Welcome aboard NHS Forums. The new unofficial forums for the National Health Service. Bar a few Facebook groups, which is providing Facebook with a lot of data that they perhaps should not be in charge of! (but that's for another thread), there aren't many, if any, independent forums and places you can discuss NHS in all its glory, and any other discussion you may not feel safe talking about using your true name, true email address, etc.
So I created this forum so we can all do that as staff, and / or as patients. As some of us are both!
HELP RUN YOUR OWN NHS FORUM CATEGORY ON HERE - PERHAPS A STAFF ONLY ONE FOR YOUR HOSPITAL?
There will be more local forums and hospital-specific forum categories and we will need staff from each hospital to help moderate and administrate. So please send me a PM if you'd like to express your interest in helping run your own hospital sub-forum. Perhaps even matching your Facebook roles, if you have a group going already (I know my hospital has one that I'm a member of for sure).
The NHS Forums are new and are growing
So any suggestions you have, then please post them in the suggestions forum.
NHS FORUMS RULES
As a posting member you agree to these rules, no exceptions! Members will get a couple of warnings and then a temporary ban. Too many of those in a short space of time and your account will get permanently banned. We understand that we all work in a very stressful environment so I'm eager to help others be their best selves, and not be their enemies.
1. BE NICE TO OTHERS
Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. No exceptions!
2. NO SPAM
No link building, selling, SEO tactics or anything else at all allowed. Links that regular members provide will be trusted, so please be sure to look out for the badges we will soon have in place showing who is who.
3 NO LINKING TO OTHER NHS FORUMS OR BLOGS OR GROUPS
We don't know who owns what groups, pages, and forums. And they could change hands over time too. So we are unique and not connected to anything, so we would like to keep it that way. So please don't link to other forums and groups without written consent from a member of staff on here.
4. NO PROVIDING HEALTH ADVICE SPECIFIC TO SOMEBODY ASKING!
We don't mind all health being discussed, that surely is a good thing for all. But we are NOT here to provide advice to patients' individual needs. In an emergency, members need to call 999, otherwise go see your own local GP. That said, we don't mind general health procedures being discussed as all education is brilliant when users really wish to engage well and really get deep with theories and best practices as well as the official line we tow as NHS Workers.
6. THESE RULES MAY BE UPDATED AT ANY TIME WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE
So please do check back every now and again to check and make sure you still agree to abide by them.
7. NOBODY NEEDS TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES TO OTHERS
You can all choose your own usernames and make them nicknames, avatars, online personas, or your real name. Use your real name at your own risk. Although we can change your name for you at a later date, there would already be records of what was posted under your name beyond our control (such as archive.org - the internet web archive service).
