You can now follow the latest news from YHIP on Twitter.

Twitter is a free internet service which allows people to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question – what are you doing?

With an estimated 5 million users, it is one of the fastest growing social networking sites in the world and is particularly well used by the public sector and government to communicate.

Twitter enables us to post small snippets of information - or ‘tweets’ - with links to news, events, resources, videos etc or simply what is happening at YHIP that may be of interest to our followers at any given time. Any one surfing Twitter can find us if they type in 'health', 'social care', 'Yorkshire' or 'Humber' so hopefully using Twitter will be a great way to communicate with more people than ever before.

Twitter has proven itself particularly useful to the NHS during the recent swine flu health alert, helping to keep the public informed of the latest updates from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) and directing users to the modified cold and flu symptom checker. By doing this, the NHS were able to relieve some of the pressure from the call centre staff at particularly busy times.

The sheer number and range of people we can instantly reach across the UK with a single 'tweet' makes Twitter a very practical use of resources.

If you’re on Twitter, why don’t you follow us? You can access our feed at www.twitter.com/yhip . Alternatively you can see our feed embedded into this website at www.yhip.org.uk/twitter .

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