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Top Tips-Linkedin for Doctors

Top Tips-Linkedin for Doctors

Linkedin is one of the most powerful tools for professional development that is rarely used by doctors. By having a profile on Linkedin, you strengthen your online presence, and grow your personal and professional networks.   Here’s some tips for how to maximise...

Maxwell Flitton – Inspiring Clinicians Interview

Maxwell Flitton – Inspiring Clinicians Interview

Maxwell Flitton interviewed me for his podcast Inspiring Clinicians, where he interviews clinicians who work in non-traditional clinical roles. Here, Maxwell and I talk about my experience as a Clinical UX Designer and my vision for the future. Maxwell himself is very...

Jeremy Hunt Isn’t The Reason I Left Medicine

Jeremy Hunt Isn’t The Reason I Left Medicine

Doctors leave medicine for many different reasons: They don’t feel valued at work. The work isn’t interesting. They don’t feel good enough. They don’t like the work environment and working conditions. They can’t be themselves. Nowhere on that list will you find the...

The UX-Blog: The Wonderful World of Clinical UX

The UX-Blog: The Wonderful World of Clinical UX

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Nicholas Tenhue from the UX Blog. We talk about my role as a Clinical UX Designer as well as some of my other exploits. Head over the blog post here to find out more where you can download the blog. You can also listen by...

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Jeremy Hunt Isn’t The Reason I Left Medicine

Jeremy Hunt Isn’t The Reason I Left Medicine

Doctors leave medicine for many different reasons: They don’t feel valued at work. The work isn’t interesting. They don’t feel good enough. They don’t like the work environment and working conditions. They can’t be themselves. Nowhere on that list will you find the...

Starting my new job

It’s a Monday morning, the sun is shining, and the fan on my temporary desktop computer is not growling any more. I’m sitting at my desk in our London Bridge offices where I’ve been employed on a 12 month contract as the Enterprise and Technology Fellow for the Health...

I’m a student again!!!

Skinny jeans, hoodies, over-sized glasses. Backpacks, folders haemorrhaging loose sheets of paper, dangly ID badges. I’m surrounded by hundreds, nay thousands of students. And I’m loving it. I’m a student again!!! My first week here at UCL has been an exciting one....

I did it!

So it's official, I am now a newly appointed Non-Clinical Governor for Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT). I found out a few days ago, but it took a while before the computers at work had my name on their desktop wallpaper advertising my new position....

Usability Is Accessibilty

I went to an interesting talk run by Red Badger, a UX Consultancy based in hip and happening Shoreditch.  The title of the event was Web Accessibility: Are you Excluding a Fifth of the UK Population?. It was nice being around so many people who generally cared about...

I just read… Web Form Design

So I've been doing some "light reading" lately, and one of the books that has taught me a lot is Web Form Design by Luke Wroblewsk. It's about 7yrs old, which in IT means near enough a lifetime. But nothing in this book is dated. It's still so relevant to design...

I just read…What specifically do generalists do?

Just found this blog post by Steve Hardy about what it means to be a creative generalists. Never heard about the role before, but it sounds very interesting. The direct link is here http://creativegeneralist.com/2008/02/what-specifically-do-generalists-do/ It is...

Guy’s & St Thomas’ Council of Governors Election 2015

It's election time at Guy's & St Thomas' and I've taken the plunge by running for Non-Clinical Governor.  I never thought that I could apply, but after a very insightful conversation with Bryn Williams and Dr David Treacher (current Staff Governors) back in late...

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