I found myself yesterday afternoon at something of a loose end.

Sitting at my desk I heard the ping of an incoming email and immediately stood to attention.

For it was an announcement from Her Majesty’s Government. Indeed it told of the news that the National Health Service have knocked up a portal of information about various parts of UK medical services.

It allows us the users of the healthcare to weigh up such vital questions as what is the chance of us dying popping into our local hospital for an x-ray.

If I sound a bit jaded it come from years of tying to get information from government sources and the NHS in particular. (I was once told that the number of doctors working in intensive care in the UK was confidential).

But while the site ain’t great. It is a start.

It puts together data on such subjects as:-

• patient safety
• efficiency
• quality
• public health
• social care commissioning
• hospital food standards

in one place so if you are interested, (and if you live in the UK you should be) have look at at the MyNHS site.

By the way is it just me or does anyone else think the name it total rubbish.

Anyhow if you do look at the site please review it using the comments section below!