NHS Newsfeeds: a quiet beginning

Ben Toth has unearthed a few newsfeeds from NHS organizations. Not very many but, taken with his own newsfeed, the content is already enough to demonstrate the enormous potential of this medium for disseminating ideas and generating discussion within the NHS—and bringing in the public at large. As yet, of these only Ben’s site is an actual weblog with a comment facility. And, curiously, the news in the NHSIA’s feed bears no relationship to the news on its home page.

I wonder what software these NHS organizations are using? I bet won’t very often be MovableType, Radio Userland, or other mature weblog software. The NHSIA still seems to be pushing the rather hopeless Digerati product, which as far as I am aware does not have an RSS (or similar) newsfeed facility.

What is needed is a ‘killer’ site to publish (and advertise) a newsfeed. I have been working on the Health Service Journal (who so far have not returned my emails) and NICE (which I think is yet to be convinced).