We've been itching to link to Tom Watson's recent post about NHS Choices, and now we have our blog set up, we can, and just did.

Don't get me wrong - Tom Watson seems to be a thoroughly excellent chap. I don't know him personally, but if I met him I would buy him a drink.

I suppose I was just disappointed that he blogged about patient feedback via NHS Choices, and somehow forgot to mention that Patient Opinion was delivering the goods before NHS Choices was even a twinkle in the eye.

As quite a lot of people pointed out.

So Patient Opinion finally has a blog.

Well, not quite true - since we did have a blog before, set up for us by our good friends at Headshift. It was fine, but since we rebuilt our site in February 2008 we somehow wanted to be running and hosting our own blog too. You know, so you can fiddle with it.

So here we are, running on blogengine.net, and the plan is to get quite a few of the growing Patient Opinion team onboard and blogging for the first time. Which would be good, given that we are...err... a web-based outfit.