7 Twitter Resources for Healthcare Professionals, NHS

If you're just getting started on Twitter, here are some resources you may be interested in:

1. 140 uses for twitter by healthcare - a blog post and one of my favourites. A bit old but still up there with challenges for you
2. Using Twitter in the classroom or organisation - nice framework
3. Canadian booklet on Twitter for Healthcare Professionals; short, sweet and to the point. Recommended.
4. How using twitter can help increase staff transparency and trust - one of my blog posts from a while back
5. Twitter for Doctors - by a doctor, with his experience
6. Pull vs Push; a twitter case study - this is my personal 90 day project from when I first started using Twitter. The lessons then are relevant to anyone starting up now.
7. Using Twitter as a social movements strategy; one of my blog posts from March 2009. Some actions to consider.

Do middle managers matter in healthcare improvement?

There are libraries full of research and case studies on how doctors (and increasingly other health professionals) as well as executives, influence the implementation of healthcare improvement and innovation.  Middle managers, the cream in the éclair (often squeezed out) have not been in the headlines. But there is a new paper out which looks at their role and its importance. More research is needed.



Implement Sci. 2012 Apr 3;7(1):28.
Uncovering middle managers' role in healthcare innovation implementation.
Birken SA, Lee SY, Weiner BJ.