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Lizzy Bell

@lizzybell.bsky.social

Leading the digital team at DHSC. Old lag of digital government

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why do female Olympic athletes who do international standard ice dancing have to do it in their pants? Didn’t we get over this a while back with the beach volleyball thing?

15.02.2026 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Today, I needed my member number. But no, not even that was available from β€˜the portal’. I am this fricking close to suggesting we just form a competent task force made up of govt old lags and forcibly wrest control

12.02.2026 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What lunacy. We always do a 1030/11 start in London because nobody needs to get up at 5

17.01.2026 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Also on the side of a massive office block in Chester

10.01.2026 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, so they actually bothered to replatform civil service pensions into a service which β€˜doesn’t actually tell you how much your pension is’. love to see the early user stories version for this and the rag-rated critical path to go live.

12.12.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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17.10.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fancy a change? Seeking air traffic control for DHSC digital projects - small to large, mostly national not NHS-facing. Open to all flavours of ddat specialists. flexible, diverse team based in London and Leeds. Talk to me, or to one of the team. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

05.09.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

This is amazing! How did I not see this before!

18.09.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mojo thoroughly back via #SDingov. Great couple of days with inspiration from new voices, old lags and colleagues past and present. Oh, and a magician.

18.09.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Me!

17.09.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes! Think of the lone dad with two tweens who was just trying to get to a rerun of JAWS but ended up in not only imax subway hell but a fetid bath of hideousness

13.09.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m confused. Why did far right protestors circle the IMAX? What has the imax ever done to them, etc..

13.09.2025 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I really hope they all get lost on the wrong branch of the northern line and end up in High Barnet

13.09.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I did not expect my morning to involve getting caught up with a load of far right protestors at Euston. People marching through the tube station using megaphones to sing Tommy Robinson songs, clearly intimidating staff, and me. not sure where the transport police are..

13.09.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fancy a change? Seeking air traffic control for DHSC digital projects - small to large, mostly national not NHS-facing. Open to all flavours of ddat specialists. flexible, diverse team based in London and Leeds. Talk to me, or to one of the team. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

05.09.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Try NHS BSA at Goldcrest House? I’ll
email Debbie an intro

04.09.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Austria rocks but Verona has actual
gladiator mosaics

26.08.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Less than a week away interrailing feels like about three. Space time continuum truly disturbed

08.08.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

half the sets are stashed under a weird β€˜extras’ tab

28.06.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am so brain dead with Covid that last night when The Last of Us finished and auto-played a different programme straight after, I didn’t notice for 20 mins. Thought it was some sort of crazy epilogue.

25.06.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whaaaaaaat I need this so much

14.05.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Absolute definition of spring today, hares running in the fields along Stonehenge and a great bustard in the middle of the stones

06.04.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That thing where you are finally writing that end of week pithy email which summarises multiple meetings and next steps and then Windows does a forced restart.

28.03.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am once again on the β€˜usual levels of insanely overheated’ Avanti back to London and I want to put a middle aged woman in charge of all thermostats, ever, in the world

15.03.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you. Lots of people to talk to and support but lots of opportunity too. Digital and tech not immune, but small % in both orgs

13.03.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well that was a bit of a day.

13.03.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it’s because we are perennially trying to squeeze long complicated things into tiny concise recommendations. As a comms tool it sucks

14.02.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is how I want my cold February to be

11.02.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just spent three hours on HMRC’s pension calculator service and want to cry. I imagine it went something like: β€˜no, content designers, annual allowance IS the same thing as pension input amount, it’s totally clear’ during a year long argument between CS pensions and HMRC legals

26.01.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Waiting for a routine NHS appointment, unlike others I love this as reminds we how much we have to give voice and power to the non-clinical workforce…. and better tech.

24.01.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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