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We're looking to fill a couple of Senior Content Designer roles across the OPG and Probation digital teams www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigit...

I guarantee you're not missing out on honey (or marmalade if that's your preference?)

Obviously that is infuriating, but there really isn't much once you do log in.

Have you considered the compromise (and imho the right solution): the pasta bowl?

There's still time. 😬 #SixNations

Come join @rumens.uk and me at GDS Local as our Senior Delivery Manager.

Closing date: 9 Feb
Location: Bristol, London, Manchester.

Help us bridge central and local gov digital to create seamless experiences for users.
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Come join @rumens.uk and me at GDS Local as our Senior Delivery Manager.

Closing date: 9 Feb
Location: Bristol, London, Manchester.

Help us bridge central and local gov digital to create seamless experiences for users.
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Please please vaccinate your child against measles.

This is from our @independentsage.bsky.social report from last year, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @helensalisbury.bsky.social

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As a user I need to know if my clinic permanently changes location so that I can attend my appointments.

Thank you for setting it up!

One Team Gov VIRTUAL sign up form We plan to meet virtually once per month on the third Wednesday of the month Each meetup will use Lean Coffee with the agenda set by the people who attend on the day. Where? Online meeting (Most li...

One Team Gov virtual is happening this Wednesday, if you want to you can still sign up here: forms.gle/PEQ669VijpXZ...

Joining up public services through stronger local and central government collaboration GDS Local is driving collaboration between central and local government to build faster, user-centred digital services.

The Roadmap for Modern Digital Government has a commitment that GDS works with #localgov to co-create a vision including shared products and components of a technology stack.

If this is of interest to you what are your thoughts?

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Probs a day for tea and seed sorting and tentatively stepping into the garden and reconquering the veg beds from the squirrels and their hidden nuts. Gardening has helped my sometimes-a-bit-anxious-and-sad brain rethink January and reimagine it for all the possibilities of the coming growing year.

Thanks for your session about the list of services. I'm going to keep it in mind and mention it to a few people as and when I can.

A selfie of a person with short hair and glasses and a dark grey coat in front of Birmingham City Hall

Totally exhausted from a v early start and train shenanigans but thank you as always to the campmakers, organisers and our wonderful hosts at Birmingham City Council. See y'all next year! #ukgc26

Lots of good conversations as always at #ukgc26. Some takeaways:
- hypothesis-driven practice Inc 'vibe coding' needs an acceptance it might fail
- thinking about spaces to discuss failure that include #localgov
- product jobs are never the same
- still many barriers to data sharing

I have no idea what time I'll get in but I am at least on a train to Birmingham #ukgc26

Come talk to me about GDS Local - keen to hear any thoughts about opportunities or learnings and generally mingle with folks interested in all things #localgov

Good news! The (delayed) 09:16 is boarding.

Very few signs of that just yet but I live in hope. 🤞

The chances of going to #ukgc26 are getting slimmer... 🥲

PSA for those heading from London to Birmingham for @ukgovcamp.com - all trains from Euston currently cancelled, head to St Pancras and change at Leicester... #govcamp

You're a star! I was panicky doing web searches for alt routes

Oh no! I'm on my way there...

Yes I noticed that outsourcing model too. Iterestingly, that form is also designed for the patient to fill out most of it and then the GP to sign. But the online instructions seem to be your GP fills it all out.

My prescription fee exemption cert expires soon. To get it renewed, my GP must full out the FP92A paper form return it by post (there's also a process to order copies of this form!). But I also need to put in a request to ask my GP to do this process. This process feels like it could be better...

Made some Irish brown bread. Added a bit too much wheat bran. The crust tastes almost like digestive biscuits. That's a win, I reckon!

Thanks for your notes and you and your team's work this year! I've had 2x covid and 1x flu vaccines this year and getting a vaccine remains one of the easiest things for me to do as someone who interacts with many, many health services!

A portrait shot of a whippet, wearing a navy jumper, standing alert with his ears pricked up in the middle of the picture, with sandy scrub to the fore, and scrubby dunes behind him. The top third of the image is a brilliant blue sky with light cirrostratus clouds. The light is golden and warm and casting deep shadows.

And today to another fave spot, blurring the line between land and sea with sandy paths and dunes. This is a prime bunny patch but he never finds any.

I have no words to describe how much the light at this time of the year makes me feel. It's constantly golden hour.

You should've known. Why would you do that to her?!

A landscape image of late afternoon winter sunlight, golden and bright, facing into the setting sun, with light stratus clouds, and a lens flare strikes through to the foreground. The sea is to the right of the image and to to the left a grassy path along a cliff. In the middle of the image, a good distance from the viewer, is a very small black silhouette of a whippet. The image projects calmness and natural beauty.

Rounding out 2025 walking with my favourite boy along one of our favourite walks in North Devon - on the cliffs, undulating beside the sea. Zero hospital admissions this year which makes for a change from the last few years!