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Week note – new work, collaborators, and AI for public good
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The health record keeps the score – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-11-22-the-record-keeps-the-score/
9 days ago
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David Gilbert
about 2 months ago
"Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is basically a sentient Facebook page"
@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
nails it once again in the latest
@garbageday.email
newsletter
www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-...
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The Great Dumbening
Read to the end for it’s Tronin’ time
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-dumbening
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Week note – more about personalising health recommendations and a little bit about AI
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Limbic Öpik – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-10-11-limbik-opik
about 2 months ago
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Week note: - co‑ordinating teams - definitions of personalisations - co-design - health kiosks
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High pressure days – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-10-04-high-pressure-days/
about 2 months ago
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Week note – forcing myself to design with constraints I’ve made up
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Fictional constraints – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-09-28-fictional-constraints/
2 months ago
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Week note – prototyping and working in a complex organisation.
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The system around us – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-09-20-the-system-around-us/
2 months ago
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If you’re cooking and you want to make sure it turns into a duck, your oven needs to be hot enough to trigger the mallard reaction
3 months ago
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Week note – what do we lose when we outsource
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Big yellow taxi – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-09-07-big-yellow-taxi/
3 months ago
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Week note – transformation is about taking responsibility
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From the air – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-08-26-from-the-air/
3 months ago
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Week note – Nexialist: - simplicity vs authenticity - anticipating edge cases - observing success
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Nexialist – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-08-16-nexialist/
3 months ago
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Week note – Doing the hard work to pretend it’s simple Using prototypes to illustrate what we’re working towards and worrying about the level of fiction required.
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Doing the hard work to pretend it’s simple – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-08-09-doing-the-hard-work-to-pretend-its-simple/
4 months ago
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Week note – R and R – defining my role and some other things
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R and R – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-07-25-r-and-r/
4 months ago
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Aesop Rocky is the best smelling rapper
4 months ago
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Mike Gallagher
4 months ago
a new blog post from me and
@frankieroberto.com
on the NHS' design matters blog on why we're putting a lot of effort into both improving the NHS prototyping kit and making it easier for designers to use it
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Why we are reinvesting in the NHS prototype kit - NHS England Digital
Frankie and Mike explain why we revived the NHS prototype kit, the benefits of prototyping in code and how digital teams in the NHS can get started using it.
https://digital.nhs.uk/blog/design-matters/2025/why-we-are-reinvesting-in-the-nhs-prototype-kit
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Tim Berners-lee’s favourite sitcom is My Name is URL
4 months ago
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Week note – the design of systems – all jokes are the same, just with different words.
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The design of a system – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-07-19-the-design-of-a-system/
4 months ago
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Week note – valuing aesthetics
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Alignment – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-07-15-alignment/
5 months ago
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Week note – Scale model. Personal care, impersonal systems.
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Scale model – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-07-05-scale-model/
5 months ago
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Sarah Drummond
5 months ago
Welcome to the new Section 28. Unofficially implemented by Reform. So angry I could scream right now. As a reminder, Kent County Council, despite Section 28 being taken off legislative books in 2003, as voted for by parliament, maintained their own version until 2010.
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Kent council bans transgender books in children’s library section
KCC says the move came after a
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6257p2vry3o?app-referrer=deep-link
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Week note – Pulp friction – health vs pizza
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Pulp friction – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-06-29-pulp-friction/
5 months ago
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Week note – assumptions we’ve made and other people have made about how to help people improve their health
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Tangentland – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-06-21-tangentland/
5 months ago
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Week note – service models and dystopia
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How soon is now? – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-06-06-how-soon-is-now/
6 months ago
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Clara Greo
6 months ago
We need to be better at having conversations about the equity and justice implications of our use of AI. I'm working on a set of 10 equity and justice reflection prompts for teams who are using or considering AI. (prompts in thread)
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10 equity and justice prompts for AI
We need to be better at having conversations about the equity and justice implications of our use of AI. I'm working on a set of 10 equity and justice reflection prompts for teams who are using or…
https://claragreo.com/posts/10-equity-and-justice-prompts-for-ai/
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Mat Johnson
6 months ago
@danhon.com
's back, and thank you Dan, this chimes hard in NHS land -
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s19e11: Your Model is Naive and it’s Not The Territory
0.0 Context Setting Friday, May 30, at the Code for America Summit in a hotel in Washington, D.C. I am in, fittingly, a hallway. I am also jetlagged. There...
