Welcome!

[matt]

If you’ve just arrived as a Pioneer member this is where it all begins. HealthUnlocked is a social network for health advocates like yourself to start an online movement. It’s about reaching other people and pooling together a mixture of information, support and experience to empower and change the lives of others. Most people with similar health interests also have something unique in their own experience that can help others. Everything here is designed to help you unlock the power of the crowd.

Back in 2007 I was a resident surgeon in a leading UK hospital. Our government was launching a series of changes to the way specialist doctors like myself were being accredited, and 99% of us felt it was a damaging step for the nation’s health, harmful both to us and future generations of patients we’d be treating. Big health institutions weren’t interested, so myself and a handful of doctors got together online. We started bringing more and more doctors into the group through the web. At first many thought we were crazy but quickly we became grassroots advocates for a generation of UK doctors, and in a couple of months we had a movement of 15,000 that provided support, inspiration and information to each other. We organized the biggest medical rally in UK history, an ongoing media campaign and, eventually, a high profile legal action. We got the health reforms radically changed for the better. See the article: bit.ly/R3tCM4

I learnt a lot about the immense power of togetherness, so when I joined forces with Jorge (our CEO) to dream up HealthUnlocked one of the main goals we shared was to make creating an online movement easier for inspired health advocates like you. From my own experience the importance of the group pioneers is the key.

That’s why you being here and reading this today is an important moment. In my experience if you can summon up the persistence to connect with other pioneers, create some activity, and trigger the spirit of a community, there’s no end to what you will go on to achieve together.

This 3 minute TED lecture speaks volumes about it: youtu.be/RXMnDG3QzxE(Not working as expected?)

[SusieJo1948]

Hi Matt that was very eye opening and glad to get to know you and how health unlocked got started.I didn't know that it was Dr's that's really great. I am a member of the lung cancer community since 2016 I helped in getting it off the ground. All the members tell me how I helped them and the new ones.I gave them hope and to fight and not give up. I helped them be less afraid of there diagnoses. I'm susiejo1948 I had stage 3 and in lympnodes. They removed my upper left lobe refused radiation. Did six months chemo Taxetere,carplatin, and abraxan. I'm a 6 year Survivor. This community helped me a lot gave me the strength to help others I say this was meant for me to do. Thanks for all you've done to make Health unlocked a success and bringing it to the USA. Sincerely Susan Jo Walls/ susie jo1948