{"id":595,"date":"2012-10-12T15:01:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/?p=595"},"modified":"2021-10-22T07:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T07:04:52","slug":"25-clinical-commissioning-related-accounts-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/2012\/10\/12\/25-clinical-commissioning-related-accounts-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"25 clinical commissioning-related accounts on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"Twitter bird icon - CCG twitter links\" src=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/images\/resources\/twitter-bird-light-bgs.png\" alt=\"Twitter bird icon - CCG twitter links\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Having previously identified <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/2012\/10\/04\/20-places-to-keep-up-to-date-on-clinical-commissioning-and-ccgs\/\">20 useful sources for CCG-related news<\/a>, here are <strong>25 Twitter accounts to follow if you want to know what&#8217;s happening with clinical commissioning<\/strong>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHSLeicester\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/2488754754\/logo_for_facebook_normal.jpg\" alt=\"NHS Leicester City\" width=\"15\" \/><strong>NHS Leicester City<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@NHSLeicester<\/a>: &#8220;Leicester City CCG takes over health commissioning from NHS Leicester City in April.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarnetCCG\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/2598926719\/oe96g0d6rdsq5o44cv4y_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"Barnet CCG\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"817138866\" \/><strong>Barnet CCG<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@BarnetCCG<\/a>: &#8220;Barnet clinical commissioning group buys healthcare for the population of Barnet.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HSJnews\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/59042229\/hsj-2_normal.jpg\" alt=\"HealthServiceJournal\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"14491411\" \/><strong>HealthServiceJournal<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@HSJnews<\/a>: &#8220;The UK&#8217;s leading health management and policy resource.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoyLilley\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/531526885\/RL_with_no_background_colour_normal.JPG\" alt=\"Roy Lilley\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"20433786\" \/><strong>Roy Lilley<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@RoyLilley<\/a>: &#8220;Health writer and commentator&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrBenRiley\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/2705402193\/04b3c5b236318d7a0a975e7417c38734_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"Ben Riley\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"395920909\" \/><strong>Ben Riley<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@DrBenRiley<\/a>: &#8220;Curriculum Director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RCGP\" data-screen-name=\"RCGP\"><s>@<\/s><strong>RCGP<\/strong><\/a>; Clinical Lead for &#8216;Social Media Highway Code&#8217; &amp; enhanced GP training.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProdPrimCare\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1704366565\/Untitled_normal.png\" alt=\"PPCLtd(Dillon Sykes)\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"368853653\" \/><strong>PPCLtd(Dillon Sykes)<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@ProdPrimCare<\/a>: &#8220;We work with GP practices, CCG&#8217;s and other healthcare organisations to improve productivity and efficiency along with patient outcomes.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GPonlinenews\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1178521287\/gp48_normal.jpg\" alt=\"GPonline.com\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"19180007\" \/><strong>GPonline.com<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@GPonlinenews<\/a>: &#8220;GP magazine and GPonline.com provide daily news for UK GPs, clinical and management resources, CPD and educational materials. Also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MedeconomicsUK\" data-screen-name=\"MedeconomicsUK\"><s>@<\/s><strong>MedeconomicsUK<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"#gpnews\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/?src=hash&amp;q=%23gpnews\" data-query-source=\"hashtag_click\"><s>#<\/s><strong>gpnews<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GdnHealthcare\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1311230816\/G_twitter_GdnHealthcare_normal.jpg\" alt=\"Guardian Healthcare\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"28574460\" \/><strong>Guardian Healthcare<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@GdnHealthcare<\/a>: &#8220;Comment, analysis and insight for NHS professionals.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfSteveField\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1750081272\/SF-twitter_normal.jpg\" alt=\"Prof Steve Field\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"462068329\" \/><strong>Prof Steve Field<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@ProfSteveField<\/a>: &#8220;Chair of the NHS Future Forum and National Inclusion Health Board. GP in Birmingham&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DevonLMCvchair\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/2086078602\/AndySantI__320x200__normal.jpg\" alt=\"DevonLMCvchair\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"413204871\" \/><strong>DevonLMCvchair<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@DevonLMCvchair<\/a>: &#8220;Andy Sant. GP and vice chairman of Devon LMC. Adult safeguarding lead in Devon. Named doctor for child protection in Plymouth.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimeaston8\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/2413111289\/image_normal.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Easton\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"20996426\" \/><strong>Jim Easton<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@jimeaston8<\/a>: &#8220;National Director for Transformation for the NHS Commissioning Board in England&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jeremy_Hunt\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/683053376\/jeremy-hunt-cropped_normal.