Here's an example of the amazing open source work that is coming out at vastly increased pace since the advent of high-quality LLM-assisted development voxtype.io Free, open source, Voice-To-Text with local models. The NHS could AND SHOULD be building on top of this kind of stuff, in-house.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

“Palestine Action is the first civil disobedience organisation that does not advocate for violence to be proscribed by the British Government as a ‘terrorist’ group, in a Trumpian abuse of power which would have seen this Labour Government proscribe the Suffragettes": Ammori.

Meta are never afraid to say the quiet bit out loud, but also, um WTAF?

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Pluralistic: Doctors' union may yet save the NHS from Palantir (12 Feb 2026) pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/p... Cory Doctorow smashes out another great article. The Pluralistic newsletter is a vital source of updates and thought leadership, you should ALL subscribe.

YES!!!! This is the BMA on form. "If it is to retain the confidence of NHS staff and patients, the UK Government must begin to remove the NHS from Palantir’s technical architecture at pace." 31 January 2026, Tom Dolphin - BMA UK council chair www.bmj.com/content/392/... @opendemocracy.net

Really nice to see politicians that are on the right side of history as regards #Palantir. As someone who's been campaigning against their award of the #FDP contract since about 2021, it's nice to have some backup now.

Palantir’s track record speaks for itself. They should be nowhere near our NHS!

whatsinmynow.substack.com/p/whats-in-m... The lime juicer really is life changing.

I know there are a LOT of 'Clinicians Who Code' out there - but there doesn't seem to be any single place on the web to go and find them... Does anyone know of 'the' place? For now I've created a forum section in OpenHealthHub for them - please do share! openhealthhub.org/t/coding-too...

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped: Vibe Engineering for Clinicians who Code - Part 3 - Refactoring a clinical app to Flutter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A722vUQzPGc I am freelance, and always for hire! If you need apps, forums, clinical software, clinical inform...

"These are not the actions of a state seeking peace; they are the latest extension of a long-upheld system that denies Palestinians the right to determine their own future." - @elliechowns.bsky.social Israel's expanding control over the West Bank cannot go on. The UK Government must act.

I’m at an event in Westminster where a certain Andy Burnham has said it it “time to call to an end this era where politics got too close to wealth, too seduced by the notion that deregulated markets would provide the solution, when in fact they have been the problem.”

A group of volunteers have been running @nhshackday.com since 2012. In a crazy world, it is all about coming together with common purpose to solve problems in our health service. Please reshare this post about #30 in Cardiff Mar 21/22. We would love to have you join us. ti.to/nhshackday/3...

I just signed a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped: NHS Open Source Policies - All Quietly Removed… Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU7bYSCwurs Original EDH episode “NHS Open Source Policies - All Quietly Removed…” https://youtu.be/dQqFNP39s...

If we want digital sovereignty, we should dismantle the copyright law which protects US tech from interoperable competition. They already broke their side of the bargain. It will keep us secure. It will even benefit the economy, for those who only care about money. pluralistic.net/2026/01/30/z...

We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy! Our over-reliance on foreign tech giants is a huge risk to our security and resilience when faced with Donald Trump’s ever increasing belligerence. Companies like Palantir have no place in our critical digital infrastructure.

A vitally important message from Green MP Sian Berry. #NoToPalantir #VoteGreen join.greenparty.org.uk

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped: Where Are All The NHS Tech Nerds? - with Kevin Monk of SARD-JV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ukif7mN3Y This week I’m chatting with Kevin Monk, CEO of SARD-JV, a company with 12 years experience sellin...

I merged a mature and articulate pull request from my 19-year-old CS-student son into one of my open source projects today. That felt like an important moment. 🙌 I remember when he was learning #Scratch in the @codeclub.bsky.social at @leighhackspace.bsky.social - now he's a self-taught #Rustacean!

I just signed a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped: Ming Tang, Interim Chief Digital and Information Officer, to Leave NHS England https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATYeFY_NNBs A short ‘Marcus-only’ episode following the announced departure of Ming Tang from NHS England as ...

This open source project for a one-page, URL-query customisable calendar/year planner is absolutely cool. So simple, yet incredibly useful for so many people. Ideal for Hipster PDA abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?la... Source: github.com/abetusk/neat... HT: @recomendo.bsky.social web: Recomendo.com

Imagine living next to 25,000 tonnes of rotting, rat-infested rubbish. This is the reality for families in Bickershaw right now—and the land is owned by the King. We’re calling on the King to take responsibility and clear this toxic mess once and for all. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ki...

