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Shan Rahulan

Shan Rahulan is Director of Core Services, Platforms


Shan Rahulan is Director of Core Services within the Product and Platforms group of NHS England. The Core Services group provides the enabling services to make integrating with health technology in the NHS easier. This team manages the Spine and API platforms which connect thousands of health services together.

Previously, Shan worked in both the public and private sectors architecting and developing infrastructure services and policies such as the GOV.UK GovWifi service to make technology easier to use.


Blogs

Two healthcare workers using digital devices
By Shan Rahulan, Mark Burton. 16 March 2023 What does the future NHS Spine look like?

Shan Rahulan and Mark Burton describe plans to modernise the Spine platform and invite IT professionals to help shape the future.
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By Shan Rahulan. 7 April 2022 (Re)using the right tools for the job

Shan Rahulan, Director of Platforms - Core Services, argues that we shouldn’t try to reinvent the wheel every time we build a product.