Woodcote Consulting
Health and Care Consulting
Woodcote Consulting, founded in 1996 is a specialist consultancy working in health and care are main areas of expertise are digital health and clinical and forensic psychology.
AREAS OF WORK
Digital Health and Care
Clinical and Forensic Psychology
OUR BLOG
Beyond the Hawking Horizon
The idea that a single shared electronic health record (SSEHR) operating over a wide geography serving many care settings and diverse professional groups is a good idea is one that has some currency in the NHS. However, evidence seems to…
Read MoreA Lost Opportunity?
Slightly of the informatics theme, but then there can’t be a successful health informatics programme, only a health transformation programme facilitated by informatics The current Government’s transformation programme is the most radical in the NHS’s history and we can not…
Read MoreEverything you wanted to know about GP Consortia IT
I organised what I think was the first national GP computing exhibition in 1981 for the GP Computer Suppliers Association (now part of Intellect) it was a sell out and I have been trying to organise another sell out event …
Read MoreKing's Fund Inquiry
The King’s Fund Report on their inquiry into the quality of general practice “Improving the quality of care in general practice” www.kingsfund.org.uk/current_projects/gp_inquiry is worth a read by anybody interested in UK healthcare. Even if it does manage to get the…
Read MoreEPS and the Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions
I first worked on the forerunner of what we now call EPS (the Electronic Prescription Service) in 1986, when I wrote an evaluation of a project to using a memory card to transfer prescriptions from GP practices to pharmacy for…
Read MoreLife without a Moblie Phone
Both my adult children have recently had their phones stolen. Both were bereft. This lead to the following email to my son with some reflections on life without a mobile phone. Hi Silas, How are you finding life without a…
Read MoreEnglish GP Systems Market
I’ve been looking at some statistics on the GP market in England which may be of interest. Recent years have seen a considerable consolidation in the market and although there were never the number of suppliers that some of the…
Read MoreTonsillitis Pen V
What you might have seen in a GP record circa 1980, if you could have read the handwriting! Early GP computing was fighting the hardware. How could we get 6000 patient records on a pair of 8 inch floppy disks…
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