FineFettleApps

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Created on 25/06/2012

FineFettleApps

FineFettleApps is an online apps agency, whose first product draws on Open Data released by the Department of Health to help people find the best local GP for them.

 

FineFettleApps is a Leeds-based app agency set up in 2012 by Mark Barrett, who has worked in the digital industry for 13 years and is currently a service delivery manager for the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

FineFettleApps has launched GP Ratings, the new iPhone app that helps patients locate the best local GP surgeries. The iPhone app rates all 8,344 GP Surgeries in England by mining the 11 million responses from the Department of Health’s national GP Patient Survey.  With an average of 191 patient responses per question, app users can now make informed choices about their healthcare.

Patients enter their postcode or use the inbuilt GPS technology to locate their closest GP surgeries. The resulting list of local surgeries is star rated enabling users make detailed comparisons between healthcare providers. The app displays the ratings provided for the following questions:

  • Would patients recommend their GP Surgery to others?
  • Are patients able to see a Dr. within 2 working days?
  • Are patients satisfied with their ability to see a preferred Dr.
  • Are patients satisfied with the care they received?
  • Do patients have confidence and trust in their Dr.?
  • Do patients feel their Dr. involves them in decisions about their care?
  • Are patients happy with the surgery opening hours?

Mark Barrett, of FineFettleApps.com said, “When I moved house my family and I registered with our local surgery. However, we weren’t happy with the care our son received. After searching online, I realised I didn’t have enough feedback from other patients to help me make an informed choice about the best GP surgery to register with. So instead I used Government Transparency Data and found that by linking up different spreadsheets I could find a better GP surgery that I knew listened to their patients and could see us quickly. I decided to use data I found to build a simple app, transforming the data into star ratings so others could make informed decisions about their healthcare too.”

The app is available to download from the Apple app store.

Website: http://www.finefettleapps.com

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I have made two requests for

Posted by on 15/07/12

I have made two requests for information from this company. Neither of which have been answered.

In the interests of

Posted by FineFettleApps on 07/08/12

In the interests of Transparency, I phoned the person that left this comment, explained that unfortunately I couldn't get back to him as soon as I'd usually hope to as I had an extrememly busy week. We have spoken about working together, and setting up a group of people that would like to be involved (nurses and doctors). Watch this space for app updates...