James Plunkett – Could the NHS leapfrog the rest on public sector digital work?:

I want to argue, however, for a more ambitious framing: that over the next five years, the NHS could leapfrog others in the public sector, and start to define what next generation public digital work looks like. I say this because the same things that have made the NHS tough terrain for digital work so far— the complexity of the environment and of the work itself, the decentralised nature of the system — now make it well-placed to become the frontier. This does not mean ignoring the basics. It means doing the basics in service of an ambitious vision; starting small, thinking big.

A loooooong read but definitely worth spending the time over (even if it is published on Medium, grrrrr).