# List of Baw Medical Discourses

**URL:** https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/list-of-baw-medical-discourses/965
**Category:** services
**Tags:** discourse
**Created:** [14 July 2024 16:18 UTC](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/list-of-baw-medical-discourses/965 "2024-07-14T16:18:03Z")
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### Author: ![marcusbaw](https://bawmedical.co.uk/user_avatar/bawmedical.co.uk/marcusbaw/32/938_2.png) [@marcusbaw](https://bawmedical.co.uk/u/marcusbaw)
#### Post date: [14 July 2024 16:18 UTC](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/list-of-baw-medical-discourses/965/1 "2024-07-14T16:18:03Z")

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### Current Discourse forums

| Forum | Created | Purpose | Basis |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Digital Health Networks](https://discourse.digitalhealth.net) | 2014 | The National NHS IT Community | Commercial |
| [OpenHealthHub](https://openhealthhub.org) | 2016 | The Open Healthcare IT Forum | Pro Bono |
| [Irish Clinical Digital Network](https://forum.ehealthireland.ie) | 2016 | Ireland HSE Digital Forums | Commercial |
| [OpenEHR Community Forums](https://forum.openehr.org) | 2019 | The official forums for the openEHR digital healthcare standard | Commercial |
| [Royal College of GPs Forums](https://forum.rcgp.org.uk/) | 2020 | Membership forums for RCGP | Commercial |
| [Baw Medical Ltd forums](https://bawmedical.co.uk/) | 2019 | Internal Baw Medical Ltd Discourse forum, used as notebook, runbook, knowledgebase and blog | Internal |
| [Restorative Just Culture Community Of Practice](https://restorativejustculture.org/) | 2021 | NHS England Human Resources Restorative Just Culture official forums | Commercial |
| [We All Count](https://community.weallcount.com/) | 2021 | Canadian-based Data Equity Training and Community | Commercial |
| [The Epilepsy Research Institute Hub](https://hub.epilepsy-institute.org.uk/) | 2023 | Official Community Hub for ERIUK | Commercial |
| [RCPCH Incubator Forums](https://forum.rcpch.tech/) | 2024 | Official forums of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Tech Incubator | Commercial |
| [International Guild of Knot Tyers Forum](https://discourse.igkt.net) | 2025 | Official forums of the International Guild of Knot Tyers | Pro Bono |

### Deprecated Discourse forums

The following are Discourse forums which I have provided in the past but are no longer active, to give a further idea of the wide range of Discourse communities I have supported.

| Forum | Created | Deprecated | Reason for deprecation |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Doxy.me](http://Doxy.me) User Forums | 2017 | 2018 | Set up as part of a commercial health platform but seems to have been closed down at some point after my involvement |
| Great North Care Record Forum | 2017 | 2020 | Change of organisational ownership left the forum without a sponsor |
| RCGP Health Informatics Group Forum | 2019 | 2021 | Merged into the Official RCGP Forum |
| All Together Better Sunderland | 2019 | 2021 | Organisation did not use the forum enough to justify keeping it |
| Digital Health Rewired | 2020 | 2024 | Merged into existing Digital Health Networks |
| peoplecentred.care - International Federation of Integrated Care | 2020 | 2022 | Federation could not find funding to continue |
| Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) | 2022 | 2024 | AoMRC decided not to continue with a Digital Health Group, archive forum content was migrated to the Digital Health Networks |