks for sharing the insights: documentation systems clearly need help, as need the teams that fill them and the patients that they rep...
Chris SubbeAug 10, 20174 minSorry guys: all doctors have to resit their exams!MRCP time: the toughest questions on the planet, drawn from a large pool of knowledge from all aspects of medicine. Randomised in order, ...
Chris SubbeJul 23, 20173 minFroome vs Messi: What types of teamwork suits patients and where does technology fit?Chris Froome has done it again. The fourth win of the Tour de France (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/40695072). Well done! Many of ...
Chris SubbeJul 17, 20174 minUnderstanding acute illness vs counting Andy Murray: it’s not Cricket!I am not sure whether you have followed the tennis last week? Intriguing sport. Andy Murray (http://www.andymurray.com/) beaten by his ow...
Chris SubbeJul 7, 20173 min“The only game you don’t want to score in!” – It might be NEWS to you but itWe are preparing the first OSCE for our first cohort of Physician Associates (https://www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/physician-ass...
Chris SubbeJun 29, 20171 minToward a New Definition of Primary Care: Primary care 3.0Jay Parkinson thinking loud about our relation to ‘our’ Primary Care Physician’: is this age specific? Jay Parkinson MD, MPH For the last...
Chris SubbeJun 26, 20174 minWho’s data is it anyway? The journey from buying to selling your own health care data …Patients have a lot to offer. Not least to researchers. Research data is big business these days. Anonymised data from large numbers of p...
Chris SubbeJun 13, 20173 minIt is about choiceSunday 8:30 in the Emergency Department: a young man has been admitted with a syncopal event, possibly a seizure. It turns out that he st...
Chris SubbeMay 30, 20172 minDeep dive into patient safety: Communicating under water …?The water-sports season on Anglesey has firmly restarted and people are on their way to the beaches of Ynys Mon to take their boards and ...
Chris SubbeMay 26, 20174 minWould you call your doctor (while you are in hospital)?When my friend John’s daughter was admitted to hospital with nausea and vomiting late in her pregnancy she was not particularly worried. ...
Chris SubbeMay 14, 20173 minKids can do it! Paediatrics leading the way in documenting critical informationChicago airport 19:00. The flight back to Manchester is delayed by an hour. And then another one. And then three more. Reason: the plane ...
Chris SubbeMay 6, 20173 minSweden might be onto something …I spent Thursday and Friday this week in Cardiff at the amazing Society for Acute Medicine’s Conference (https://twitter.com/csubbe/statu...
Chris SubbeMay 3, 20172 minPatient Power on the international stageBack from a hectic week in London with the Health Foundation and its international fellows. First time at the International Forum (http:/...
Chris SubbeApr 23, 20173 minPatient safety: taking the piss. Literally!A brilliant day at Pontio on Friday (https://www.bangor.ac.uk/about/pontio/pontio-innovation.php.en): rather quiet with most of the stude...