Nick Yeo, already the Chief Executive of two other primary care trusts, was appointed for the role due to his excellent track record and strategic vision.

(speech) “I am delighted to be joining Hampshire Partnership trust as it moves towards Foundation Trust status, with the hope this will enhance our services into the future”

Being one of the first NHS Trusts in the country to use this modern method of communication, Hampshire Partnership Trust created the Facebook group with the idea to raise support for their application to become a Foundation Trust.

Terry Rydzynski, Web Development Manager for the Trust, said “The viral nature of Facebook means that it’s possible for the group to effectively promote itself. We set the group up as a way to recruit members to our Trust and hoped that people may help to spread the word through Facebook. We also use it as a tool now to allow staff to communicate among themselves and it allows us to follow these conversations so we can spot potential issues earlier.”

If the application to become a Foundation Trust is successful it would mean that local people can get involved, voice their opinions about the Trust and say what needs to be done to improve it.

The Facebook group also stands the purpose to raise awareness of mental health, learning disabilities and social care services, across Hampshire and reduce the stigma that is often associated with these subjects.

With a membership of 79 the group isn’t the most highly populated on the site as you would imagine but it is early days yet. Terry explained: “We are simply experimenting with Facebook at the moment and it’s too early to determine whether it’s been successful or not. We don’t even really have a set of success criteria by which we can measure and there are likely to be more benefits/disadvantages that we simply don’t know about yet.”

Some background information on Friedrich Nietzsche (as I didn’t know who he was before and so i can remind myself!)

- He was a German Philosopher who influenced many major philosophers and writers of the 20th century in Germany and France 

-After his father’s death he rejected his faith and launched into a lifelong rebellion against Christianity stating that “In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross”

-In 1872 he published his first book ‘The birth of Tragedy’ in which greek mythology featured highly as a explanation for his theory that all human beings have uncontrollable self destructive instincts.His most popular book however was ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ (1883-1885).

-In 1889 Nietzsche suffered a mental breakdown, he first went into an assylum and then into his family’s care. Nietzsche then died in August 1900.

I’m Kate if you havn’t already guessed, I’m studying Creative Writing and Journalism and I origionally come from Bournemouth, (well Poole but Bournemouth sounds better). Politics is definately something that goes straight over my head but I’m hoping that maybe thats just because I havn’t paid much attention to it before, guess there’s no excuse now!

Hopefully you will be able to tell if I become a fountain of knowledge by reading this? who knows I’ve never done one before! Anyways think thats all!

Kate