PatientOpinion.org.uk - Research Patient Experiences

Everyone has heard some sort of horror story about a doctor misdiagnosing someone and all the complexities that can happen afterwards. For that reason it is always recommended to get a second opinion on these matters from another doctor. It is also a good idea to try to find patients that have experienced the same sort of problems and find out what they did to get better and take that into consideration as well. Up until now that was fairly difficult to do because the last of access to that sort of information, Now with PatientOpinion.org.uk anyone can log on to the site, type in the symptoms or sickness, or whatever criteria they feel appropriate and the site will search through the database to present the information most relevant to the person searching. People can post their hospital experiences freely.

What is this about?
Patient Opinion is all about enabling patients to share their experiences of health care, and by doing so help other patients — and perhaps even change the NHS.

As well as allowing everyone to see what patients are saying about their services, it also offers a way to feed the experience of patients back to the NHS so that their insights and ideas can be put to good use.

This can be of great value to those having sicknesses that they feel might be being mistreated and a good way to see the track records of others who have had similar sicknesses and what they did to cure it, or perhaps more importantly the things they did that didn't work so the reader knows what they may want to avoid if at all possible.

As of now the site is targeted to the English, it should be more open, Americans and all other English speakers will value this information just as much as the Brits would.