Doctors.net.uk

Doctors.net.uk

Doctors.net.uk is an online network for doctors in the UK and one of the first of any networking sites to be introduced on the web.

Founded by Dr. Neil Bacon [1] in 1998, the site offers a number of Web 2.0 features which allows doctors to communicate online – including email, an interactive forum, online training, e-learning, medical podcasts and access to an online medical textbook and medical image library [2].

Access is only granted to UK registered doctors and medical students, and it claims to have a membership of more than 160,000 doctors – more than 95% of all UK doctors.

More than 30,000 UK doctors log onto the site every day using its email, forums and professional development services.

The company is funded by allowing communication from private companies (such as pharmaceutical companies) and government bodies (such as the NHS and Department of Health) to its members.

On the commercial side, it provides communication campaigns for pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, the Department of Health and other public sector organisations and medical colleges, providing them with effective access to doctors for marketing, education, training and market research.

The company, based in Milton Park, Oxfordshire, remains an independent company with approximately 70 staff.

News

In August 2008, a row over doctors' freedom of speech was erupted after a trainee doctor was suspended for making offensive comments about a senior medical figure on the Doctors.net.uk forum. The comments, allegedly about the re-election of Dame Carol Black as the chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges – were made by a trainee in general surgery who was subsequently suspended from the Highland Deanery. Doctors.net.uk removed the offensive part of the posting as soon as it was alerted to it.[3]

Awards

In November 2008, Doctors.net.uk received a prestigious e-Learning Award for its work for the Department of Health (DH). The award, 'Best e-learning project securing widespread adoption' was a tribute to the work carried out by Doctors.net.uk in trying to reduce healthcare associated infections (HCAI) such as MRSA and C Difficile in UK hospitals.[4]

In September 2008, Doctors.net.uk was included in the prestigious Sunday Times Tech Track 100 [5], a list of Britain’s fastest growing private technology companies – ranked 87th based upon steady sales growth of 42% per year during the past three years.

In 2007, it won the award for the Best Small Business IT Strategy at the Computing (magazine) Awards for Excellence [6], one of the most prestigious IT awards in the UK. Cliff merchant MD Official Homepage

[1] Financial Times - Medicine may be one of Wap technology's 'killer' applications

References


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting — is a medical non profit organization that has been founded by medical doctors. In their Mission Statement, DAFOH refers to the Hippocratic Oath, Declaration of Helsinki, and other declarations of ethics in medicine. The organization is based in… …   Wikipedia

  • Doctors Hospital (Augusta, Georgia) — Doctors Hospital Geography Location Augusta, Georgia, United States Organization Care system Public Hospital type …   Wikipedia

  • Listen to the Doctors — Infobox Album | Name = Listen To The Doctors Type = Cover Album Artist = Dr. Sin Released = December 2005 Genre = Hard rock/Heavy metal Length = 47:51 Label = Trinity DC Reviews = * Whiplash.net rating 10|8… …   Wikipedia

  • Islands in the Net — infobox Book | name = Islands in the Net title orig = translator = image caption = Cover of first edition (hardcover) author = Bruce Sterling illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Science fiction …   Wikipedia

  • Operation Safety Net — (OSN) is a Street Medicine program in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. OSN was founded when Dr. Jim Withers and Mike Sallows began to make “house calls” together at night under the bridges, along the river banks and in the abandoned buildings of… …   Wikipedia

  • Medical Training Application Service — The Medical Training Application Service (MTAS, pronounced em tass) was an on line application system set up under the auspices of Modernising Medical Careers in 2007 and used for the selection of Foundation House Officers and Specialty… …   Wikipedia

  • Carol M. Black — Professor Dame Carol Black DBE, MD, FRCP, MACP, FMedSci, is the UK National Director for Health and Work, Chairman of the Nuffield Trust, Chairman of the Governance Board of the new Centre for Workforce Intelligence, President of the British Lung …   Wikipedia

  • Deanery (NHS) — An NHS Deanery is a regional organisation, within the structure of the UK National Health Service (NHS), responsible for postgraduate medical and dental training. As of June 2008[update] it appears that deaneries are regarded under UK law as… …   Wikipedia

  • Physician writer — Physician writers are medical doctors who write creatively in fields outside their practice of medicine. Their works include short stories, novels, poetry, drama, screenplays, children’s literature, speculative fiction, scholarly works, essays,… …   Wikipedia

  • List of Doctor Who DVD and Blu-ray releases — All of the Doctor Who Region 2 DVD Classic Series releases, as of 3 May 2010. This is a list of Doctor Who serials that are available on DVD and Blu ray. Contents 1 …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”