David Dawes
@dawescoding.bsky.social
NHS Data Architect - Clinical Classifications, Terminologies, and Interoperability - Posting and Replying in an unofficial capacity
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🌈 It’s been fascinating to see which ideas from Rainbow Trap *stick* with readers – and the idea of box breakers has been one of those sticky ideas!
So... who are box breakers? 🧵
So... who are box breakers? 🧵
October 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
🌈 It’s been fascinating to see which ideas from Rainbow Trap *stick* with readers – and the idea of box breakers has been one of those sticky ideas!
So... who are box breakers? 🧵
So... who are box breakers? 🧵
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We have recorded 529 laboratory-confirmed #Measles cases in England since January 2025, representing a significant increase driven by declining childhood vaccination rates.
Our data dashboard provides data on the total number of cases by week of onset: ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/vaccine-prev...
Our data dashboard provides data on the total number of cases by week of onset: ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/vaccine-prev...
July 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
We have recorded 529 laboratory-confirmed #Measles cases in England since January 2025, representing a significant increase driven by declining childhood vaccination rates.
Our data dashboard provides data on the total number of cases by week of onset: ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/vaccine-prev...
Our data dashboard provides data on the total number of cases by week of onset: ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/vaccine-prev...
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Want to know how High Speed 1 is doing or how effective the Video Games Tax Relief has been?
The government have set up an 'Evaluation Registry' which has over 1,750 evaluations on it.
Hours, days, weeks of fun.
evaluation-registry.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
The government have set up an 'Evaluation Registry' which has over 1,750 evaluations on it.
Hours, days, weeks of fun.
evaluation-registry.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Home
- Evaluation Registry - GOV.UK
evaluation-registry.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
July 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Want to know how High Speed 1 is doing or how effective the Video Games Tax Relief has been?
The government have set up an 'Evaluation Registry' which has over 1,750 evaluations on it.
Hours, days, weeks of fun.
evaluation-registry.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
The government have set up an 'Evaluation Registry' which has over 1,750 evaluations on it.
Hours, days, weeks of fun.
evaluation-registry.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
How exciting - and a great opportunity to get involved!
🌈 🌐 rainbowR conference: online, early 2026 🌐 🌈
Are you LGBTQIA+, do you code in R, and would you like to get involved in rainbowR’s first-ever conference? We are looking for people to join our conference organising committee!
➡️ rainbowr.org/conference
🗓️ 1st meeting: July 9, 4pm UTC
Are you LGBTQIA+, do you code in R, and would you like to get involved in rainbowR’s first-ever conference? We are looking for people to join our conference organising committee!
➡️ rainbowr.org/conference
🗓️ 1st meeting: July 9, 4pm UTC
Conference – rainbowR
Join our conference organising committee! See our conference page for more info.
rainbowr.org
July 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
How exciting - and a great opportunity to get involved!
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theconversation.com/the-uks-plan...
UK’s plan to genetically test all newborns sounds smart – until it creates patients who aren’t sick
- Risk ≠ certainty
- False positives
- Long term follow up (capacity)
- Truly informed consent
- Who owns my children's genome
& other unintended consequences
UK’s plan to genetically test all newborns sounds smart – until it creates patients who aren’t sick
- Risk ≠ certainty
- False positives
- Long term follow up (capacity)
- Truly informed consent
- Who owns my children's genome
& other unintended consequences
The UK’s plan to genetically test all newborns sounds smart – until it creates patients who aren’t sick
The promise and peril of sequencing every baby’s genome.
theconversation.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
theconversation.com/the-uks-plan...
UK’s plan to genetically test all newborns sounds smart – until it creates patients who aren’t sick
- Risk ≠ certainty
- False positives
- Long term follow up (capacity)
- Truly informed consent
- Who owns my children's genome
& other unintended consequences
UK’s plan to genetically test all newborns sounds smart – until it creates patients who aren’t sick
- Risk ≠ certainty
- False positives
- Long term follow up (capacity)
- Truly informed consent
- Who owns my children's genome
& other unintended consequences
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What blocks collaboration in government isn’t tech debt. It’s cultural debt jessicalynnmacleod.substack.com/p/how-to-bre...
