Week note – new work, collaborators, and AI for public good ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

"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-...

Week note – more about personalising health recommendations and a little bit about AI ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

Week note: - co‑ordinating teams - definitions of personalisations - co-design - health kiosks ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

Week note – forcing myself to design with constraints I’ve made up ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

Week note – prototyping and working in a complex organisation. ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

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

Week note – what do we lose when we outsource ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

Week note – transformation is about taking responsibility ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

Week note – Nexialist: - simplicity vs authenticity - anticipating edge cases - observing success ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

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. ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

Week note – R and R – defining my role and some other things ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

Aesop Rocky is the best smelling rapper

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 digital.nhs.uk/blog/design-...

Tim Berners-lee’s favourite sitcom is My Name is URL

Week note – the design of systems – all jokes are the same, just with different words. ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

Week note – valuing aesthetics ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

Week note – Scale model. Personal care, impersonal systems. ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

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. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Week note – Pulp friction – health vs pizza ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

Week note – assumptions we’ve made and other people have made about how to help people improve their health ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

Week note – service models and dystopia ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

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) claragreo.com/posts/10-equ...

@danhon.com 's back, and thank you Dan, this chimes hard in NHS land - newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s19e...

a weeknote, continuing on from last week. something to do with frames of reference and navigating conflicting worldviews. mikegallagher.org/posts/the-su...

Week note – UCD folk and some of the barriers people face getting health support ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

Week note – shipping services vs platforms, working with ‘the app’, supporting local health and an AI health coach. ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

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

Week note – self-serve health assessments, business cases and working with vendors ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

something about this resonates with me

Week note – roles, nudges and mapping prevention ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

Week note – weird things about the civil service and end‑to‑end service design ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

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...

Fortnight note – prevention risks and types of service designer ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

This week I've been thinking about how teams work together and organisational culture. ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

Week note – Ill communication ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

Week note – mapping and roles: ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

Weeknote ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

the slogan for the dairy ice cream accident prevention society is - better safe than sorbet

To 3D print Derek Jacobi, you need a CAD-file

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. ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

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. ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...

🌟 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

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

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.