NHS electronic record films on YouTube

27 Jun 2008

Connecting for Health has launched a new channel on global video sharing website YouTube.

The channel was launched to coincide with the release of a new DVD for nurses, midwives and allied health practitioners at a national CfH nursing conference last week.

So far the channel features two scripted 8-10 minute films, with parts played by actors.

CfH say the mini dramas demonstrate how new technology will help patients to receive better, safer patient care in future.

The first film tells the story of a patient from being taken ill in the street, to receiving hospital treatment and eventually being cared for at home.

CfH said of the movie: “It has been filmed to demonstrate how staff and patient experience of care will change as National Programme for IT initiatives such as Healthspace, Summary Care Records, mobile clinical devices and PACS are introduced across the country.”

The second film explores questions around how these initiatives actually work in practice. CfH say “The actors step out of role to debate vigorously the benefits and drawbacks.”

The videos also feature CfH clinical leaders answering frequently asked questions about NPfIT.

A CfH spokesperson told EHI the channel was not set up by the agency itself, but the two pieces of film were taken from the DVD and uploaded onto the website by clinicians with permission from the agency.

When EHI viewed the videos on thursday they had received about 400 hits. The top YouTube health video, using NHS as a search term, is ‘The NHS Song - Amateur Transplants’, a satire on the state of the NHS, which has received over a quarter of a million hits.

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Joe Fernandez

Reader's Comments

an experiment in care

cpoee1@yahoo.com

27 Jun 08 05:25

At least the nurse has not been cognitively bankrupted by the brilliantly progressive NPfit new technology system, recognizing the bizarreness of the pulse of 172 with a systolic bp of 172, in a 70+ year old patient suffering a heart attack. As stated in the headline of your 10 July 2007 report, former NHS IT programme chief Granger said he is ”ashamed” of some of the systems put into the NHS. These videos are confirmatory. A blasted experiment is what this is.

Cepi

Access

27 Jun 08 06:45

Do all NHS organisationa allow their staff to access YouTube at work?

How ironic

james@laing.plus.com

27 Jun 08 08:03

that these videos are automatically blocked by my NHS connection as likely to be "Offensive,Sexual,Illegal'Harmful to our computer systems,Not appropriate for business usage"

"shut up" and "just do it"

27 Jun 08 09:26

The videos are a little odd if somewhat entertaining. The "future" video is a pretty good attempt at showing how things might change.

But the real oddity is the "benefits" video which seems to have captured real life very effectviely. The director telling the actors to "shut up" and "just do it" sounds like the CfH communications strategy under Mr Granger. And the occassional fumbling responses by the director to the tougher questions also seems to reflect how CfH cannot justify some of their messages / benefits.

The challenge now is to move from the picture the "benefits" video portrays to the one of the "future", without being dictatorial and realising that the "future" is still some way off.

Its actually very good

27 Jun 08 09:35

I am surprised to hear myself say this -but its actually very good.

However I am not surpised to say that i did not know of its existance, either on CD-ROM or any other media and I work for them!

Personally I'd run it on a 32" (screwed down) monitor in key clinical areas and Outpatient areas / A&E / PCT HQ receptions; because no-one in the NHS can see the thing at work.

Duh!

Not N3

27 Jun 08 11:54

Well I can view them all so any blocking is likely due to local firewalls etc and not the national system.

Lord Hunt said in April 2007..

27 Jun 08 12:29

"The NHS IT programme is already being used by clinicians and bringing benefits for patients with digital technology transforming diagnosis and treatment every day."

http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/newsroom/media/pacreport170407

So why over a year later do we have propaganda aimed at NHS staff?

How ironic indeed

27 Jun 08 12:43

CfH have put major pressure on NHS organisations to limit access to YouTube and the like because of the N3-Internet gateways. Local organisations are limiting access because of the amount of local N3 bandwidth it eats and buying upgrades to N3 is so prohibitively expensive.

Will they now include access to video streaming in the algorithm for calculating the central funding for sites. I suspect not. They have spent all the money on funding videos selling a vision of NPfIT which they cannot deliver.

I try not to slag CfH off unreasonably but thinking that setting up a YouTube channel is one of their current priorities smacks of organisational egotism of the highest order

Re: How ironic indeed

27 Jun 08 21:48

Quote from story: "A CfH spokesperson told EHI the channel was not set up by the agency itself, but the two pieces of film were taken from the DVD and uploaded onto the website by clinicians with permission from the agency."

I suggest you read the whole story before leaping to your keyboard.

The complete versions are on the NHS CFH website

28 Jun 08 09:49

Quote from the article: "the channel was not set up by the agency itself". Which makes the article's own opening statement disingenuous at least.

Fuller versions of the DVDs and some extracted clips are actually available on the NHS CFH website:

http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/engagement/clinical/supporting