So good from Giles 🤌🙌

had some stuff to get off my chest about strategies ~ gilest.org/notes/strate...

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped: Getting Started with openEHR - with Ian McNicoll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWhyss_Ako A solid starting point for anyone who’s interested in getting started with openEHR - quite a long...

Honestly, this Test & Learn event is joyful. There are so many examples of the real-life transformation of public institutions - quicker, more responsive, more human, more purpose-driven and fun to work in. e.g. these slides are from a brilliant example from Nottingham 1/n

With thanks to @da.vebrig.gs for sharing this new post… ✨ I spend lots of time talking about making things more 'service-oriented' … this post updates some of that thinking. incl. what I wrote in Multiplied, based on work, opportunities and ideas I'm seeing in places like Health/NHS #servicedesign

For the morning crowd… If you’re a senior dev, engineering mgr, senior devops, tech team lead, tech arch, tech community of practice lead or other technologist and fancy a change in career, come join my team to help orgs around the world adapt to the digital age.

Hugh Muir recalls the response of London Mayor Ken Livingstone to 7/7 from Singapore. I agree that, despite his flaws & failings at other times, that this was an important message www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Last week saw another govt '10 year plan': after infrastructure and industrial policy, this was for the NHS. Writing a guest blog for @futuregovforum.bsky.social , @e17chrisfleming.bsky.social offers 5 tips for making the digital transformation elements work: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Read this brilliant article by @e17chrisfleming.bsky.social, Public Digital’s Health and Care lead, which sets out five ways the government can make its 10 Year NHS digitisation plan work ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #10YearHealthPlan #NHS futuregovforum.substack.com/p/five-ways-...

Lessons from the pandemic: leading in times of uncertainty. 🎙️ In our latest #podcast episode, Audree Fletcher joins @e17chrisfleming.bsky.social to discuss how leaders can deliver in uncertain and changing environments. ⏯️ bit.ly/45H8jJz @nhsconfed.org @publicdigital.bsky.social

Just dropped Ep 2 of The Digital Shift. @e17chrisfleming.bsky.social chats with Cate McLaurin on why cyber-attacks are inevitable, how to mitigate risk and real-world lessons from Hackney’s ransomware incident. Listen 👉 #CyberResilience #HealthTech @nhsproviders.bsky.social @nhsconfed.org

Are you prepared for a #cyberattack? 🎙️Tune in to hear @e17chrisfleming.bsky.social‬ interview @madebycatem.bsky.social about: 🟢 Her experience leading the response to a high-profile attack 🟢 How to build your #cyberresilience. ⏯️ bit.ly/446G4RZ @nhsconfed.org @publicdigital.bsky.social

Weeknotes: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed. (video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)

In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

i mean sure but what am i meant to do with this information, “oh shit better cut down on my microplastic intake”

In this era, I think it's more useful to sort people by whether they participate in democratic discourse or disordered discourse, rather than left vs right.

Tremendous write-up of a great event. Thanks for sharing James.

764,000 fools easily parted from their money - 58 crypto wallets have made millions on Trump’s meme coin. 764,000 have lost money, data shows www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/t...

Hospital medics - I’m researching a story about Epic, the supplier of electronic patient record systems. Any views? Let me know on or off the record. #journorequest

Our MD @egawen.bsky.social talks to Think Digital about her career so far and the various challenges women face in the workplace. #dpi #transformation #ukgov

Much hard-earned wisdom from @publicdigital.bsky.social network member @jamiearnold.com on how to craft a really good outcome. www.jamiearnold.com/blog/2025/5/...

New blog post: The 4Ds Roles and Responsibilities Workshop emilywebber.co.uk/the-4ds-role...

Big Software Procurement Lifecycles 1: Award a $500 million contract to do the thing 2: Declare that there will now be a Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 3: Declare that there will now also be Phase 1a, Phase 1b, and Phase 1c 4: Declare that the project is scoped down to Phase 1a Success!

This guidance is a classic of the nhse genre and the usual missed opportunity.

I have officially opened an Etsy store... ...for my excellent wife's circus typography digital art prints. They make great letter art birthday gifts for kids. Good wall decor. Many children's bedrooms. Anyway, also a chance to test out my SEO skills. www.etsy.com/shop/circusl...

New NHS App roadmap just dropped. digital.nhs.uk/services/nhs...

Sharepoint users www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“‘innovation’ evokes a search for novel solutions (robots, lasers, AI), when what we really need is mostly just hard work focused on a stable set of targets and applied for a long enough period of time.” 🎯🎯🎯

Always enjoy your substacks. Thanks. On this, I think Murphy's where I am at

The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.

Our lab had a #dogathon 🐕 yesterday where we analyzed NYC Open Data on dog licenses. We learned a lot of dog facts, which I’ll share in this thread 🧵 1) Geospatial trends: Cavalier King Charles Spaniels are common in Manhattan; the opposite is true for Yorkshire Terriers.

Brilliant from @mattedgar.bsky.social

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9

Obvs. www.thetimes.com/best-places-...

Notwithstanding what I think may be a couple of transcription errors, this speech by Darren Jones on use of technology in Treasury is a very good speech. He sounds like he knows what he's talking about and that he understands why he's saying what he's saying www.gov.uk/government/s...

Good strategy is making hard choices and NOT doing things, rather than taking the average of all the words and opinions

“There is this terrible misconception that disabled people just take, but actually by taking from us, you prevent us from being able to give – we want to be able to participate in life equally the same as anyone else, and that includes going to work.” Disability campaigner Tanni Gray-Thompson

Posted some reckons on the NHS England restructuring announcements this week www.linkedin.com/posts/chris-...

This is just fantastic. Go Sunderland!!!

Lots of very good introductory materials in this thread 👏😍

James is always worth reading, and this longread is particularly worth the time, especially if you're an optimist about governments taking state capacity seriously.

Walthamstow a woman has been hit by a bus on hoe street outside the Rose and Crown. She’s thankfully ok but traffic backed up due to the scene so please help the police and fire services by avoiding area. Please share to spread word.

Governments must design digital services that work for everyone, not just the digitally connected. 🌍 Public Digital’s Head of Africa, @abisola.bsky.social explored the importance of inclusive digital transformation on our blog. This week, ICT Works featured it on their site. Read it here: 🔗

Saw some posts that NIH and pubmed websites both down… and yep so that’s not at all ominous

For any devs wondering what 18F does (did), here’s its GitHub org page, with 1,210 repos. A few were mine! All the work they did for all their agency partners was open source. Public money should produce public software, for public inspection. Those days are over, starting today.

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million. A thread about 18F:

The DHSC press release is also better coverage: www.gov.uk/government/n...

Thousands of UK customers are facing online banking issues today. Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland were down for a part of the day, preventing usual customer access. These outages show how disruptive accidental tech failures can be, as @daverog.bsky.social explored recently.