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marcusbaw.com
Looks like the NHS Open Source Policy has quietly been taken down and not replaced. Searching the site for Open Source now just turns up stuff from 2013.

www.england.nhs.uk/digitaltechn...

Wayback Machine version
web.archive.org/web/20250814...
www.england.nhs.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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jessrmorley.bsky.social
Calling ALL health data folk: Re UK Health Data Research Service.

The UK gov & Wellcome have pledged up to £600 million to create a HDRS.

Myself & an ace team have been tasked by Wellcome to assess the existing health data ecosystem & identify what is needed to support the HDRS 👇.

Get in touch
October 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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marcusbaw.com
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...
‘e-Patient’ Dave deBronkart: Let Patients Help
YouTube video by openEHR
www.youtube.com
July 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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marcusbaw.com
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/...
Parliamentlive.tv
Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
parliamentlive.tv
July 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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marcusbaw.com
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!
openhealthhub.org
an open forum for discussion of digital health
openhealthhub.org
July 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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samfr.bsky.social
Great graphics - long A&E wait times are caused by a lack of bed not by the number attending. It's counter-intuitive but really important in understanding how to fix the problem!
kurtstat.bsky.social Neil Pettinger @kurtstat.bsky.social · Jul 9
It was good to see @samfr.bsky.social say today that "the main reason for lengthy A&E waiting times is the lack of hospital beds for people who need admitting, which gums up the whole system as they have to keep being treated by emergency staff."
samf.substack.com/p/optimism-o...
#rstats #ggplot2
Two scatterplots side by side. The chart on the left shows the relationship - or - rather - the lack thereof - between the number of A&E attendances per day and each day's four-hour compliance. The chart on the right shows the (quite strong) relationship between the level of crowding in the A&E each day and each day's four-hour compliance.
July 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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nhshackday.com
Save the Date for the next NHS Hack Day!! 🤓❤️🏥

🗓️ 11th and 12th of October 2025
📍 In Belfast

🎟️ Join our mailing list for a notification when tickets get released: nhshackday.com/subscribe
July 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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teraallas.bsky.social
While #AI probably _is_ having an impact on the UK #labour #market, the story is much more nuanced than the one you hear in most media. Vacancies have come down significantly across the board, and not obviously more so in sectors most exposed to AI. #dataisbeautiful
July 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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marcusbaw.com
nhshackday.com

Next NHS Hack Day announced!

Belfast! For the first time an NI NHS Hack Day!

11-12 Oct 2025

Great work @nhshackday.com team
NHS Hack Day | Geeks who love the NHS
nhshackday.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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theifs.bsky.social
Health saw the biggest spending increases out of public services: DHSC day-to-day spending is set to grow by 2.8% in real terms over the Spending Review period, and 2.7% over the whole parliament.

@maxwarner.bsky.social presents on the impact for public services: youtube.com/live/D6Ouus3...
June 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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theifs.bsky.social
"On 11 June, the government will unveil its long-awaited spending review...It’s no exaggeration to say this could be the defining domestic policy moment of this parliament."

@helenmiller.bsky.social previews next week's Spending Review in @theguardian.com today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves’s spending review will reveal what this government’s priorities really are | Helen Miller
For decades, the savings from declining defence spending were effectively ploughed into the health service. Those ‘peace dividend’ days are gone, says incoming IFS director Helen Miller
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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marcusbaw.com
Very excited today to be publishing another episode of #EverythingDigitalHealth featuring @ukpenguin.bsky.social Rachel Dunscombe - CEO of @openehr.bsky.social talking about #openEHR and its future.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjjq...
openEHR Part 1 - openEHR International with CEO Rachel Dunscombe
YouTube video by Everything Digital Health
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May 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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silver-buck.bsky.social
🔍In this latest #HealthTechConnect we turn our attention to the use of AI and how it is assisting health and social care.

