Practical guidance for adopting open source tooling and open coding

[wbryant]

Part of what-is-the-need-in-the-system that could be of great benefit would be a knowledgebase/playbook for adopting and supporting open source tools and mindsets in the NHS. For instance someone shared some great resources addressing (I think) getting authorisation for R installation and running open source tools.

It's quite a broad topic so could be honed for NHS-R but I think it's a great community to be involved in that sort of work.

[wbryant]

The content of this is addressed somewhat in the following section, but not how such information would be delivered.

[ChrisBeeley]

Kind of thinking aloud here, a collection of relevant links for reference

• https://nhsx.github.io/AnalyticsUnit/experiences.html
• https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/blogs/data-saves-lives-building-and-skilling-nhs-analytics-community/
• https://nhsx.github.io/AnalyticsUnit/toolstackrequests.html
• https://nhsx.github.io/AnalyticsUnit/codeintheopen.html

General open code stuff

• https://github.com/nhsx/open-source-policy
• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-saves-lives-reshaping-health-and-social-care-with-data-draft/data-saves-lives-reshaping-health-and-social-care-with-data-draft