Waiting Room Video/digital Displays

Re: Waiting Room Video/digital Displays

Martin Atkinson — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:13:39 GMT

We made our own up many years ago on a VHS cassette!! I looped togther several promotional videos which the clients may have found interesting but the staff became so fed up with the repetition they switched it to the daily soaps instead. In all honesty I think the clients prefer to watch the telly as well.

Re: Waiting Room Video/digital Displays

Cissy Lloyd Jones — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:09:44 GMT

Point taken, our PowerPoint show is very successful, clients love the staff pictures and also mainly pictures of their own animals, which I put in from time to time. In my home-knitted psychology I learned that clients do actually not like images of a flea ridden cat or a foul dog mouth or a dead myxo bunny, but do appreciate good photography of healthy shining pets! And cartoons make their impression, too.Those are really difficult to get hold of, unless you pay or "borrow" them from the web. I am quite blasé about criticism re "spending so much," a good restaurant can have excellent chefs but a lousy front of house. So I am watching this spot! (My car is a 12 year old Golf :-)

Re: Waiting Room Video/digital Displays

Cissy Lloyd Jones — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:59:20 GMT

Hi Amanda, like you I don't like notice boards and sello-tape and blue tack, sticky bits of bleached posters, the list is long.I like minimalism in a waiting room and not a thousand different bits of card board displays or plastic fleas.....I think people do not take it in. We use a good old fashioned Power Point show, but I find this is tedious to update, you get bits of news every day that should go there.The two companies above offer a service that can be updated online from any computer, this is what I would like but I have some reservations. This is still a market gap I feel. Thank you for the profender tip, must get that. 20 min is a good time, agree. Will see what happens! Regards, Cissy

Re: Waiting Room Video/digital Displays

Amanda Nicholls — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:23:09 GMT

We do our own, cheap and easy to do especially as flat screen tvs and dvd players are cheap enough to buy these days. Some clients watch it, the profender dvd is a big hit with the kids - we get school kids looking through the window on the way home to see the cat defecate at the end of the clip! I think a few drug companies have short clips you can use if you want to advertise some of your products. The one we have put together is about 20 minutes long and has a lot of information which we don't update very often.

I like it because i'm a bit of a neat freak and don't like notice boards.

Re: Waiting Room Video/digital Displays

Laurence Webb — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:43:35 GMT

We don't have any media like this in our waiting room, but a practice a few miles installed a flatscreen TV/monitor in their waiting room a few years ago. The feedback we heard was interesting. Obviously this came from clients that were less bonded to the practice, but we heard quite a few comments along the lines of 'well that's why they charge so much - to buy flashy TVs and big cars'

Not saying that you shouldn't use it, but just be careful that client's view it positively!

Re: Waiting Room Video/digital Displays

Michael Woodhouse — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:37:00 GMT

There was a recent In Practice article, seems the clever thing is to make your own. No ongoing costs that way and you can tailor it to do anything you want.