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SK Diary – w/c 22 April 2013

SK Diary – w/c 22 April 2013

Meeting with Simon Hamilton MLA On Wednesday morning I met with Simon Hamilton MLA, the Assembly Private Secretary to the Minister of Finance and Personnel who is set to succeed Sammy Wilson MLA in the role in 2013. This meeting came about through my involvement in healthcare social media.  Simon and I crossed tweets when I was live tweeting at NICON 2013 and he was tweeting from an accountancy conference.  We were both tweeting about …

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SK Diary – w/c 15 April 2013

SK Diary – w/c 15 April 2013

This week’s diary is a little late as I got caught up on Sunday with a technical issue while creating this Storify story. Opening of GlaxoSmithKline Office in Belfast On Wednesday afternoon I attended the opening of GSK’s office in Belfast.  They are the only international pharmaceutical company to open a permanent office in Northern Ireland and they told guests that this signals their commitment to Northern Ireland and the HSC. The Chief Medical Officer, …

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SK Diary – w/c 10 Dec

SK Diary – w/c 10 Dec

Measuring quality and efficiency of individual doctors This week a Consultant colleague and I walked to two other wards to see patients that were coded under him but were on specialty wards.  It turned out that both patients were under the care of specialty teams and this was just coding that needed updated.  Although it was important that we checked to ensure someone was looking after the patients it did take some time to do …

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