Personas
Personas reduce choice overload. Each path aligns with the 10‑Year Plan’s shifts (Hospital → Community, Analogue → Digital, Sickness → Prevention) and focuses on what you can ship in days: cleaner data, simple dashboards/APIs, and safe sharing.
Choose your starting point
💼 BI Analyst
KPIs, dashboards, and reproducible refreshes.
SQL Server · Power BI · Python · Dash/Evidence.dev
📈 Data Scientist
Predictive models, evaluation, and simple deployment.
Python · Pandas · scikit-learn · Dash/FastAPI
💻 Developer
Secure APIs and UIs that integrate NHS data.
FastAPI/Express · React/Next.js · Docker · AWS/Azure
🔧 Data Engineer
Ingest → transform → validate → publish pipelines.
Python ETL · Airflow · dbt · Great Expectations
🩺 Clinician‑Researcher
Audit‑quality analysis and interactive reports.
R/Python · Shiny/Dash · Quarto/Jupyter
🛡 Information Governance
Guardrails for privacy, security, and safe sharing.
DSPT · DPIA · Audit logs · Masking
What you’ll get in each quickstart
- 90‑minute build: an install, a minimal app/report/API, and how to run it.
- Week‑one plan: 5 small steps to reach a safe, repeatable baseline.
- IG checklist: secrets, logging, suppression, approvals.
- Impact metrics: what to measure to prove value and stability.
How this fits the NHS Digital Journey
🔍 Discover→ 📚 Learn→ 🛠 Build→ 📢 Share→ 🤖 AI & ML
- Start here with your role → jump to a Learn quickstart.
- Move to Build to productionise safely.
- Use Share to publish and collaborate.
- Add AI & ML enhancements when the foundations are solid.
What’s next?
You’ve completed the Discover → Personas stage. Keep momentum: