This is useful and interesting.<p>I tried searchig for [health care assisstant] and it didn't find anything. You may want to include some misspelling detection. It also didn't find anything for [health care assistant]. The two descriptions for [HCA] ask for more information.<p>Eventually you might want to include routes into each role. You may want to consider including information about protected terms - words like dietitian or art therapist are protected by law.<p>I do really like the ease of use and clarity though.
The search function seemed to miss most roles I tried - maybe focus people through the 'explore by profession' until you have a larger index?<p>'We couldn't find any NHS roles containing "radiologist".'
We couldn't find any NHS roles containing "vascular surgeon".<p>It would be cool to have a short profile of an actual person in the role, could help make a human connection.<p>I wonder if a wiki-style page might be easier for people to contribute to and moderate? The suggestion form feels a bit foreign and makes me wonder if I submit something, will it actually get looked at or included? I'm less inclined to contribute if I'm not sure you'll even use my suggestion.<p>It would be cool to map 'who works with who' or what part/ division of the hospital/GP/etc people work in.<p>Cool start, keep at it!
Hi ben, I love the idea, currently you are missing neurologist.<p>I'd be really interested to speaking with you about something I'm working on at the moment <a href="http://benlowery.co.uk/medical_diary/the_idea.html" rel="nofollow">http://benlowery.co.uk/medical_diary/the_idea.html</a><p>Briefly, it's a fully integrated 'MIS' (it's similar at least so that other techies/tech management understand what I mean) aimed entirely at patients and allowing them to better manage their own care, will be freely hosted and open source.<p>So far I've gotten a bunch of people and friends from various industries on-board (though I'm still the only developer, it kinda snowballed) but I've never done anything like this and (nosying around) it appears you have.
I noticed that Assistant Lead Nurse needs capitalising. <a href="http://www.whocares.io/professions/10/roles/97" rel="nofollow">http://www.whocares.io/professions/10/roles/97</a>
I was mostly expecting this to showcase 'fringe' roles - the kinds of roles that you don't hear about or see discussed in NHS careers literature. Instead, it looks like it lists the same categories and roles as those found on the NHS Careers website.<p>I know for a fact (and was surprised when I found out) that some NHS trusts employ UX designers - not a role mentioned by any NHS careers literature (so far as I've found). That's the kind of fringe role I'd be interested in knowing about - what a UX designer does in the NHS, how it's different to other sectors, who his stakeholders are and how someone might enter such a role. For common roles, I can just look at the NHS Careers website.
<a href="http://www.whocares.io/search_results?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=HCA" rel="nofollow">http://www.whocares.io/search_results?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=...</a><p>I happen to have an HCA (Health Care Assistant) friend and searching for it gives me 2 different results!<p>Looks like you should make the role names case insensitive :)
With a title of "The people who care in the NHS" I was expecting to read some amazing stories written about individuals who went out of their way to demonstrate passion for their profession and caring for patients. A "Chicken Soup for the NHS Soul" if you will. Instead, this appears to be "Professions in the NHS" and only describes what the <i>profession</i> does rather than highlighting individual <i>people</i>. Or is it supposed to be both, and is only lacking stories about the people themselves?
Even more useful would be "who doesn't care" - my GP's modus operandi is "tell me what to write in the notes, I've got a tee booked". Nearly died because of his negligence, and I've heard the exact same tale from others.<p>I realise this site is about generalised ideal people, but the true description of GP should be "Gatekeeping golfer, practices medicine due to a lack of imagination, resents patients, lacks patience."
Who cares, no one... why launch something like this without first curating some starter profiles?<p>You may want to look at posting on some nursing forums and paramedic forums to get some content before pushing this.