How to Break Down Silos and Collaborate Across Government
Practical strategies to align goals, build trust, and work across boundaries
jessicalynnmacleod.substack.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:25 AM
What blocks collaboration in government isn’t tech debt. It’s cultural debt jessicalynnmacleod.substack.com/p/how-to-bre...
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A small but momentous change to the OpenPrescribing homepage this evening.
Hospital medicines data now OPEN for everyone
hospitals.openprescribing.net
Hospital medicines data now OPEN for everyone
hospitals.openprescribing.net
May 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A small but momentous change to the OpenPrescribing homepage this evening.
Hospital medicines data now OPEN for everyone
hospitals.openprescribing.net
Hospital medicines data now OPEN for everyone
hospitals.openprescribing.net
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Find the Easy Read version of the Welsh Government Draft Disabled People’s Rights Plan Consultation here: gov.wales/draft-disabl... Share your views by 7 August, your voice matters! #DisabilityRights #Wales #EasyRead
Draft Disabled People’s Rights Plan | GOV.WALES
We want your views on the draft Disabled People’s Rights Plan.
gov.wales
May 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Find the Easy Read version of the Welsh Government Draft Disabled People’s Rights Plan Consultation here: gov.wales/draft-disabl... Share your views by 7 August, your voice matters! #DisabilityRights #Wales #EasyRead
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I wrote up my experiment making an LLM/AI project for GOV.UK prototyping:
joelanman.com/posts/llm-ai...
joelanman.com/posts/llm-ai...
Joe Lanman - Making an LLM/AI web app for GOV.UK prototyping
Designer based in London
joelanman.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I wrote up my experiment making an LLM/AI project for GOV.UK prototyping:
joelanman.com/posts/llm-ai...
joelanman.com/posts/llm-ai...
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Congratulations @bristolbrc.bsky.social on this fantastic resource! The play, Hard Evidence, and this subsequent How to guide were developed out of research led by CAPC colleague, Natalia Lewis, on mindfulness as an intervention for women with PTSD and history of #DomesticAbuse (The coMforT study).
🚀Just launched! Our How-To Guide on how to use co-developed theatre for disseminating research on sensitive subjects.
🎭Download the guide
www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/how-to-guide/
📃Read @thebeetlebox.bsky.social's blog about how the guide came about
www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/like-russian...
🎭Download the guide
www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/how-to-guide/
📃Read @thebeetlebox.bsky.social's blog about how the guide came about
www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/like-russian...
May 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Congratulations @bristolbrc.bsky.social on this fantastic resource! The play, Hard Evidence, and this subsequent How to guide were developed out of research led by CAPC colleague, Natalia Lewis, on mindfulness as an intervention for women with PTSD and history of #DomesticAbuse (The coMforT study).
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For more of this, come to DataBites tomorrow.
May 6, 2025 at 11:11 AM
For more of this, come to DataBites tomorrow.
TfW are putting their trains on the blockchain (iOS only).
“Our subscription-based AI ticketing app...simplifies complex fare structures...the world’s first blockchain wallet for mobility, our goal is to make travel accessible, intuitive, and affordable for all.”
news.tfw.wales/news/tfw-lau...
“Our subscription-based AI ticketing app...simplifies complex fare structures...the world’s first blockchain wallet for mobility, our goal is to make travel accessible, intuitive, and affordable for all.”
news.tfw.wales/news/tfw-lau...
TfW launch new loyalty app for customers
Transport for Wales (TfW) is launching a new subscription and loyalty app that rewards passengers for their travel on TfW services.
news.tfw.wales
April 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
TfW are putting their trains on the blockchain (iOS only).
“Our subscription-based AI ticketing app...simplifies complex fare structures...the world’s first blockchain wallet for mobility, our goal is to make travel accessible, intuitive, and affordable for all.”
news.tfw.wales/news/tfw-lau...
“Our subscription-based AI ticketing app...simplifies complex fare structures...the world’s first blockchain wallet for mobility, our goal is to make travel accessible, intuitive, and affordable for all.”
news.tfw.wales/news/tfw-lau...
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Now that a new triumvirate of leaders (Jim Mackey, Penny Dash and Sam Jones, if confirmed as PS) have to rethink how to organise and manage the central team running the NHS, I have a suggestion for a book they should read...
