Were you watching the Ashes instead of Twitter? Fear not, you’ll be bowled over by our summary of the best of what you might have missed.
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Frozen meets the Incisive Health ambulance. Someone has been having some Lego fun. - Mind your language: the importance of talking about antibiotics in understandable ways.
- A thoughtful blog on the challenges in commissioning telehealth.
- Interesting reflections by Sir David Nicholson on the scale of the NHS funding challenge.
- Pre-operative panic? There’s an app for that. A great example of patient-centred care.
- Phoning it in - a fascinating reflection on being ‘on call.’
- The power of nurses - some thoughts on a recovery from prostate cancer surgery.
- Might your Facebook status tell more about your mental health than you realise?
- How can we better measure hospital productivity?
- How long does it take to think a thought?
- “We told the King of Bhutan that we were living with HIV”.
- Which country is the happiest in the world?
From America:
- A stunning piece by Oliver Sacks as he confronts the end of his own life.
- The USA has an updated National HIV/AIDS Strategy.
- Skinny the cat has lost more than half his body weight.
- Medicare deaths, hospitalisation and costs have reduced.
- What happens when doctors become patients?
And finally...
- If you have the plague, you can’t borrow a library book (which might be the least of your worries).
In an NHS environment that is noisy, changing rapidly and where decision-makers are under intense pressure, policy communications need to be incisive to make an impact. Incisive Health knows how to cut through the noise and competing priorities to deliver results that enhance our clients' businesses and reputations and - ultimately - improve healthcare for patients.