Weeknotes s06e24
TL;DR: Trust Public Meeting. Not quite hitting meeting expectations. Midlands Digital Skills Development Conference. Legacy fanboy moment.
[week ending 20/09/2024]
Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? Meeting with Nathan from Apogee.
NHSE meeting re Federated Data Platform.
Meeting with Martin and David from Thoughtworks. I used to work with Martin at NHS Digital, so it was good to catch up. It didn’t harm that in my head I associate Thoughtworks with Martin Fowler, a software engineer who wrote several influential books back in the days when I cranked out code for a living. There were a few names around at the time that I read everything that they created, including Martin Fowler — I found him really inspirational. It was a really good and wide ranging conversation, where I felt there was a genuine interest to try and understand the Trust’s issues.
What would you have liked to do more of? In preparation for the Digital and Data Strategic Committee, the Shadow Committee met to review the papers. I was only able to join briefly, then left it in Colin’s capable hands.
What do you wish you could have changed? This week all the major programmes as part of our Financial Sustainability Programme met with the CEO and other key stakeholders. Each workstream had to give an update on progress, particularly against forecasted delivery. I’d worked with the Standardise, Centralise and Digitise team to provide the update for my workstream. I felt the first part of the meeting went well, but in the latter part it was clear that some of the content didn’t hit the spot in terms of providing the right detail. It took me pretty much the rest of the day to stop kicking myself about it and think about what next.
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What did you learn? The main source of learning this week came from Digital Future Midlands — the third year of the annual conference of the Midlands Digital Skills Development of which I’m honoured to be co-chair with Amy.
What did you achieve?
- Attended the National SDN coordination and liaison committee.
- Spoke at the EMAP (East Midlands Acute Providers) DDC (Digital Design Collaborative) launch event.
- EMRAD Management Board. Lots of conversations about supplier performance, staff dissatisfaction and procurement timelines
- All Staff Town Hall.
- 1–2–1 with Colin
- Dipped out of conference to chair the Digital and Data Strategic Committee.
- Attended the Trusts Annual Public Meeting. This was held in the City centre to try and make it more accessible to members of the public and there was a good turnout.
What are you looking forward to next week?
- Gold on call again
- A guest appearance on the Shuri Network podcast
- Divisional performance reviews
- Finance and Performance and Committee Meeting
- Lecturing for the Digital Health Leadership Programme run by Imperial
Books finished this week:
- Fiction: None.
- Non-Fiction: None
Currently Reading:
- Non-Fiction: War and Peace and IT by Mark Schwartz.
- Fiction: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.
- Fiction: Relentless by Simon Kernick. This has been on my shelf for ages and I don’t even know where it came from. It’s clearly second hand and I was less worried about dropping it in the bath than the other books I’m already reading!
