Marcus Baw

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Cyber and resilience 1. Two papers were reviewed covering the NHS England Resilience Programme and the Cyber Accelerator. The committee noted significant overlap between the two, with insufficient alignment between the teams. Strategic and policy decisions will be consolidated within the Cyber Accelerator; the Resilience Programme has been refocused on its original scope — mission critical systems and completing minimum controls for each. A mapping grid will be produced to enable progress monitoring. 2. The committee has three substantive concerns which require attention: 2.1 First, the Cyber Accelerator Programme spans a wide range of actions but lacks clarity on prioritisation. The team has been asked to reframe the programme using an urgent/important matrix and present a clear plan for those items satisfying both criteria. 2.2 Second, progress on the Board’s request for a national business continuity exercise following a severe cyber-attack is slow. The Committee felt that we must test and plan for major failure scenarios as they relate to cyber, with a focus on business operations and decision‑making resilience rather than technical restoration. 2.3 Third, and most significantly, the Voluntary Redundancy (VR) programme represents a material and currently unmitigated risk. Scarce specialist capacity is being drawn away from critical cyber and resilience work, and this constraint is not yet resolved. The committee felt that the approach to VR may be a symptom of a wider root cause that we have a system which needs to be digital but doesn’t know how we grow and nurture the technology workforce and make it much more part of the DNA of the organisation.
The more time I spend on AI-assisted programming the less afraid I am for my job, because it turns out building software—especially at the rate it’s now possible to build—still requires enormous skill, experience and depth of understanding.
To find out what the next decade of health and care looks like, read Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England. The Long Term Plan, published in January 2019, can be found on The National Archives website.
Hi Marcus Thanks for reporting this issue - I've now removed that dataset from data.gov.uk.  Best wishes
The new government sees health as one of its key missions and will present a 10-year plan for the NHS in the first half of 2025. It has set out three big shifts that it wants to see: from hospital to community-based care; from analogue to digital; and from treating ill health to its prevention. These transformations are essential to the NHS’s recovery and future sustainability but saying them is not the same as achieving them. We are concerned about the lack of fresh thinking and decisive action we heard from DHSC and NHSE. The scale of government’s ambitions is great, but senior officials do not seem to have ideas, or the drive, to match the level of change required, despite this being precisely the moment where such thinking is vital.