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uk-fci / nhs-number

Python package to provide utilities for NHS Numbers, including validity checks, normalisation, and generation.
https://nhs-number.uk-fci.tech/
MIT License
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New home for NHS Numbers library / change GitHub Organisation name? following the demise of the FCI #34

Open pacharanero opened 7 months ago

pacharanero commented 7 months ago

During last summer, when we were polishing and publishing this library, the FCI (Faculty of Clinical Informatics) was a going concern, hence we set this library up under their GitHub organisation - however since then the FCI has undergone a Total Existence Failure, after a series of internal constitutional and financial dèbacles link

Some of its functions are being folded into a specialist group of the British Computer Society link, but it's by no means certain that this new group will be considered as the default 'successor' of the FCI.

A different group of people have gone ahead and set up UK Digital Health and Care (UKDHC) which again, is embryonic and not necessarily something we can rely on at this stage.

I am not sure that any of the above options are what we need for nhs-numbers and would be open to suggestions from the team/community.

We have ownership and control over this GitHub org (uk-fci) and it would be quite simple to rename the org, once we know what we want to call it.

Perhaps we could rename it to something that suggests we have aspirations to provide other open source NHS related stuff? There is plenty of scope. Alternatively the repo could be taken over by the RCPCH, which is an established open source player in the NHS, is mostly a Python shop, and is where I work so I can ensure the repo is maintained..

pacharanero commented 7 months ago

One option here could be to transfer the ownership of the repo into the NHS Pycom community, but we remain as maintainers? According to NHS Pycom website they share the same sort of aims: https://nhs-pycom.net/

@craig-shenton would this be of interest?