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy Hunt\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"112398730\" \/><strong>Jeremy Hunt<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<em><\/em>\u00a0@Jeremy_Hunt<\/a>: &#8220;Conservative MP for South West Surrey and Secretary of State for Health&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amirhannan\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/2328902717\/i8yx52dj7cqed6xipoj4_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"Dr Amir Hannan\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"404785994\" \/><strong>Dr Amir Hannan<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@amirhannan<\/a>: &#8220;I am a full-time General Practitioner, a member of the Health Informatics Clinical Advisory Team and the Primary Care IT clinical lead for NHS North-West&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pzr1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/2408279649\/q5m4ewd08vgwbqtow3gq_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"Paul Zollinger-Read\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"20437238\" \/><strong>Paul Zollinger-Read<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@Pzr1<\/a>: &#8220;Group Medical Director for Bupa&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mellojonny\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/361890051\/support_nhs_normal.png\" alt=\"Jonathon Tomlinson\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"65575742\" \/><strong>Jonathon Tomlinson<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; @mellojonny<\/a>: &#8220;NHS GP in Hackney. Keep Our NHS Public steering cttee member<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keepournhspublic.com\/index.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robertvarnam\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1285641715\/Robert_Varnam_-_portrait_-_7_-_1024w_normal.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Varnam\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"25123565\" \/><strong>Robert Varnam<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; @robertvarnam<\/a>: &#8220;Inner city GP, Clinical Lead for Commissioning @ NHS Institute, Co-Lead for Integration @ NHS Future Forum. Trainer &amp; coach in quality improvement &amp; leadership.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/John_Rooke\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1507884365\/JR_150x150_normal.jpg\" alt=\"John Rooke\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"288955286\" \/><strong>John Rooke<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; @John_Rooke<\/a>: &#8220;COO, Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveKellGP\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1351967713\/DSC00100_normal.JPG\" alt=\"Steve Kell\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"247299403\" \/><strong>Steve Kell<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@SteveKellGP<\/a>: &#8220;GP and Chair, NHS Bassetlaw Clinical Commissioning Group.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidStout100\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/2218609592\/image_normal.jpg\" alt=\"David Stout\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"287594912\" \/><strong>David Stout<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; @DavidStout100<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsj.co.uk\/people\/david-stout\">writer on HSJ<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrShaneGordon\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1798904118\/SG_small_001_normal.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Shane Gordon\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"238195115\" \/><strong>Dr. Shane Gordon<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@DrShaneGordon<\/a>: &#8220;CEO, NE Essex CCG GP Commissioning Federation Co-Lead, NHS Alliance&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jappleby123\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/2035515882\/2919_John_crop1_normal.jpg\" alt=\"John Appleby\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"30257977\" \/><strong>John Appleby<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@jappleby123<\/a>: &#8220;Chief economist, The King&#8217;s Fund. Visiting professor, Department of Economics, City University, London. Columnist, British Medical Journal&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marshall_johnny\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1651806934\/Dr_Marshall_J_normal.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Marshall\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"398998756\" \/><strong>Johnny Marshall<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@marshall_johnny<\/a>: &#8220;Professionally a GP first and foremost.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clarercgp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1548614281\/image_normal.jpg\" alt=\"Clare Gerada\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"155236184\" \/><strong>Clare Gerada<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@clarercgp<\/a>: &#8220;Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHSCB\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/2668805901\/5c8b54052909baab544c38c34725cad0_normal.png\" alt=\"NHS CB\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"607257615\" \/><strong>NHS CB<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@NHSCB<\/a>: &#8220;Official Twitter feed from the NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB)&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joemccrea1966\"><img src=\"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/2049987258\/JM06_normal.jpg\" alt=\"Joe McCrea\" width=\"15\" data-user-id=\"66180183\" \/><strong>Joe McCrea<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0@joemccrea1966<\/a>: &#8220;PR, Digital Comms &amp; Social Media Innovator &#8211; former DH &amp; Number 10 Special Adviser and former UK Govt knowledge management chief&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/#!\/paulbradshaw\/ccgpeople\/members\">here&#8217;s the full list<\/a> (including a few others) so you can follow it with one click<\/p>\n<div class=\"tweetthis\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><p> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=25+clinical+commissioning-related+accounts+on+Twitter+http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Fhealth%2F%3Fp%3D595\" title=\"Post to Twitter\"><img class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=25+clinical+commissioning-related+accounts+on+Twitter+http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Fhealth%2F%3Fp%3D595\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having previously identified 20 useful sources for CCG-related news, here are 25 Twitter accounts to follow if you want to know what&#8217;s happening with clinical commissioning: Tweet This Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[271,268,260,265,193,281,243,277,263,266,261,270,269,283,279,275,280,273,259,282,272,264,274,262,278,267,276,258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}