Nigel Farage & Alex Phillips have been awfully quiet about Nathan Gill pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in European parliament and articles. Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.

When asked in 2002 what she was most proud of, Margaret Thatcher replied: "Tony Blair" And he's still peddling neolib free-market conservatism in 2025 via the TBI, and enriching himself and his family while doing so.

🔴 KPMG being paid £8million to encourage English hospitals to adopt Palantir tech But government refusing to give us info about KPMG deal Labour MP and campaigners have decried secrecy and called on gov't to "ditch this dirty company” New on DfS: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-governm...

Here a thing you can do to stay turning the tide: Make sure everyone you know who is a gig worker, member of a union, or involved in running a union reads this report: www.etuc.org/sites/defaul... HT the awesome Cory Doctorow, whose email newsletter is the single best source in my inbox

oh right, 2 million in ... 48 hours? I'm not really in favour of this sort of thing any more, but bravo

Absolutely fucking NO to mandatory ID on privacy grounds. Also: Why does identification mean a 'card'? Clearly the tiny minds in Whitehall think it's a card, hence the name: "BritCard" But the world went digital, um, a while back. 'Cards' are for your grandparents.

It's mostly because of *gestures wildly around at everything* but yeah, been there, done that, my friend. Cory Doctorow coined "enshittification" to refer to online services specifically, but these days it can apply to SO MANY other things. 😭

Sadly in the NHS it's much higher than 20%... www.youtube.com/watch?v=51u8... NHS orgs are completely paralysed by trying to discover what "Neighbourhood Ways Of Working" means, without admitting that nobody in the meeting knows.

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped: NHSbuntu - with Rob Dyke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu0A8v_OqC4 Rob and I do a detailed review of the - ‘two bottle of wine problem’ - NHSbuntu project which we ...

'Keir Starmer's Timid Refusal to Nationalise Failing Water Companies is a Symptom of a Government Cast Adrift' – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/06/06/t... Damn right, Clive Lewis.

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped: GP2GP, SNOMED, the FCI and more with John Williams, GP and Clinical Informatician https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqILSLRkNx0 This episode is a little longer than usual, but I’m hoping still of interest to listeners/viewers...

If billionaires drove prosperity we should expect to see a correlation between the explosion of billionaire wealth and wage growth… …but we don’t We see the opposite This is wealth extraction, not wealth creation.

It's vital for the UK to understand digital sovereignty as we enter the AI era. As Mike Bracken writes in the Financial Times this week, the UK risks relinquishing control over policymaking by depending on monopolist international platforms. www.ft.com/content/a4f1...

public.digital/pd-insights/... Short, very clear, and absolutely correct blog post from Mike Bracken. With a very clear warning, too. We're already sliding towards a situation in which health data will be easy to misuse by the next (likely right wing proto-fascist) government.

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped: NHSbuntu - with Rob Dyke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu0A8v_OqC4 Rob and I do a detailed review of the - ‘two bottle of wine problem’ - NHSbuntu project which we ...

If you're tired of the usual UK Digital Health conferences - full of salesy bullshit, vacuous 'networking opportunities', and unacccountable vague futurist drivel, then you'll LOVE that there's an alternative - Let's Talk Digital - See you there! letsdodigital.org/conferences/...

Today I am deleting my X.com (Xwitter, Twitter) account permanently. I should have done it years ago, and indeed I hardly use it now, but I think Musk's weekend address to a far right rally is a final straw. #deletedMyX

If you are a professional involved in managing Healthcare Transition (from paediatric care to adult care) you might be interested in our NIHR Mind The Gap Healthcare Transition Community Of Practice mindthegap-transition.org Signup is subject to approval, but we're excited to grow this community.

Direct and correct. Damn, this challenging of the media is so overdue. Zack is rapidly creating what could be a genuine home for millions of people desperate for common sense government. Bravo Zack.

I wonder if there will come a day when AoMRC Chair Dr Jeanette Dickson might regret having allowed herself to be pressurised by NHSE into publicly endorsing the Palantir NHS Federated Data Platform - with Alex Karp endorsing the same announcement... www.england.nhs.uk/2023/11/new-...

I wonder if there will come a day when AoMRC Chair Dr Jeanette Dickson might regret having allowed herself to be pressurised by NHSE into publicly endorsing the Palantir NHS Federated Data Platform - with Alex Karp endorsing the same announcement... www.england.nhs.uk/2023/11/new-...

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...

Presumably at some point the US will use export controls + the fact many health systems use American software to similar effect. e.g. limiting use of US software in relation to reproductive rights / mRNA

“In April 2025, Starmer was instrumental in continuing Palantir’s capture of crucial digital infrastructure in UK public institutions, he oversaw Coventry City Council’s signing of a £500,000 deal with Palantir for a "strategic AI platform"”

☠️Europe has got to wake up and do better. News and arts depend on advertising. This sector is worth *billions* to Europe's economy, and Google has drained the value from it for years. A fine can't prise open the market. To balk even at that? Speeches about sovereignty are fine words until we act.

