My colleague Caroline has written about how we’re trying to break silos at the NHS by building a service catalogue: medium.com/@carolinefin... 💙

Over the last two weeks, I've thought a lot about how hard it is to deliver effective public health and prevention nudges through digital, especially when so much is about influencing and 'boosting' the wider environment (physical, economic, political and social). irinapencheva.com/2025/05/11/n...

Post is here! www.timpaul.co.uk/posts/could-...

What’s up Bluesky, I’m starting to look for my next professional opportunity. If you are looking for someone community, co-design or collaboration shaped, please get in touch 💬

A year ago I started at NHS England. And what a year it has been for me. I’ve written about it here irinapencheva.com/2025/04/24/a...

Gangsta sanding with unicorns 🦄

Love it when kids say profound things. Earlier, my 3.5yo asked me if all the words and letters go into the eraser of her whiteboard pen once they’re rubbed off. Where do deleted words go?

Wrote to complain about the horrible cotton candy machine monstrosity in the community leisure centre and got told it’s a ‘pilot’ and they ‘value’ my feedback. Undertone was - we don’t care, this makes someone some money. Who should I reach out to next - councillors, MP, local community groups?

New feature (or bug) at the local community leisure centre and gym. What’s wrong with public health summed up in one picture.

More people need to understand the massive negative externalities - and huge bloody bills - imposed on the entire world wide web by LLMs. The sense of entitlement to other people's labour and other organisations's hugely increased monthly overheads of the tech bros is nothing short of depraved.

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

So glad I get to work with this good cookie on a mission that matters. Thanks for documenting what we’re doing in Personalised Prevention so excellently too! Another set of weeknotes to watch out for 👀