Daniel Bower

Last week I was chatting with two friends, one a medic the other a hospital manager, about the National Early Warning Score (NEWS).

In Night of the Living Dead (1968), George Romero’s horror classic, the driving tension between Ben and Harry is whether to fortify the ground floor of the farmhouse, or head to the cellar?

When my partner and I found out we were having a child back in 2017 one of the things I got excited about was the opportunity to teach the new arrival how to code.

For my birthday my Mum bought me a copy of Gods of New York by Jonathan Maher.

At the end of 2024, and after only recently joining NHS England, I gave myself two years to see if I can make the kind of impact I would hope to see in a Head of Product role.

→ When robot taxis get stuck, a secret army of humans comes to the rescue This Washington Post story from the end of last year caught my attention.

→ The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI Lots of great insight here from Cory, but I was particularly draw to his description of what I called the “political economy of hype” in a previous post on web3.

Imagine my surprise on joining NHS England to discover that it had a secret sugar addiction.

Last month, a small multi-disciplinary team from the Digital Prevention Services Portfolio (where I am Head of Product for Screening) presented to the NHS England team responsible for Lung Cancer Screening on how we would go about digitising a section of…

Since joining NHS England about six eight months ago, one of the topics that has come up repeatedly is being product-led.