It's a sad thing to see the Professional Record Standards Body essentially being shut down by NHS England. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/09/nhs-... However the PRSB just clearly never seemed to get the memo that they needed to output their standards in a technically usable form (eg openEHR/FHIR)

I'm a registered doctor in Ireland as well as UK (part of my post-Brexit hedging) and I just wanted to show UK doctors the difference in tone between the very lovely @medicalcouncilirl.bsky.social Council newsletter and the rather different feel of the GMC... mailchi.mp/1c30b73e2b89...

Pretty disappointing that the EU have released a new Medical Device Manufacturer Incident Report (MIR) and the 'state of the art' of how this is published **IN 2025** is as some kind of Adobe-ONLY XML PDF garbage. Surely we can do better than this? Digital paper? health.ec.europa.eu/medical-devi...

My comparisons between the TV show Mad Men and what's going on with the NHS at the moment: medium.com/@nadiakuftin...

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped: The NHS Single Patient Record - with Sam Smith of MedConfidential https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knp8bQJ47xg Sam Smith from MedConfidential once again joins me on Everything Digital Health to discuss the pr...

My rockabilly 4-piece band "The Sicknotes of Cawood" are playing in Leeds on the Saturday 9th August at Seven Arts in Chapel Allerton, Leeds - would be great to see some of the Leeds Health IT crowd along to see us! www.sevenleeds.co.uk/event/summer...

A new episode of Everything Digital Healthjust dropped: Mark Bailey - Clinician Who Codes and Let's Talk Digital https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12OxPOXcvKA Mark and I discuss some of his 'origin story' as a Clinician Who Codes, as well as the conference...

I'm going to be running a #Discourse forum workshop at #EHRcon25 @openehr.bsky.social - helping our community to get the most out of their forum and getting vital feedback from users about what they need in their online community platform discourse.openehr.org openehr.org/ehrcon25/

Tickets now available for the next NHS Hack Day! 🗓️ 11th and 12th of October 2025 📍 In Belfast 🎟️ nhshackday.com/tickets?src=... Not able to make it to Belfast? Join our mailing list for notification about other events: nhshackday.com/subscribe

It is apparent that NOBODY KNOWS where ICB Digital functions are going to 'sit' when the ICBs are crushed down to 50% of their former size. Luckily we are not ABSOLUTELY DEPENDING on a 'Digital Shift' in order to deliver the #10YearNotAPlan This internal chaos is an existential threat for the NHS.

New episode of Everything Digital Health out! Mark Bailey joins me to talk about #CliniciansWhoCode and his very cool conference Let's Talk Digital @letsdodigital.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Ox...

‘Genteel bias: how the BBC dismantles the Left without us noticing’ BBC right-wing bias is exceptionally dangerous because it is subtle, opaque and covert westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/media/g...

I'm sitting out Digital Health Summer School this year. The talk will all be about the #10YearNotPlan and the total paralysis of NHSE and ICBs because of #NHSRedisorganisation Better instead to watch this response to @chionwurah.bsky.social 's excellent question: "erm... well.... um..."

My MP (York Central) @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social has been suspended from the Parliamentary Labour party for standing by her principles and lprotecting people who need welfare support. bsky.app/profile/rach... I stand by Rachael and I'm disgusted with the Labour Party for taking this action.

We need a wealth tax not a “Britannia Card” Julia Davies - impact investor, entrepreneur, and member of Patriotic Millionaires UK – argues for a wealth tax, not billionaires’ patronage westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/we-n...

Palo Alto does not want Palantir or Tesla! Get that garbage out of the city! Chinga Peter Thiel, Musk, and Alex Karp! #KillerKarp #DataStealThiel #MigraMusk @alexwinter.com @teslatakedown.com www.paloaltoonline.com/community/20...

Already booked for the #ehrcon25 #openEHR 2025 conference in Barcelona, October 16-17 at Barcelona's Centre for Contemporary Culture (CCCB) @openehr.bsky.social All the details are at openehr.org/ehrcon25/ - see you there! I'm driving so I can bring guitars/amps for the #ArchetypesBand interlude!

See you at EHRCON25? - openehr.org/ehrcon25/

The presentations from last year's #openEHR @openehr.bsky.social conference are now publicly available! I can highly recommend this great talk by Dave deBronkart ("ePatient Dave") called "Let Patients Help". Truly inspiring and exciting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da7H...

The Parliamentary Science, Innovation and Technology Committee was super interesting this week - not only did it have a section on NHS England's #Palantir Federated Data Platform with Louis Mosley: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

In the latest episode of Everything Digital Health I chat to Sam Smith of @medconfidential.bsky.social about the NHS Federated Data Platform what is it for? what does it do? why is it so unclear what its purposes are? why are we using #Palantir to build it? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs4B...

Here's a playlist of some of my Must Watch video recommendations - essential for understanding the technical, clinical, and (possibly most importantly) the political background to Digital Health. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The 6th Edition of the OpenUK awards is open for nominations today! openuk.uk/awards/ Spread the word and get nominating!

Open Health Hub is a free and open forum about health tech which I started nearly 10 years ago now... If you have health tech stuff to discuss and can't find anywhere else on the web that it's being discussed, then I can make you a Category on OHH.. openhealthhub.org I'd like to see it used more!

Can anyone explain how the NHS 10-Year Plan That's Not A Plan #nhsnotaplan can reconcile this King's Fund graph showing absolutely flatlined Tory NHS funding for the last decade with their assertion: "Over the past decade, spending has grown" (p130)