If you need convincing about the benefits of social media then read what our Associate Medical Director Neeraj Bhasin says in the Journal of Surgical Simulation.
He writes frankly from a personal viewpoint about how much he rates Facebook and Twitter describing the latter as " the best platform for the professional individual."
In. a recently published article he says that some of the best learning in now available on social media and it is now the best way of keeping up to date with clinical developments.
Read him here:
http://www.journalsurgicalsimulation.com/contents/volume-4/JSS170008/pdf/
We in CHFT Comms try monitor everything that's being said about us on social media* and, as Neeraj says, Twitter can be so powerful. Here's a few messages we have received recently...
- Andy Holmes @Headvib @CHFTNHS just wanted to say a massive thank you for all the great staff that helped with the birth of our daughter. They were amazing! What a fantastic job our @NHSEngland do!
- Lisa-Marie Wood @lisacharmed Just want to say a huge thank you to all the amazing staff @CHFTNHS for everything they did to make my 4 year olds stay so comfortable. Despite a broken arm and the surgery to repair it, all he has talked about since is the great time we had in hospital. You all do such a fab job
- Simon Mellor @Simon9Hops Massive thanks to @CHFTNHS for the help over the last 48 hours. Second to none!
- Sue @jomica Thanks so much to @CHFTNHS and @YorksAmbulance for your kindness to my my mum today. Despite winter madness you were caring, compassionate and skilled when she was at her most vulnerable. #NHS
- Alan Boothroyd @Alanboothroyd1 Yesterday tea time I called on my Dad. I had to batter the door in. He had collapsed behind the bedroom door. He was in a state. Thankyou to the paramedics & nurses at Huddersfield HRI, where he is comfortable now #SaveHuddsA&E
- William Crossley @RealWCrossley17 A big thank you to the emergency services who came to pick me up over a year ago to transfer me to Huddersfield Royal Infirmany Hospital when my appendix was ready to burst. The nurses caught it in time. #ThankYouAandE