We’re looking for a venue partner who can help with physical space to support this open, community-driven, and free-to-attend event. 🗓️ When: A Saturday in Spring 2026 (Flexible) 👥 Size: 100-120 people 📍 Where: Accessible UK location, ideally Leeds Please get in touch! ukhealthcamp.com/venue

If you're an organisation with a great event space, and you like what UK Health Camp is about, please get in touch and help us put on an event next year!

Feels great to be back at #ProductTank London after a bit of a hiatus from getting along to meetups. Looking forward to hearing from @martycagan.bsky.social and @bfgmartin.bsky.social #PTNov25

If you think this is US-only, it's not. If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't. If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is. If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can. If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.

Enjoying the thought-provoking final @sdingov.bsky.social keynote - Steph Wright on AI in public services: Responsibility, realism, and public good. “The majority of AI discourse today is framed through the lens of inevitability - but at this point not involving AI is still a choice.”

In a session @sdingov.bsky.social on the NHS App with @jiggott.bsky.social and @mikegallagher.bsky.social getting my regular reminder of how impressive a design achievement it is given the *absolute state* of the systems and services landscape it has to try and bring together under the hood….

Do I have any contacts here with links to the Edinburgh University Schools of Medicine or Informatics?

Back in Edinburgh bright and early for another @sdingov.bsky.social recharge 🙂

Save the Date for the next NHS Hack Day!! 🤓❤️🏥 🗓️ 11th and 12th of October 2025 📍 In Belfast 🎟️ Join our mailing list for a notification when tickets get released: nhshackday.com/subscribe

It's a beautiful day for #NHSHD28 in Cardiff today! Pitches are done, and teams are all forming!

Bridge over the Singapore River

Ticket bought for @sdingov.bsky.social 2025 in Edinburgh 🎟️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I’m also shortly looking for a new G6 head of digital portfolio and ops for our 48-strong digital team, DM me if interested. Leeds and London based

Had a lovely time waving my arms around and taking about how much I love the web at #ProductForThePeople A great event run by great people. (And a little reminder of the Big Give which starts next week.)

“AI is terrible at fact-checking - but it’s amazing at boring magic” (paraphrased) by @mrdudders.bsky.social @fullfact.bsky.social #ProductForThePeople

@jukes.ie and Debbie kicking off #ProductForThePeople in Bristol

Any peeps I know heading to Bristol for #ProductForThePeople this Thursday?

Patient records and the NHS App are in the news again. Me and @mattstibbs.bsky.social wrote down some thoughts. TLDR: the perfect architectural approach won’t solve for fundamental environmental challenges that need addressing. public.digital/pd-insights/...

Why a shared NHS patient record is hard, and what needs to change to make it a reality. Written by @e17chrisfleming.bsky.social and @mattstibbs.bsky.social, who've both been at the sharp end of NHS data sharing. public.digital/pd-insights/...

Men should read -> “There is a scandal about HRT – but it’s not the one Panorama thinks it is” - the NHS still suffers from a patriarchal bias that still undervalues women’s health (in particular reproductive health). www.independent.co.uk/health-and-f...

Might be some umbrellas inverting today..

@iainmoore.bsky.social @amcunningham.bsky.social @blu3id.bsky.social please repost! 🙂

We're holding another NHS Hack Day!! 🤓❤️🏥 🗓️ on 12th and 13th October 📍 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London 🎟️ Tickets at nhshackday.com Held in collaboration with CW Innovation Supported by DrDoctor and Patchwork Health Can't wait to see you there! 👋

The NHS Federated Data Platform programme has started an email bulletin - people can subscribe to it via this link: confirmsubscription.com/h/d/B1F8A66A...

NHS Constitution - 10 year review www.gov.uk/government/c...

When your music perfectly beat-matches to your stride on your morning commute, it just feels like it’s going to be one of the better days.

Off to Digital Tuesday and Wednesday next week - anyone I know going to be there? :)

Don't fall into the truth gap! Inspire people with truthful narratives instead. I've written about how leaders in organisations should tell stories (and by stories, I mean strategies, business cases, annual plans, marketing etc etc) public.digital/2024/02/27/w...

Oooo this is really good from @daverog.bsky.social about the narrative leaders use to talk about 'the work'.

I can code, I am pretty good at understanding complex technical concepts, I can work across macro and micro levels of a problem. But for the life of me, can I make Powerpoint SmartArt do the actual thing I want it to? It is completely non-sensical.

Internet help! I need to record some presentations this afternoon. I have no idea what video / audio settings to use for a reasonable recording that can be easily worked with afterwards. Can anyone advise? Formats? Bitrates? Using OBS (unless I should use something else!) 🙏🏻

April 1st gets earlier every year technology.blog.gov.uk/2024/02/14/a...

Enjoying a bit of late evening fredagsmys in a Malmö coffee shop ☕️

From Farringdon, through security and in departures at Gatwick within 50 minutes - that’s really cool.

A handful of highlights from another immensely rewarding year leading health and care at Public Digital. I feel so lucky to work with such talented and committed people. medium.com/@e17chrisfle...

Friday blogging: digital transformation in a setting wher your users Do Not Trust You. drblangry.notion.site/Getting-trus...

A write-up of a spontaneous ramble about roadmapping I gave at an event the other day. It's probably more useful than the forever-unfinished prior version, which will never see the light of day (given that it hasn't over the last few months). www.leaningforward.com/blog/2023/11...

Today was definitely a "I wish I'd actually finished reading all those excellent books I bought about doing good work" kind of day. It's a bit like regretting not putting money into your savings regularly.

I’m looking for blog posts or case studies, examples on ‘personas’ and why they are useful or not. I’m not a fan but I’d like to articulate this better and be able to explain the pros and cons. Anyone out here have something useful I can have a look? 🙏

I still do not understand the MS Teams tenant / organisation / account model. Why do some links prompt me to change the org I'm active within under the same account? And why do my chats only exist in one org and not another... it's very confusing!

Here's my monthnote for October: weeknot.es/monthnote-oc...

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

This is really excellent. Proper, 'made made me think' excellent.

As a service designer, well any sort of designer or ucd person, don’t underestimate being at the heart of things. New thing by me: grillopress.github.io/2023/10/21/d...

Blog post from NHS England today: “Taking patients with us on the Federated Data Platform” www.england.nhs.uk/blog/taking-...

Is there any good thinking / discussion out there about approaches to providing training for users in the use of specialist professional tools? In contrast to say public facing services where we would expect the principle of "it should be easy enough to use that people don't need training".

Does anyone recognise this: "Ah, reminder, 2 minutes until my 15:00 call. I'll just finish what I'm doing and hop on..." *Do stuff. Look up.* "Dammit, 15:03" *Scrabble to jump on call* If so, I've just discovered an app called "In Your Face" on the Mac App Store and it is EXACTLY what I needed

This sounds like an interesting idea! Given how hard I find it to keep a consistent habit of reading, I'm looking forward to seeing whether having it delivered in bits makes a difference...

To identify user research findings, you need to distill lots of information into meaningful patterns. Do it with your team, and do it iteratively. And you'll rapidly synthesise your way to clear findings that the entire team has helped shape. www.katherinewastell.com/blog/2023/co...

I started as a product lead on the NHS Federated Data Platform team this week. Lots of people have asked me "What is NHS federated data platform?" On Day 3, still got lots to learn before I can answer that myself, but this prospectus isn't a bad place to start: www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...