I was pleased (and honoured) to see this blog listed in the Guardian Higher Education Technology Blog List (snapshot below), next to blogs such as Professor Jim Al-Khalili’s blog and UK Web Focus.

After spending the past month attempting to recruit GPs to take part in an interview study, I’m kind of running out patience.

Source: The Guardian Website

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There is vast amount of literature that highlights and studies the presence and increase in violence and aggression in A&E departments (or ED), all across the world (e.g. UK, USA, Israel, Iran, Turkey & Australia). The impact of violence and aggression on A&E staff has been recorded very widely too. There is limited amount of reference/studies of the impact this violence and aggression has on the patient being violent and other patients using the A&E department at the same time. Interventions to reduce violence and aggression have also been documented in literature. However, references to environmental interventions such as design were found in only a handful of documents, and none of them established through research the impact of environmental interventions on violence and aggression in A&E.

Yesterday I presented a talk ‘An overview of Healthcare apps in the UK’ at the Medical Apps Seminar organised by the British Computer Society (BCS).

The DoH has the potential to engage with many millions of people.