#python and #nhsdata #nhstech people - just announcing something I've been working on for the last few weeks with some colleagues - an #opensource Python library for #NHSnumber validation. The need emerged from other work I was doing in which we needed to validate NHS numbers entered by clinicians. Clearly the validation is not super hard to write code for, but it's a #wasteofbrains for everyone to have to implement it themselves.

Welcome to HN. The hashtags look a bit silly. That's not the usual conversation style here. Rest of your comment seems good and on topic. You may also want to prefix your post title with "Show HN: " because that is essentially what you are doing. That prefix will also put your post in the "show" list. Good project. Congratulations!

Hi, I'm one of the founders of NHSbuntu. Thanks for making a thread on Hacker News about us, we really feel like we've made it!

Just to reassure people who maybe think because of the timing of our launch that we had something to do with the recent NHS Cyber Attacks, it was just an unfortunate coincidence.

I'm an NHS doctor and the rest of the team are NHS tech specialists, including a Technical Architect and a CIO. We've no interest in ransoming the NHS, but we did want to disruptively highlight the non-Microsoft OS options available.

We know the name NHSbuntu is a bit stupid, for several reasons, but (for the target audience) in 8 characters it does explain what we're trying to do fairly concisely. Neither Canonical or the NHS Brand Police seem particularly upset by it, so that's a good sign. Maybe in the future we'll have to change to something more suitable.

Anyone wanting to get involved please join in at www.nhsbuntu.org (we have a Slack team and a forum) - we are trying to build a team of contributors.