🆕 blog! “NHS Goes To War Against Open Source”

The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories.

Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-g

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@Edent supported biz hours only, deprecated.
I meant only a few years ago this was literally just a CSV you could fetch.

@falken what kind of support do you need? It isn't like they change every 5 minutes.
If it's important to you - let them know. There's nothing I can do about it.

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@Edent Oh, I know :-) Was just example of NHS closing access, not just to code recently. I fight the NHS API often :-)

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