Tero Väänänen

Healthcare is an infinite game, but we’re playing with the wrong rules Healthcare is an infinite game, but we design, fund, and govern it as if it were finite.

I wrote about what happens when we design for finite wins in an infinite system and why it feels so hard.

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24.02.2026 16:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Making the NHS design system fit for the future - NHS England Digital Tero Väänänen explains why the NHS design system exists and why it plays an important role in fulfilling the 10-year health plan. He also describes recent changes to the frontend code behind the desig...

I've written about the work we have done to make the NHS Design System fit for the future and to support the NHS 10-year plan to move from analogue to digital.

Read more and be part of this change: digital.nhs.uk/blog/design-...

31.10.2025 10:58 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Weeknote – Exclusion starts at user journey mapping This weeknote is a bit different. Instead of a list of things I did, I want to reflect more deeply on one theme from last week.

My first post here may as well be about an important topic; inclusion.

I attended a high-profile workshop last week, which made me reflect on how easy it is to exclude people from the start.

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