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s19e11-your-model-is-naive-and-its-not-the/
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Mike Gallagher
6 months ago
a weeknote, continuing on from last week. something to do with frames of reference and navigating conflicting worldviews.
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Mike Gallagher: The sum of its parts?
Weeknote, w/c 19 May 2025
https://mikegallagher.org/posts/the-sum-of-its-parts/
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Week note – UCD folk and some of the barriers people face getting health support
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People’s thoughts and feelings – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-05-24-peoples-thoughts-and-feelings/
6 months ago
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Week note – shipping services vs platforms, working with ‘the app’, supporting local health and an AI health coach.
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Resting curmudgeon face – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-05-17-resting-curmudgeon-face/
7 months ago
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Frankie Roberto
7 months ago
My colleague Caroline has written about how we’re trying to break silos at the NHS by building a service catalogue:
medium.com/@carolinefin...
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Breaking siloes with a service catalogue
Date: 16 May 2025
https://medium.com/@carolinefinucane/breaking-siloes-with-a-service-catalogue-515b41332c9a?source=social.linkedin
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Week note – self-serve health assessments, business cases and working with vendors
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More water in the Ribena – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-05-10-more-water-in-the-ribena/
7 months ago
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something about this resonates with me
add a skeleton here at some point
7 months ago
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Week note – roles, nudges and mapping prevention
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The Apocryphal Zumba Class – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-05-05-the-apocryphal-zumba-class/
7 months ago
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Week note – weird things about the civil service and end‑to‑end service design
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What happens in Mural, stays in Mural – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-04-25-what-happens-in-mural/
7 months ago
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Irina Pencheva
7 months ago
A year ago I started at NHS England. And what a year it has been for me. I’ve written about it here
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A year at NHSE
I’ve been a Head of Product at NHS England for a year now and this blog post covers my reflections on the past year (and what a year it has been!).
https://irinapencheva.com/2025/04/24/a-year-at-nhse/
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Fortnight note – prevention risks and types of service designer
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From workshop to workshop – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-04-18-workshop-to-workshop/
8 months ago
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This week I've been thinking about how teams work together and organisational culture.
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Potato, potato – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-04-04-potato-potato/
8 months ago
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Week note – Ill communication
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Ill communication – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-03-28-ill-communication/
8 months ago
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Week note – mapping and roles:
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You don’t always need to go from left to right – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-03-21-left-to-right/
8 months ago
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This week in the world’s largest quango – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-03-14-worlds-largest-quango/
9 months ago
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the slogan for the dairy ice cream accident prevention society is - better safe than sorbet
9 months ago
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To 3D print Derek Jacobi, you need a CAD-file
9 months ago
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This week I’ve been worrying about how much time I spend thinking about alignment, continuing to shape a discovery into health assessments and getting closer to the Personalised Prevention Platform team.
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Everyone wants a map – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-03-08-everyone-wants-a-map/
9 months ago
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Inspired by
@frankieroberto.com
I'm attempting to keep week notes, starting with a summary of my first 5 months at NHS England. Thanks to
@georginawatts.bsky.social
for her session at gov camp that helped my confidence to post and
@irinap.bsky.social
for support.
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5 months at NHS England – Ralph Hawkins
https://ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weeknotes/2025-02-28-5-months-at-nhse/
9 months ago
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Amy McNichol
12 months ago
🌟 Here is your last-post-before-Christmas warning!🌟 We have a few copies of the I Thought About That A Lot book left (like, I can count them on my fingers). If you'd like one in time for Christmas, order your copy before 2pm tomorrow (Friday 20 December).
www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/shop
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This year I thought a lot about how to turn
@amymcnichol.bsky.social
’s fantastic project into a book. Really happy with how it turned out. There are some copies left to buy at
www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/shop
Follow
@allconsuming.bsky.social
to read this year’s essays
12 months ago
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Amy McNichol
about 1 year ago
You can now pre-order the I Thought About That A Lot book!
ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/shop
It includes 23 essays that we’ve published on
ithoughtaboutthatalot.com
between 2020 and 2023. As well as 3 that will be part of this year's advent calendar.
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Shop – I thought about that a lot
A new anonymous essay published every day in December in the countdown to Christmas.
https://www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/shop
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