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June 20, 2006

Patient Opinion is a New Media Awards 2006 finalist

We’ve just heard that Patient Opinion is a finalist in the New Statesman’s New Media Awards 2006. We’re up against four other sites (including the Guardian’s new blog) under the “contribution to civic society” heading. So we are really excited!

Of course, if we are honest we have to admit that we haven’t actually made very much of a contribution to civic society yet. It’s more of a potential contribution.

But the potential is absolutely huge!

Just think. The population of England clocks up about 11 million inpatient stays and 44 million outpatient attendances in NHS hospitals each year.

Even if patients posted their opinions and ratings on the Patient Opinion web site in just a tenth of one percent of these encounters, that would be 55,000 individual items of feedback to help improve local services and inform patient choices.

And that really would be a contribution to civic society.

Posted by James at June 20, 2006 9:04 PM