Frankie Roberto

A pedestrianised Oxford Street! What a joy. Already so many people walking in the road. It’ll only get better too, once the paving and planting and benches are in. Well done to @london.gov.uk and team for getting it done!

Do I know anyone who works for @wellcomecollection.bsky.social still?

Do I know anyone who works for @wellcomecollection.bsky.social still?

Enjoyed going to see Kiki’s Delivery Service at the Barbican with my daughter today. Somehow it’s the first Studio Ghibli film I’ve seen. Very beautiful.

Weeknotes for last week are about how we, as a cross-cutting team, can best communicate with the other teams we’re dependent on. Tricky! frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

The most stressful thing about running all day training sessions, as I am today, is having precisely 15 mins to ‘check in’ to the room I booked months ago, or else risk losing it to someone sniping it from me last minute.

Enjoyed watching @jetlagthegame.bsky.social finale in cinema. Lots of laughs, groans and claps from the audience!

Managed to resist the temptation to buy mince pies. Too soon. Will wait for October.

My weeknotes for last week: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

I’ve just released a new version of the NHS Prototype kit. 🎉 The main new feature is a “formatTime” filter which uses 12 hour clock and midday/midnight instead of 12am/pm, to avoid confusion. See prototype-kit.service-manual.nhs.uk/guides/filte...

Love these. Naming your online webpages after the colour of the book cover it used to be published in is the content equivalent of services named after old forms, like V5C and P11D.

Weeknotes this week are a reflection on balancing short term and long term work: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

I’m on holiday but it’s great to read this write-up from my team of the NHS App hackathon I took part in before I went away. 💙

Standard breakfast. No really, that’s what it’s called on the menu. Standardfrühstück.

Great paving pattern here in Innsbruck. Looks irregular but isn’t.

I’ve taken the kids to Swarovski Crystal World in Austria. It’s as bling as you might imagine but also really good.

I’m on a sleeper train! In a couchette compartment for 4 with my kids. Our proper happy place. Heading to the Alps!

Weeknotes for last week: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

Viva Espana! 🇪🇸🇪🇸 A tense final, but loved watching it with my 6yo. (Thankfully no school tomorrow)

💯 this Pricing high to allow for discounting as an insidious practice that has no place in public services.

The GOVUK design system team have today added the interruption page pattern and component: design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/int... - based on previous work by teams across government. 🎉 This is a great example of where it is sometimes helpful to add some friction into a digital journey.

Well done Spain. Looked like they were having fun. Will be tough opponents to beat.

Weeknotes this week are about designing the digital equivalent of the tear-off strip: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

Weeknotes from the heat wave: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

Enjoyed taking the kids to see the legendary @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social with MC Grammar at @londonkidslitfest.bsky.social!

I love walking to work under such a thick canopy of London plane trees at this time of year. So much cooler beneath them, and an incredible shade of green.

My 100th weeknote: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

I enjoyed Toy Story 5 with my kids today. Lots of fun moments, and the toys vs tech conceit was meaningful without being over played.

An existential headline: BBC To Axe The World Tonight Seems a bit extreme? 🌍🪓

Published today with @kinship.works NHS Operating Patterns - Ways to do good work together, in a decentralised system

A nice design history post from the NHS app team looking at how to make NHS website content feel part of the (future) more native NHS app: design-history.nhsapp.service.nhs.uk/native/2026/...

My weeknotes for last week are a bit more personal than normal: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

I got Canada in the work sweepstake for World Cup. Not fancying my chances! (Luckily there are also some prize categories for things like worst goal difference in a match)

Enjoyed visiting the brand new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration with the kids today. Worth a visit! qbcentre.org.uk

Yes yes Arsenal! #COYG

It is hot.

Notes from 2 years working on the NHS Record a vaccination service: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos... After half term I start a new role within a new team in NHS digital prevention services. More on that anon!

Having a (hopefully temporary) hearing issue has made in-person collaboration a challenge today. Remote working does have the advantage of being able to amplify everyone’s voices! Still prefer being in the office though.

We did it! The streets have gone wild around here! 🏆⚽️ #COYG

Yes yes Bournemouth! #COYG

Love this post from a colleague on how digital prevention services fit with neighbourhood health: design-history.prevention-services.nhs.uk/policy-and-c... Figuring out how national meets local is one of the key challenges to working in the NHS.

GP told me today that I should stop using earbuds headphones (causing hearing issues), so I’m in the market for over-ear headphones. Any recommendations? 🎧 Need a set with a mic for all the work Teams calls…