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped: PRIMIS, PHCSG and more - with John Robinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLhVOA-jvbM This episode I’m talking to Dr John Robinson, GP, clinical informatician, and former chair of the...

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

This video is very very important. THE BOTTLENECK IN DEVELOPMENT HAS MOVED. Stop organising 'waterfall' meetings to decide ever detail before starting. In the time you've built a "stakeholder engagement cast of thousands" you could have working 5 prototypes of the app. youtu.be/hpDC29JdgjI?...

Scotland & England fans: the 2026 World Cup is set to be hosted in Trump’s USA. We can’t stay silent. Sign the petition calling for a boycott unless it's moved, to protect players & fans. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bo...

I wonder if the kind of people who use "Digital" as an unqualified synonym for "Awesome", "Good", and "Better"... also have a vinyl collection.

🚀 NEW on We ❤️ Open Source 🚀 When software is medicine, closed code becomes a health risk. Marcus Baw (@marcusbaw.com) says open source is the ethical path forward for healthcare. Read more: allthingsopen.org/articles/ope... #WeLoveOpenSource #HealthTech #OpenSource #TechForGood

Found this interesting article. I wonder if it any of it might be the kind of thing that could be helpful for the future of managing dependencies on what I umbrella-term "Healthcare Technology Knowledge Artifacts" - like #openehr Archetypes and #FHIR resources? nesbitt.io/2026/01/22/a...

Y'see folks? Y'see what you're voting for with Reform? Those of you who are poor and think that it's foreigners who are ruining your lives just can't see that it's people like him who can quite happily afford US style health insurance while you get dumped in life's skip if you're ill.

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped: Systems Thinking and Neurodiversity - with Mona Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pkOM5tp4B0 This week I’m chatting to Mona Johnson, who is, as she describes herself: “a GP by background who...

NHS Corporate Explainer #1 "Developed In Partnership With" This means the NHS org takes on all financial risk and provides endless free clinical consultancy. And the private company develops their product, owns all IP, and charges the org back for the software they helped develop.

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped: How To Fix A National Clinical Safety Issue - REDUX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhNF18yHNOE This video was originally released in 2020 on the YouTube channel of the now-defunct Faculty of C...

NHS Corporate Explainer #1 "Developed In Partnership With" This means the NHS org takes on all financial risk and provides endless free clinical consultancy. And the private company develops their product, owns all IP, and charges the org back for the software they helped develop.

Beyond disappointed with anyone I work with who supports the FDP and SPR after we witnessed the route to policy. It never solved a technical issue.

@adhdpathfinding.org.uk www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

You don't hear too much about "Project Fear" these days do you? Not now all those things, and worse, seem to be happening... It's almost as if us Remainers were right.

The Met Office weather app has been updated and it fits in nicely with the enshittification efforts of 2026 to just make everything that bit worse. All my saved locations from around the world gone and its usability has dropped to the point I’ll just get another app instead.

www.404media.co/elite-the-pa... #Palantir have no business at all working with the #NHS. NHS England need to wake up. The Federated Data Platform is a joke of a project bought to satisfy the vanity of a former govt of Tory grifters (or perhaps to suppress some Kompromat). #NoPalantirInTheNHS

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped: "Vibe Engineering" for Clinicians Who Code - Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as9R-vStt8s “Vibe Engineering” is possibly a little bit of a misnomer now, in that it derives from “vibe codi...

The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... Our health service is becoming increasingly dependent on US technology - but can we trust it?

A great article by @rorycj.bsky.social about UK Healthcare's dependence on Americal IT infrastructure, and how that could be jeopardised by any falling-out between UK/NATO and USA - as seems now likely as Trump's invasion of Greenland seems inevitable. rorycellanjones.substack.com/p/can-uk-hea...

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped: Where Are The Missing Healthcare APIs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1HPMSd_u8c I explain the concepts of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) by comparing them to inventio...

🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

FTSE 100 bosses have already earned a year’s pay in just 3 days 😳 It’s time to tackle extreme pay gaps. Sign the petition now and support a new tax to tackle extreme pay. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fa...