The Curry House Storm

Last week was the end of my second full working week on the Innovation & Analysis team in Digital Prevention Services at NHS England, working on Managing my health. Though I’ve been with the team for three weeks when you look at a calendar, I’d only worked nine-and-a-half days. I’m still gathering context and learning how people get stuff done in the organisation, where different people sit, and who’s doing what. Joining a discovery at the end is hard. It’s better when you start together, but we do get to start the next phase together – so it evens out. Doing weeknotes It’s probably a good time to repeat why I write weeknotes and why I publish them here, on my own website. These are mostly for my own use, a way to reflect on what I’ve done, to help me remember things, and foster connections. It’s useful to know what other people are thinking, as well as what they’re doing. People do get in touch to collaborate and discuss things. These are not the team’s or the NHS’s viewpoint though.…