Hi everyone, I’m James, a GP in South Devon, current Deputy Chair of the RCGP Health Informatics Group and Secretary of the BCS Primary Healthcare Specialist Group. I know this conversation comes up regularly. I have considered it for a while and was inspired further by discussions with Marcus and…

Thank you everyone! Great to see such positive responses and enthusiasm. To me it makes sense that if we can organise a structured and co-ordinated approach to this as well as shining a light on the outputs and potential, it would be a good direction. At present, I imagine there are many clinician…

[image] james.roberts: can I suggest Tuesday 28th April 18:30-19:30 as a time for anyone interested in being involved to meet? I can make this.

Irritatingly, despite it being 2026 and all, Discourse still doesn’t really have a great way to send out a Calendar invite which will be notified out by email and contains the right mimetype text/calendar that you can all get it auto-added to Calendar. What it does have is the ability to add an Eve…

On ideas. I think health is too focused on recording data and is biased to data doctors want. This means workflow or patient care coordination is not as good as it could be - this is often not supported by primary, social care, social prescribing or community systems (nobody wants to pay for it?) F…

Agreed, whilst clinical data is important the social daily workflows are just not there. With my mothers care, I recognise the staff change overs and varying medical inputs it’s so hard to keep a track on simple basic care needs.

On another idea- I once heard of a record system that connect family records together. I think this could be really inspiring. Not necessarily seeing those other records but understanding the core fundamental aspects of stresses and support networks could be really interesting as a concept. Familie…

Might be an idea to get these noted down and then we can talk about solutions? Slightly engineering the solution here, as I can see some of what is discussed above is directly related to this post Social Care Systems FHIR and Interoperability APIs - #5 by mayfield.g.kev The underlying requirement …

A team to develop, in house, open-source tools for the NHS

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pacharanero (Marcus Baw) 20 April 2026 21:11 30

Also in case not everyone has seen this:

Quite a lot of the same people for this call would possibly want to come to a CwC conference. Non-clinicians would be welcome, especially if you want to present something…