What might you have missed on Twitter? Read our summary of interesting things we’ve noticed in the past seven days.
- Twitter was, well, all a twitter about @MichaelEPorter speaking at #reformMEP. Here are his slides.
- Is workforce planning a zero sum game? @JonNHSNorwich thinks so and is concerned about the impact that mandatory staffing ratios could have on new models of care.
- Our own @BillMorgan82 returned to the issue of competition in the Health Service Journal, arguing that debate about the OFT is a sideshow.
- An update on the ‘Treasury view’ – or at least John Rentoul’s summary of Sir Nick Macpherson’s view of it.
- This is a moving interview with Eric Ollerenshaw MP on his partner’s death from pancreatic cancer.
- The story of how a contagious dog cancer went global.
- The Wellcome Trust is putting its library of medical cartoons online.
- Is #YODO the new #YOLO? A BBC piece on why people are using a Twitter hashtag to discuss their end of life care wishes.
- Two different perspectives on the power of big data - @GeraintLewis on care.data and @JoBrodie on dangers of jigsaw identification.
And in America:
- Help mark 50th birthday of @ASCO by voting on your top five advances against cancer.
- The Commonwealth Fund data centre is a great resource for comparing the performance of different US health systems.
- The quest for efficiency in America. A fascinating New York Times article on the drivers of cost variation in dermatology.
- Is it okay to fire my oncologist? A revealing example from America of the impact of non-patient-centred care and how one patient addressed it.
- An interesting summary of the state of play on plans for single-payor healthcare Vermont style.
And finally:
- The new evidence-based hierarchy... and here is the social media element of it explained.
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