Weeknote: 26 to 30 June 2023
What did I enjoy? A chance to meet with members of the 111 online team in person as part of their monthly team day in London. I enjoyed the show and tell, including a proper live demo by one of the...
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As part of the NHS 75th anniversary year, I volunteered to give a talk to the year 10 students at a high school in Bradford. They listened well and asked good questions. These are my notes, more or...
View ArticleWeeknote: 24 to 28 July 2023
Back to work after a much-needed 2-week holiday in southern Germany. What did I enjoy? Being back in the office, refreshed after my holiday. The new NHS England Leeds office is a great place to work,...
View ArticleWeeknote: 31 July to 4 August 2023
What did I enjoy? A session in which Laura and Imogen talked us through the approach to prioritisation that they've been working on for our portfolio. This has been quite a long time coming, because...
View ArticleThe humans of digital transformation – a talk for Digital Government North,...
Back on the in-person speaking trail after quite a long time away, I was invited to speak at Digital Government North about "the human side of digital transformation". I liked the way the organisers...
View ArticleBack to weeknotes after a hiatus: 23 to 27 October 2023
I'm on the sofa (terrible posture) with a cup of coffee and my laptop typing out the first set of weeknotes I've published since the end of August. I didn't mean to take a break, but it's OK that I...
View ArticleWeeknote: 30 October to 3 November 2023
What did you enjoy? Friday was the one clear, dry, calm day of the week in Leeds, so I took the opportunity to get back on my bike. In previous years I've struggled to keep up the cycling to work habit...
View ArticleWeeknote: 6 to 10 November 2023
Autumnal scene on my walk to the bus stop Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? I spent Tuesday morning at Google's King's Cross office in London with members of the government digital...
View ArticleWeeknote: 13 to 17 November 2023
View from the train along the Medway on my way to visit South East Coast Ambulance Service Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? A visit to South East Coast Ambulance Service's new...
View ArticleWeeknote: 20 to 24 November 2023
View from Quarry House, where I worked for the day on Monday What did you enjoy? The London leg of our "welcome to Product & Platforms" events. I was pleased that colleagues came into the office...
View ArticleFortnightnote: 2 to 12 January 2024
A New Year's Day trip to the Museum of Power near Maldon, Essex I enjoyed the quiet days at the start of the year, and while the sparkle of Christmas is lovely, I also appreciated the space and calm...
View ArticleWeeknote: 15 to 20 January 2024
First bike ride of 2024 took me to a garden centre What did you enjoy? An in-person meeting in Leeds with colleagues looking at how NHS 111 will evolve in the future. We ran through the vision and...
View ArticleWeeknote: 22 to 26 January 2024
111 online link shown in the new design for the NHS App Five days working in the Leeds hub, including an in-person meeting of the Digital Urgent & Emergency Care (UEC) leadership team. Looking at...
View ArticleWeeknote: 29 January to 2 February 2024
Joseph Moxon, 'Practical perspective; or Perspective made easie', on display at Leeds University What did you enjoy? Seeing my team members collaborating with colleagues from across the new NHS England...
View ArticleWeeknote: 5 to 9 February 2024
The brutalist former Bank of England headquarters on my walk to the Leeds office What did you enjoy? A workshop in London to look together at the shared roadmaps for work on the NHS App and other...
View ArticleWeeknote: 4 to 8 March 2024
More pics from my week in Taiwan on my Mastodon feed Back from a week-and-a-bit of leave and barely a moment since to pause and reflect. Times like this make #weeknotes extra valuable. What was hard?...
View ArticleWeeknote: 11 to 15 March 2024
View from the Leeds hub What did I enjoy? A long but rewarding day on Wednesday. I got the early train to London to discuss shared objectives with my colleagues in the new NHS England Product and...
View ArticleWeeknote: 18 to 22 March 2024
Trip to Cartwright Hall, Bradford On the bright side I spent time in both our London offices as well as the Leeds one which is my usual base. At all three locations, I managed impromptu chats with...
View ArticleWeeknote: 25 to 28 March 2024
A four day week, but we packed a lot in, and much of it not appropriate to rehearse in my public weeknotes. Some highlights The picture at the top of the post shows the chocolate bunnies I bought for...
View ArticleWeeknote: 2 to 5 April 2024
Beginning of Spring An undocumented feature of my long-term weeknote habit is that every now and then WordPress related posts reminds me of another week in the dim distant past when I was rambling...
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