Week ending 08/09/23 It’s been almost exactly three months since my last weeknote. Oops. Hard to summarise all the work our teams have done during that period, but I’ll have quick go: Launched a new area for women’s health on NHS.UK along with some new content for a condition called…

Week ending 09/06/23 I returned from a week on holiday in Sicily to find that a couple of big things I’d been trying hard to un-block had miraculously been un-blocked without me. Who needs the product manager anyway? …

Week ending 19/05/23 Stayed overnight in London this week so I could have a few drinks and say goodbye to my colleague Jack who is leaving us soon for an exciting new job. …

Week ending 12/05/23 Someone on Twitter shared this GDS poster this week and it reminded me that I used to have this, along with a number of other GDS mantras, stuck up on the wall behind my desk in a previous job. Whenever I was having a challenging discussion, trying…

Fortnight ending 05/05/23 The past two weeks have been an endless loop of planning for research, doing research and analysing and presenting the outcome of research. And also planning some more research. What went well? We’ve been testing something we’ve built to support the Women’s Health Strategy for England. We wanted to find…

Week ending 21/04/23 Just when I was on the verge of abandoning weeknoting on the basis that I don’t feel like I have enough of interest to share, and anything interesting that does happen is often not possible to share, two things happened: I was reading an interesting thing Giles…

Week ending 24/03/23 Some notable ups and downs this week, mostly around stakeholder management. What went well? We presented our roadmap for 2023/24 to our colleagues across NHS.UK and our public-facing roadmap went live Mark’s great blog post about our work to speed-up the scale and pace of transformation across the NHS website…

Week ending 10/03/23 What went well? We welcomed a new user researcher to our teams. She’s going to be helping us with our content type development work which is so important in helping us manage our content more effectively. …

Week ending 03/03/23 What went well? We held a retro for our product/delivery/senior content colleagues in our relatively newly-formed Health Advice & Guidance teams. It was good to make time to reflect on what had gone well and not so well since we formed in November. We had our first sprint review with…