What evidence is there that blogging is a useful tool in healthcare?

That was a question posed by some of our NHS local bloggers who came to a workshop in Birmingham earlier today. It is, of course, an entirely valid question.

I have just read a news item in my RCM journal about midwives on bicycles.  Apparently, a community team in East London has aquired two bikes to enhance their service as the midwives are fed up with getting stuck in traffic and the difficulties of parking.  How exciting is that?

I don’t know why, but the time I most commonly encounter this problem is on public transport. I see someone who has signs of illness and wonder, as a GP, whether I should say something.

When PTCs are abolished and replaced by GP-led NHS services - what is going to happen to all the existing relationships between PCTs and the public?

Over the years, and sometime at great cost, ties have been built up both formally and informally between PCTs and the community though patient groups, carers' groups, enthusiastic passionate NHS representatives and community members.