FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions

Pulpp is an open source information service and knowledge base and community offering, guidance, reusable templates, and a broad array of content that can be used to support digital transformation in the NHS. Content is created from across the community, so unlike traditional consultancy, where you only get the outputs of your requirements, you will receive the outputs from the whole community. This content is curated and made available through a simple wiki and basic tools making its accessible and open. All content is licensed under Creative Commons SA-BY 4.0 so subscribers are free to use the outputs of Pulpp in almost any way including commercially.

Pulpp is a micro business. It is owned by me (David Mizon). It is not built and owned by a large organisation nor do I have any nefarious agenda. I have created the Pulpp Principles and a suite of governing documents that keep me honest and let the community know who and what Pulpp is for.

Pulpp brings together a community of like-minded organisations from public, private, and academic sectors. Many government knowledge bases only allow public sector input. Transformation needs skills and insights from across all sectors and the ability for cross pollination of ideas. A community creates a clear focus, goals, and principles, that are bought into by its members which cannot be achieved by a single private entity. The aim of the community is to create a collaboration-first approach to problem solving.

£10,000 (ex. VAT) per year for an organisation wide licence to access the Pulpp repositories and all Pulpp open source content. Discounts are available for micro-businesses and students.

Full access to all Pulpp content, knowledge base, and forum. and the option to ask up to 10 specific questions per year to be answered as part of the Pulpp Clarifications Project which gives subscribers a way to direct the focus on Pulpp. Pulpp is designed for its community, by its community.

There are some fair usage restrictions on the number of users that will be given access to the online wiki and forum. This is only to keep things fair while Pulpp is young. I will look to minimise restrictions wherever possible.

To reduce the barriers to finding the right information from across the web and to reduce the duplication of efforts in finding guidance and support to solve similar issues related to transformation. Unlike traditional consultancy, which often seeks to resell the same guidance and documentation, Pulpp aims to eliminate duplication by sharing all its work with the community. Subscribers pay a smaller fee but get the benefit of input and questions from the whole community.

lower consultancy spend. greater collaboration with peers. Lower duplication of effort. Improved accessibility to information. Freedom to use outputs how you want. Pulpp exists to provide free-to-use guidance and documentation to organisations that may otherwise contact an external agency to provide guidance and build documents. Much of this guidance is freely available and based on Government content - the problem is finding the content in the first place. Pulpp aims to lower costs of accessing information and knowledge as well as collaborate with a wider community to ensure efforts are not duplicated. For example, if a Supplier has a good "lesson learned" from a project, it can share that with the community without others having to make the same mistake. Perhaps you work for a Trust that just created a strong set of requirements for a system. Those can be shared and built upon by the whole community saving time, effort, and money.

At the moment Pulpp is not for everyone. It is targeted at the NHS, its suppliers, and academic institutions working in health and care. It is primarily available to organisations. If you are an individual please contact us.

Pulpp is built using simple, tested technologies, most of which are open source wherever possible. For online use, there is a wiki handling the main knowledge base, a forum for discussions, and after that I rely mostly on email (because everyone has it and sometimes you don't want to visit a website). Pulpp is also keen to have offline versions and for this we revert to good old fashioned plain text to give subscribers the least vendor lock-in possible. For developmental versions of documents I use GitHub and can provide access to those wishing to collaborate directly.

Pulpp outputs are open source. This is the major benefit of the service. Anything that is created in Pulpp can be used in almost any way, including changed and adapted, passed on, or even sold. This means that Pulpp is extremely useful for finding guidance and document templates which can be downloaded and tailored to your needs without issue. Pulpp is designed for freedom.