# blog **URL:** https://bawmedical.co.uk/c/blog/9.md?page=1 [Latest](https://bawmedical.co.uk/latest.md) · [Categories](https://bawmedical.co.uk/categories.md) · [Tags](https://bawmedical.co.uk/tags.md) **Page:** 2 --- ## [September 2014 - 2nd National NHS WiFi Survey](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/september-2014-2nd-national-nhs-wifi-survey/55)
**Author:** [@marcusbaw](https://bawmedical.co.uk/u/marcusbaw)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [22 January 2025 14:50 UTC](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/september-2014-2nd-national-nhs-wifi-survey/55 "2025-01-22T14:50:54Z")
Following the 2013 WiFi Survey, I ran a repeat survey in 2014, to see if there had been any change in the provision of WiFi to clinical NHS staff in the intervening year. In short, there had been a significant increase … --- ## [Get the Apple MagicMouse ‘back’ feature with a Logitech M305 mouse and Ubuntu or Linux Mint](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/get-the-apple-magicmouse-back-feature-with-a-logitech-m305-mouse-and-ubuntu-or-linux-mint/56)
**Author:** [@marcusbaw](https://bawmedical.co.uk/u/marcusbaw)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [20 August 2024 17:55 UTC](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/get-the-apple-magicmouse-back-feature-with-a-logitech-m305-mouse-and-ubuntu-or-linux-mint/56 "2024-08-20T17:55:04Z")
I hated my MacBook when I tried one earlier this year. I gave it 6 months near enough, but I couldn’t get used to the erratic minimise’ behaviour of the Dock, the US keyboard layout, the bloody cost of any decent apps or… --- ## [Child health centiles… doing them in code part 1](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/child-health-centiles-doing-them-in-code-part-1/57)
**Author:** [@marcusbaw](https://bawmedical.co.uk/u/marcusbaw)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [9 May 2014 23:00 UTC](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/child-health-centiles-doing-them-in-code-part-1/57 "2014-05-09T23:00:00Z")
What is a centile? (because not all techies are /^math|maths/ geeks) A centile is a way of demonstrating where a particular measurement lies within a distribution of data. A good way to express it in a way that makes sen… --- ## [When is Open Source not Open Source?](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/when-is-open-source-not-open-source/58)
**Author:** [@marcusbaw](https://bawmedical.co.uk/u/marcusbaw)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [6 March 2014 00:00 UTC](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/when-is-open-source-not-open-source/58 "2014-03-06T00:00:00Z")
I had an interesting conversation at the NHS England Healthcare Innovation Expo on Monday and Tuesday of this week (3-4th March 2014) with a pathologist Fred Mayall who has done some excellent work enabling clinicians to… --- ## [Here’s a handy cut’n’paste-able block to add when that NHS policy document needs to be just one meaningless paragraph longer…](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/here-s-a-handy-cut-n-paste-able-block-to-add-when-that-nhs-policy-document-needs-to-be-just-one-meaningless-paragraph-longer/59)
**Author:** [@marcusbaw](https://bawmedical.co.uk/u/marcusbaw)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [8 December 2013 00:00 UTC](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/here-s-a-handy-cut-n-paste-able-block-to-add-when-that-nhs-policy-document-needs-to-be-just-one-meaningless-paragraph-longer/59 "2013-12-08T00:00:00Z")
“The business requirements, risks and benefits have been developed in close cooperation with the partnering stakeholders to ensure that a top down approach was employed across all the organisations involved. This method… --- ## [StrangeWiki - a clinical wiki](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/strangewiki-a-clinical-wiki/60)
**Author:** [@marcusbaw](https://bawmedical.co.uk/u/marcusbaw)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [2 December 2013 00:00 UTC](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/strangewiki-a-clinical-wiki/60 "2013-12-02T00:00:00Z")
I’m a big fan of clinical Wikis. They allow clinicians to take control of their own content and present it in the way that they need to see it at the point of care. They are not Intranets. Intranets tend to be out of dat… --- ## [May 2013 - National NHS WiFi survey](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/may-2013-national-nhs-wifi-survey/61)
**Author:** [@marcusbaw](https://bawmedical.co.uk/u/marcusbaw)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [29 September 2013 23:00 UTC](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/may-2013-national-nhs-wifi-survey/61 "2013-09-29T23:00:00Z")
Following on from a discussion on NHS Hack Day email discussion group (link), there was a concern that clinicians and other healthcare staff had poor access to WiFi networks, even when such networks were already in place… --- ## [Please Sir, can we have a Library?](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/please-sir-can-we-have-a-library/64)
**Author:** [@marcusbaw](https://bawmedical.co.uk/u/marcusbaw)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [28 May 2013 23:00 UTC](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/please-sir-can-we-have-a-library/64 "2013-05-28T23:00:00Z")
Knowledge resources that were hitherto provided in books and paper journals are increasingly being accessed using Internet based methods. New sources of knowledge such as UptoDate, Map Of Medicine, NHS CKS, MedicinesComp… --- ## [An Internet Museum of General Practice Computing?](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/an-internet-museum-of-general-practice-computing/66)
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In recent months I’ve spent a lot of time talking to people who have been in Health Informatics for several decades, some of whom wrote their own GP clinical systems ‘back in the day’, when GP computing was pushed forwar… --- ## [Local Referral Maps – Wigan & Leigh](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/local-referral-maps-wigan-leigh/67)
**Author:** [@marcusbaw](https://bawmedical.co.uk/u/marcusbaw)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [1 August 2011 23:00 UTC](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/local-referral-maps-wigan-leigh/67 "2011-08-01T23:00:00Z")
While working in the Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT/CCG area as a GP trainee in 2010, I developed an electronic repository of referral guidance and referral forms, pertinent to the local area. This kind of information coul… [Previous page](https://bawmedical.co.uk/c/blog/9.md)