So exciting!! Announced on WHO patient safety day, now available for preorder: Fix IT: See and solve the problems of digital healthcare : Thimbleby, Harold

WHY is DfT so slow over a long-standing obvious problem? Maybe LED industry makes so much money it lobbies heavily for selling more LEDs rather than improving safety?

Fabricant is lying. Here’s the actual front page.

So delighted to be part of the team winning the @haroldthimbleby award for digital transformation at the @RCPhysicians Excellence in Patient Care ! I'm really proud of the work with @LBofHounslow on digital inclusion and grateful for the support of the @theQCommunity @HealthFdn

I've just been sent an email: "... could you respond by 05/11/2025 or as soon after this as you could manage. Please note that the due date given is in UK date format." Why not just ask me to respond by 5 November 2025, or are their computer systems so bad?

After spending 10 minutes or so describing my *urgent* medical problems the NHS computer in the Emergency Department crashed. Reception had no idea. It is very bad programming for the system to keep no log or incremental backup as it goes along, especially as it is so unreliable.

@GWRHelp GWR don’t want to sell tickets anyway. With excellent wifi, it’s been frozen for half an hour.

Trying to buy a UK rail ticket on an app. Saver? Super saver? I DON'T CARE WHAT THE TICKET IS CALLED, I WANT TO KNOW WHEN I CAN TRAVEL. Idiots.

Yesterday, I read a long list of Angela Rayner's accomplishments while in the job, & I hadn't heard about any one of them. I realised how all the communication, from govt to media, is obsessed with small boats. It's all we hear. Boats, boats, boats. This is crazy.

Too little, if any, of the Angela Rayner coverage reflects the reality three editors have parked cars outside her homes and pursued her since and before the election. They got their target. But they choose who they take down, who they ignore, who they celebrate. And who they

There are many sad things in this world, one of the saddest to me, is seeing old people have to go into a home. We give them nice titles like care homes , even appealing names like Butternut Lodge and Sycamore House. The stark reality in many cases is the cheapest of cheap

It’d be interesting to see this research on Trump repeated on Farage

The rich case for a British wealth tax. "A 2% wealth tax on assets over £10 million is moderate, reasonable and much needed. Imagine you have £11 million. A wealth tax would require you to pay 2% on that 11th million - so £20,000. But most people, with wealth of this scale, can

Excellent statement from British Ministry Defence explaining that it would take Russia another 4.4 years and over a million more dead Russians to occupy just these 4 regions of Ukraine. Imagine if the US were to just sanction russia.. Putin would be gone.

A report into Horizon’s early development, ‘Origins of A Disaster’, is now available via Bath Publishing. It’s free to download but donations to the Horizon Scandal Fund, which helps those impacted by the Post Office scandals, are greatly appreciated.

Associate Professor position in Information Systems (including HCI and UXD) @tcddublinscss @tcddublin, application deadline noon 29th August. Application link (with salary details etc.): https://t.co/s4AMlLYLXP Job description:

Brexit is the most absurd hill for Labour to die on, yet all recent polls from every pollster provide clear evidence that they're dying. It is stark staring mad that their approach to Brexit continues to be "slightly improve the lifeboats on the Titanic". https://t.co/cRhVbvTlws

Wanted to tell @avivaUK they have a bad web site etc: lots of problems eg if you need to update credit card details you HAVE to pay next year's premium. All they offer is a chatbot. You can't tell them things that'd help them as it's cheaper to have a chatbot than talk to a human

I’m sorry, I’m not trying to be a jerk, but referring to Y2K as a “fake crisis” is really inaccurate. Was some of the panic about it hyperbolic? Sure. But the actual technical crisis underlying it was a serious issue that lots of people worked seriously on for years.

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I don't like email that doesn't have a replyto - it means the sender doesn't care (eg doesn't want to know about problems), but @AnthropicAI go one further: a replyto email that bounces. So they give the impression they're possibly interested, but never hear from anyone.