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Notes from working on NHS digital prevention services

From Frankie Roberto

  1. Week 31: End of year event

    A celebratory gathering. Test and learn.

  2. Week 30: There’s always a spreadsheet

    A research trip to a maternity unit.

  3. Week 29: Playback

    Notes from last week’s research trip, and tackling the Two Generals’ problem.

  4. Week 28: Research on sea

    Visiting pharamcies in the East of England.

  5. Week 27: Request for change

    Releases processes. Decentralisation vs digitation.

  6. Week 26: Commuting

    Design debt and releases cadences.

  7. Week 25: Away days

    A team day in Leeds. A workshop. NHS Prototype kit.

  8. Week 24: Showtime

    Showing the thing, end-to-end.

  9. Week 23: After the design sprint

    Showing and telling. Service catalogues. Public roadmaps.

  10. Week 22: Design sprint

    A 5 day run at redesigning a core bit of the service.

  11. Week 21: Progressive enhancement

    Kicking off a design sprint. New guidance on client-side JavaScript.

  12. Week 20: Pharmacy vaccinations

    Production code. Service manual research. School flu immunisations.

  13. Week 19: Platformland

    Notes on Richard Pope’s new book. Proxy access.

  14. Week 18: Vital signs

    Publication of the independent investigation of the NHS.

  15. Week 17: Go, go, go

    Launch of the new RSV vaccine. Design System Day. It’s ok poster.

  16. Week 16: Onboarding organisations

    Registers and autocompletes. GOV.UK service navigation.

  17. Week 15: Snagging

    User guides. Date pickers.

  18. Week 14: Back to work

    Doing demos. Using the NHS Prototype Kit. Receiving NHS App notifications.

  19. Holidaynotes: A stitch in the head

    A holiday incident.

  20. Week 13: The RSV vaccine

    Learning from the pilot. CrowdStrike.