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What a privilege to be at TELHACK this weekend. I didn’t know what to expect but it certainly wasn’t that! At 5.30pm, after working pretty much non-stop all weekend, the teams did an amazing job of pitching to the judges. The judges posed some valid but difficult questions and they were handled brilliantly. Everyone managed…

The teams have been reminded of the 4.30pm deadline and told to try and have presentations ready by 2pm for a run through, tech check and feedback, allowing time for any last minute adaptations. Everyone seems calm so I’m guessing they’re all on track for deadline. Some even found time for a power nap…

TELHack has now reached its final day, and the contestants done well to stay aware of time limitations – there’s still another seven or so hours for them to work on their projects, but many of the groups have began to form their end product already. The productivity over the night remained surprisingly high, perhaps…

A few sleeping bags on the floor and some tired looking faces but walking in at 9.30am, everyone is hard at work and lots of progress has been made. Everyone seems positive about today and the clinical mentors have just arrived for the teams to ask for advice or guidance if needed.

Lots of conversations over the past 36 hours about the ways in which working in healthcare and healthcare education works, doesn’t work and could work. Overwhelmingly, people are here because of the opportunity to work with like-minded people, to learn from each other, to be creative but, above all, to work on a probelm collaboratively…

A midnight conversation with Huiqing at TELHack furthered my understanding of the way that hack events are being used by employers to hire the brightest and best. I’d already learned at Hack Train, another Hack Partners’ event, that companies look for good hack experience on CVs these days. Huiqing, a veteran of AMEE Hacks and…

I had an interesting chat with some colleagues working in healthcare yesterday evening. They concurred that events like the TEL Hackathon were a fantastic idea and supported the concept of hacks to innovate and positively disrupt the delivery of healthcare and education within the  NHS. But, they exclaimed, back in the “real world” of NHS…

Going around the room and talking to the teams, everyone is ready to work through the night. I’m not sure how they still have so much energy… I’m exhausted just watching how hard they’re working!! A constant supply of snacks and the excitement of presenting their ideas to improve healthcare tomorrow is keeping them going….

The participants have been developing their ideas all day, barely stopping to eat! So a well deserved Yoga session was much appreciated. An opportunity to take a bit of time away from the laptops, relax and refocus and get back to work refreshed. Now it’s 9.30pm and there’s no slowing down (The caffeine might be…

Th day is drawing in over London now, but the efforts of our teams are far from winding down – there’s approximately 24 more hours to go before the work stops. All of the teams have been putting their best efforts into making their ideas ideas reality, and it’s showing – many teams have began the…

Just caught up with the ‘patient 0’ team. They are working on an app that will give the opportunity to practise and test assessment skills before encountering real patients (hence the patient 0 name!) Also, just took part in a quick brainstorming session for the team who are developing an app for improving induction to…

As an educationalist and project manager working for Health Education England, I’m lucky enough to get to meet a huge range of people working in the healthcare service.  However, the opportunity for us all here to interact immediately and creatively with such a diverse range of people is a specific and innovative one. Hack Partners…