📖 Read the report authored by @mustbemistry.bsky.social from @thekingsfund.bsky.social

🔗 www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

#AIinHealthcare #DigitalHealth #NHS #SocialCare
May 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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mustbemistry.bsky.social
Fancy a short weekend read? Here’s my article on the NHS structure changes and the unanswered questions on tech and strategy
mustbemistry.bsky.social Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · May 22
New post – reflections on technology and strategy in light of the emerging NHS ICB models.
Here I give a (very) brief overview of the emerging model and then cover unanswered questions, assumptions and challenges around digital, data and transformation.

priteshmistry.ghost.io/technology-a...
Technology and Strategy in the emerging ICB landscape
The ICB’s have a new model becoming centres combining data insight with strategic commissioning and public engagement. Here are some unanswered questions and potential bumps in the road to realising t...
priteshmistry.ghost.io
May 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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privateeyenews.bsky.social
“Apparently, TV wildlife presenters can live as long as 99 years”

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
May 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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rspb.bsky.social
Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉

Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.

You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.
May 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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richardbranson.bsky.social
Inspiring celebration of David Attenborough from Kate Winslet and many others - and a much-needed reminder to stand with science www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more
This week the presenter turns 99. To celebrate, we asked 99 nature lovers – including Margaret Atwood, Jane Fonda, Bono, Kate Winslet and Michael Palin – how he has helped us see the world with fresh ...
www.theguardian.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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hpiandycowper.bsky.social
This week’s column is about the ‘radical’ plans currently under discussion for NHS reform. www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-...
Cowper’s Cut 372: Status symbols
There is a live debate around the NHS Ten-Year Plan, which centres on Tom Kibasi’s advocacy of rewiring the English healthcare system so that it offers new and differentiated forms of access based on ...
www.healthpolicyinsight.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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pauljbelcher.bsky.social
📈 #TB in England and #Poverty: “the canary in the coal mine for other health issues related to social deprivation – everything from other infectious diseases to chronic conditions like diabetes.”
April 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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pauljbelcher.bsky.social
#PrEP battle in US #SupremeCourt: “the case is about whether science or politics will guide our nation’s #PublicHealth policy.”

#Prevention #HIV
philipcbaldwin.bsky.social Philip Baldwin @philipcbaldwin.bsky.social · Apr 19
It’s sad that access to PrEP is being weaponised, with broader implications for healthcare. PrEP prevents HIV transmissions. It became available a few years after my diagnosis in 2010. I'm healthy and happy, but every new case is unnecessary given today’s science. www.advocate.com/news/supreme...
What to know about the Supreme Court case that could take away your access to PrEP and other care
Here's what’s at stake in the latest Obamacare challenge that the original plaintiffs claimed encouraged people to be gay.
www.advocate.com
April 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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jiggott.bsky.social
New NHS App roadmap just dropped. digital.nhs.uk/services/nhs...
NHS App roadmap - NHS England Digital
We are always working to improve the NHS App. Read about what’s been recently delivered, what we’re currently working on and what’s coming up next.
digital.nhs.uk
April 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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privateeyenews.bsky.social
Number crunching: Value of reduction in US tariffs for UK companies per year as against EU members v fall in UK exports per year due to Brexit

From the new Private Eye, out now.
April 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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charlestallack.bsky.social
On 16 March, DHSC announced “crack teams” of top clinicians working in 20 trusts had reduced the waiting list by 130% more than in trusts elsewhere. As a result, the scheme (called FF20 – Further Faster 20), is being rolled out across the country.
The claim examined🧵
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Crack teams get patients off waiting lists at twice the speed
Sending top doctors into areas of highest economic inactivity is busting through the backlog.
www.gov.uk
April 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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healthfoundation.bsky.social
In March, the government announced that waiting lists in 20 hospitals given support to tackle waiting lists had, on average, fallen 130% faster than the fall elsewhere.

This blog uses publicly available data to look at this claim in more detail.

Read more ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4jdgXn6
'We’ve examined the government’s claim that the Further Faster 20 programme has cut waiting lists. Gaining a deeper understanding of exactly what’s changed is vital ahead of any wider rollout.' Sarah Opie-Martin, Senior Data Analyst Charles Tallack, Director of Research & Analysis
April 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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anandmenon.bsky.social
This work on living standards across the UK by @theifs.bsky.social is fascinating ifs.org.uk/articles/whi...
April 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM