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And here is the news for Monday morning...
https://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/feedback--fdbk/new-tuberculosis-partnership-in-india-/8103684
Vascular, I don't know the relevence of the find. I just pointed out to everyone on this board what I found on the Studiomade website. I don't know how long the reference to '40' CDC sites was on their website but the search engine I used only picked up on it a week or so ago. It's a gamble. Maybe Studiomade took the reference down because it was plain wrong. Maybe they took it down because someone high in Feedback plc asked them to because it has not yet been released as news yet. Take your pick. I try not to pump a share but I feel confident about Feedback so maybe my positivity is just a bit much for other posters. I can take a break from posting here if you and others think it would be beneficial.
On 29th February, Studiomade, the Bleepa website provider had the following posted on their webpage: "Feedback Medical is also involved in supporting and delivering 40 community diagnostic centres (CDCs) across England." I posted that quote on here that same day but it has now disappeared from the Studiomade site and been replaced with the somewhat more bland "Feedback Medical is also involved in supporting and delivering patient pathways for community diagnostic centres (CDCs) across England."
It suggests to me that the '40' previously mentioned had a certain weight and disappeared because it was a truth not to be revealed quite so soon.
Either that or I am delusional and you should ignore me.
"Feedback Medical is also involved in supporting and delivering 40 community diagnostic centres (CDCs) across England."
More details here.
https://studiomade.co/work/bleepa/
Just in case it hasn't been posted before.
https://studiomade.co/work/bleepa/
FEEDBACK PLC - Results and Company Update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYSZDhsRT2k
Revolutionizing UK Private Healthcare: Feedback and MIP Launch Pioneering Bleepa-CareLocker Service
Explore the groundbreaking partnership between Feedback and MIP as they revolutionize private healthcare with the Bleepa-CareLocker service. From streamlined diagnostics to patient-centric care, discover the future of healthcare today.
Imagine a world where your health diagnostics are streamlined, accessible, and integrated seamlessly into your care plan. This isn't a distant future scenario; it's the imminent reality for the UK's private healthcare sector, thanks to a groundbreaking initiative by Feedback and Medical Imaging Partnership (MIP). The Bleepa-CareLocker service is set to transform how diagnostics and patient care are approached, beginning with a direct access prostate screening service. But this is more than just a new service offering; it's a glimpse into the future of healthcare.
More information can be found on the link below.
https://bnnbreaking.com/breaking-news/health/revolutionizing-uk-private-healthcare-feedback-and-mip-launch-pioneering-bleepa-carelocker-service
...has an associate partner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkIbUNrOkr8
The original Digital Health article that prompted Tom Oakley's response.
https://www.digitalhealth.net/2024/02/restricting-doctors-use-of-whatsapp-is-pointless/
An insightful article from Digital Health around the impending end of WhatsApp use by clinicians, however ending the use of WhatsApp isn't pointless it's imperative.
The article is right on a number of fronts; especially that an effective replacement for WhatsApp will need widespread adoption across the NHS and that this will need central coordinated commissioning support from NHS England.
One thing that does need challenging in the article is the focus on preventing government access to clinicians' messages.
Whilst I appreciate the issue more broadly the main concern, in relation to healthcare, is that WhatsApp prevents NHS Trusts from seeing chat content.
When this relates to care decisions for patients it means that the clinical conversation, and the decisions reached, don't form part of the patient record. What's more, messages can be deleted. This makes it impossible for the Trust to meet its CQC obligations to maintain a contemporaneous record for the patient and to meet their legal obligations as a data controller under GDPR. It also makes it very difficult for patients to challenge care decisions when things go wrong or for Doctors to defend themselves in malpractice cases.
Decisions about patient care shouldn't be happening in a vacuum, they must link back to the patient's record. WhatsApp doesn't integrate with EPR and Trusts can't compel the information from the platform. Using it for clinical discussions results in key information being held in siloes on individual clinicians' phones, it potentially leads to multiple versions of the truth and can result in key information being missed by the wider team, conceivably resulting in patient harm. This is why dedicated apps like Bleepa exist, with appropriate levels of security and integration, to protect everyone involved, clinicians, employing Trusts and most importantly patients.
Asynchronous collaboration through chat messages is definitely the way forward, trust me as a clinician myself I know, but we should be using dedicated, appropriately certified and regulated tools and it is the responsibility of NHS leadership to make such tools available, at scale for frontline teams.
Bleepa has been the only fully compliant comms platform available in the UK since its launch in 2019 and we welcome the increasing awareness that clinical colleagues need a viable replacement to WhatsApp, it's why we created the product. Bleepa has resulted in a 74% reduction in referral response time at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, so collaboration through chat definitely works, clinicians just need the right tool.