From Foundations to Governance
Your structured path through NHS digital health compliance. Six posts covering DCB0129, clinical safety cases, hazard management, and building governance that scales.
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Left of the Regulator: Why Operational Maturity Comes Before Clinical Value
Clinical value requires operational maturity. Before regulatory approval matters, before outcomes can be measured, the infrastructure must be solid. Getting the sequence right changes everything.
What the NHS 10-Year Plan Actually Means for Private Medical Insurers
The structural shifts in NHS policy don't just affect providers. Three changes fundamentally alter how insurers must operate: the end of information asymmetry, compliance contagion from PSR, and the prevention evidence gap.
Three Regulatory Shifts Private Healthcare Cannot Ignore
The NHS 10-Year Health Plan changes the operating environment for private providers and insurers. Interoperability mandates, provider selection evidence requirements, and compliance-attached capital demand attention now.
The Hidden Hazard in Neighbourhood Health
NHS neighbourhood health transformation creates fractal boundary problems across ICS, provider, and NHS-private interfaces. How do we govern care that crosses organisational edges?
The Seven Flows of Care: A 4W1H Narrative
Understanding the foundational information flows that enable safe, effective healthcare delivery: Identity, Consent, Provenance, Clinical Intent, and more.
Standing Up Our Live Clinical Safety Mesh
Our safety intelligence environment is now running in real conditions. Not finished, but live enough to observe, test, and learn from.
COSE — The Quiet Layer That Keeps Trust Intact
Clinical data doesn't stay in one place. How COSE makes trust portable in distributed healthcare systems.
FHIR at the Edge
Community-led healthcare needs flexible, local-first digital infrastructure. How FHIR at the edge enables autonomy without fragmentation.
AI Readiness in Health Data Platforms
As AI becomes central to healthcare, platforms will be judged on how ready their data is for safe, explainable, regulatory-grade AI use.
When the Network Sleeps
Healthcare systems must cope with absence and silence. Designing resilient architectures that maintain trust during device dropouts.
From Data Foundations to Clinical Confidence
Flexible, distributed, patient-first data architectures enable trusted AI at scale. How FHIR Cube provides the foundation for interoperable innovation.
Explainability and Auditability in Clinical AI
Turning the Safety Case from a PDF into a Live Control. For executive and management leaders across NHS and provider organisations.
A Strategic Review of the LFPSE Service
With NRLS decommissioned, LFPSE is now mandated for patient safety events. The real challenge is rebuilding reporting culture.
From Waiting Room to Ward
The perspective of general practice is missing in too many digital conversations. Yet GP surgeries are the front door to the health system.
GPs Spend Too Much Time on QOF
How modern health data infrastructure and FHIR can automate QOF tracking, saving GP practices time and protecting vital income.
Engineering Notes — Week 1
Engineering in safety-critical domains has a way of humbling you. This week's focus: reaching full Core-5 rule coverage.
Connecting the Dots
A GP's practical vision for enhanced clinical efficacy through better information systems and local innovation.
Freeing the CSO
How routine compliance issues trap Clinical Safety Officers in endless cycles, and how DCB CoLab transforms CSOs into catalysts for safe innovation.
Enabling the Innovators
How we're creating the infrastructure to help developers and innovators navigate NHS compliance and bring their solutions to healthcare.
Building Distributed Health Data Systems
A comprehensive guide for buyers evaluating distributed health data systems, covering governance, consent, resilience, and implementation.
Why We're Building Inference Clinical
The journey into building Inference Clinical — transforming thirty years of experience into platforms that make NHS innovation easier and safer.
AI and the Future of Consulting and Healthcare
How AI is transforming consulting and healthcare from supply-side models to engagement-driven futures.
Patients and Clinicians at the Heart of Transformation
True NHS digital transformation happens only when patients and clinicians are at the heart of change. Technology should serve people.
Foundations First
Safer NHS digital health starts with stronger foundations. Too many pilots stall because safety, evidence, and governance are left until late.
Building Bridges Between Engineers and Clinicians
How engineers and clinicians can work together to safely deliver community healthcare through shared frameworks, patience, and data flow.
The Messy, Beautiful Challenge of Processing Wearable Signals
The engineering challenges of transforming noisy wearable signals into medical-grade data — from motion artifacts to clinical validation.
Building Preventative Health Together: Samsung
How Inference Clinical's collaboration within Samsung's Health ecosystem supports UK prevention, remote monitoring, and safer digital foundations.
Towards Clinical Software Safety Enablement
How Clinical Software Safety Enablement transforms medical device evaluation, making safety integral to digital health innovation.
Community Care, Proactive by Design
How practices move from reactivity to proactivity: earlier sight, safer data, kinder language, and tech that respects reality on the ground.
Engineering at the Heart of Safer Digital Health
Healthcare tech has been a closed shop for too long. We're changing that by providing guardrails, knowledge, and community.
Beyond Compliance: Clinical Safety as Innovation's Foundation
When clinical safety processes become strategic enablers rather than compliance hurdles, NHS trusts can deploy innovations 70% faster.
The Birth of Inference Clinical
Why we exist: a personal origin story turned practical mission for safer, smarter NHS innovation.