April 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Now that a new triumvirate of leaders (Jim Mackey, Penny Dash and Sam Jones, if confirmed as PS) have to rethink how to organise and manage the central team running the NHS, I have a suggestion for a book they should read...
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Were you thinking of sending your artificial intelligence helper to an online meeting with the European Commission?
Think again. The Commission banned AI agents from its online meetings.
pro.politico.eu/news/197231
Think again. The Commission banned AI agents from its online meetings.
pro.politico.eu/news/197231
POLITICO Pro
pro.politico.eu
April 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Were you thinking of sending your artificial intelligence helper to an online meeting with the European Commission?
Think again. The Commission banned AI agents from its online meetings.
pro.politico.eu/news/197231
Think again. The Commission banned AI agents from its online meetings.
pro.politico.eu/news/197231
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
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A celebration of laverbread first held on April 14th 2022 is in its fourth year, with the national salute to seaweed receiving attention from WWF Cymru
Fourth National Laverbread Day celebrates Welsh delicacy
A celebration of laverbread first held on April 14th 2022 is in its fourth year, with the national salute to seaweed receiving attention from WWF Cymru. Laverbread incorporates a type of edible seawee...
nation.cymru
April 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
A celebration of laverbread first held on April 14th 2022 is in its fourth year, with the national salute to seaweed receiving attention from WWF Cymru
This is an inspiring and fascinating piece of data organisation, presentation, and visualisation.
Rather than doom-scrolling/trying to desperately learn what a ‘Treasury basis trade’ is, why not play with our new tool instead?
Allows you to see, in lots of detail, how much the government spends on different things in each region (£, £ per person, % GDP). I’ll post some nice examples later.
Allows you to see, in lots of detail, how much the government spends on different things in each region (£, £ per person, % GDP). I’ll post some nice examples later.
April 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This is an inspiring and fascinating piece of data organisation, presentation, and visualisation.
Reposted by David Dawes
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Not necessarily good news; again, Streeting's concern is how we can sell health data, not how we can use it within the NHS.
Wes Streeting, health secretary, has confirmed the government’s commitment to retaining the digital workforce amid the abolition of NHS England.
Full story 👉 ow.ly/umiw50Vxa3j
Full story 👉 ow.ly/umiw50Vxa3j
Wes Streeting pledges to retain digital workforce amid NHS reforms
Wes Streeting, health secretary, confirmed the government’s commitment to retaining the digital workforce amid the abolition of NHS England.
ow.ly
April 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Not necessarily good news; again, Streeting's concern is how we can sell health data, not how we can use it within the NHS.
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Perhaps more likely they accidentally flipped xᵢ and mᵢ
Look, even I can get my subscripts right on bsky
Look, even I can get my subscripts right on bsky
April 3, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Perhaps more likely they accidentally flipped xᵢ and mᵢ
Look, even I can get my subscripts right on bsky
Look, even I can get my subscripts right on bsky
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I've used this to find some EU based tech product (including Thyme, the only good time tracking app I've found): european-alternatives.eu
Is there anything approaching a UK version?
Is there anything approaching a UK version?
Homepage | European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
european-alternatives.eu
April 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I've used this to find some EU based tech product (including Thyme, the only good time tracking app I've found): european-alternatives.eu
Is there anything approaching a UK version?
Is there anything approaching a UK version?
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Fuck I just accidentally copied in a journalist into a signal groupchat where me and other doctors were discussing that one weird trick
March 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Fuck I just accidentally copied in a journalist into a signal groupchat where me and other doctors were discussing that one weird trick
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As highlighted in a recent BBC article, overall death rates in the UK were back on the pre-pandemic trend in 2024, hitting an all time low.
However, the overall death rate is dominated by what’s going on at older ages where most deaths happen. The news is much worse at working ages. 🧵 1/5
However, the overall death rate is dominated by what’s going on at older ages where most deaths happen. The news is much worse at working ages. 🧵 1/5
March 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
As highlighted in a recent BBC article, overall death rates in the UK were back on the pre-pandemic trend in 2024, hitting an all time low.
However, the overall death rate is dominated by what’s going on at older ages where most deaths happen. The news is much worse at working ages. 🧵 1/5
However, the overall death rate is dominated by what’s going on at older ages where most deaths happen. The news is much worse at working ages. 🧵 1/5