NHSDigital/nbs-appointments-management-service
Oct 2024 – Jan 2025
4 Months active
Languages Used
C#GherkinJavaScriptTypeScriptJSONCSSXMLtsx
Technical Skills
API DevelopmentAPI TestingAzure FunctionsBDDBackend DevelopmentData Persistence
ste-banks
PROFILE
Ste-banks
Stephen Banks contributed to the NHSDigital/nbs-appointments-management-service by delivering robust scheduling and appointment management features over four months. He engineered site-scoped booking and cancellation APIs, enhanced daily and weekly availability endpoints, and integrated comprehensive validation and access control into both backend and frontend workflows. Using C#, TypeScript, and React, Stephen refactored data models for accuracy, improved error handling, and expanded test coverage with unit and integration tests. His work included UI redesigns, permission-aware actions, and synchronization of API documentation. These efforts improved data integrity, user experience, and maintainability, demonstrating a deep, end-to-end approach to healthcare service engineering.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
71%Features
Repository Contributions
101Total
Bugs
12
Commits
101
Features
30
Lines of code
6,878
Activity Months4
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181 people
Work History
January 2025
23 Commits • 8 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 (2025-01) summary for NHSDigital/nbs-appointments-management-service: Delivered API and UI enhancements to support site-scoped workflows, improved data integrity and reporting, and strengthened testing and quality. Key items include optional site parameters for booking and cancel endpoints; provisional status handling integrated into booking checks; correction of day view counting to exclude cancelled appointments; Manual Cancellations UI improvements with proper tab states and permission gating; optional message parameter in UI; extensive tests and model updates; and code cleanup and safer element access (ElementAtOrDefault). Ongoing work includes a new cancel session endpoint (WIP).
23 Commits • 8 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 (2025-01) summary for NHSDigital/nbs-appointments-management-service: Delivered API and UI enhancements to support site-scoped workflows, improved data integrity and reporting, and strengthened testing and quality. Key items include optional site parameters for booking and cancel endpoints; provisional status handling integrated into booking checks; correction of day view counting to exclude cancelled appointments; Manual Cancellations UI improvements with proper tab states and permission gating; optional message parameter in UI; extensive tests and model updates; and code cleanup and safer element access (ElementAtOrDefault). Ongoing work includes a new cancel session endpoint (WIP).
January 2025
December 2024
27 Commits • 6 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 — NHSDigital/nbs-appointments-management-service Key features delivered: - Daily Availability API and Week View: new endpoint to fetch daily availability within a date range; week view wired to the endpoint; detailed day model with pagination; comprehensive unit/integration tests; Postman collection updated. - Appointment Cancellation Flow: UI and backend integration for cancel flow, including form options, submission, and navigation to cancelled page with missing-page error handling. - Time service: unit tests added to improve reliability and coverage. - UI/navigation/site redesign and navigation: back-button navigation, service name update in header, site details page redesign; end-to-end tests updated. - Testing improvements: broader unit test updates across batch. Major bugs fixed: - Overlapping sessions display bug: corrected display logic for booked appointments in overlapping sessions. - Consistency rename: changed references from 'to' to 'until' across endpoints/models. Overall impact and accomplishments: - More accurate and faster scheduling data, reducing manual work and errors; improved developer confidence via higher test coverage and code quality; aligned naming conventions for maintainability; Postman/API test suite kept in sync. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - REST API design, unit/integration/testing, Postman, UI integration, test automation, code refactoring and PR hygiene.
December 2024
27 Commits • 6 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 — NHSDigital/nbs-appointments-management-service Key features delivered: - Daily Availability API and Week View: new endpoint to fetch daily availability within a date range; week view wired to the endpoint; detailed day model with pagination; comprehensive unit/integration tests; Postman collection updated. - Appointment Cancellation Flow: UI and backend integration for cancel flow, including form options, submission, and navigation to cancelled page with missing-page error handling. - Time service: unit tests added to improve reliability and coverage. - UI/navigation/site redesign and navigation: back-button navigation, service name update in header, site details page redesign; end-to-end tests updated. - Testing improvements: broader unit test updates across batch. Major bugs fixed: - Overlapping sessions display bug: corrected display logic for booked appointments in overlapping sessions. - Consistency rename: changed references from 'to' to 'until' across endpoints/models. Overall impact and accomplishments: - More accurate and faster scheduling data, reducing manual work and errors; improved developer confidence via higher test coverage and code quality; aligned naming conventions for maintainability; Postman/API test suite kept in sync. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - REST API design, unit/integration/testing, Postman, UI integration, test automation, code refactoring and PR hygiene.
November 2024
40 Commits • 12 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 – NHSDigital/nbs-appointments-management-service Overview: The team delivered impactful front-end validation improvements, enhanced booking data support, and strengthened access control, while stabilizing CI/test, and refining weekly availability and month-view workflows. These changes improve data quality, security, and user experience for scheduling across NHS services. Key deliverables and business value: - Front-end Validation Enhancements: stricter rules, character restrictions, optional fields, and updated error messaging with tests (commits: edf5095036cd5cbe2716a2a25370a68f14d13a3c; 76cda175f459fe171abb23e042e575638808196b; bb720919e048016714bdf18b17392b3bc164b213; 77fd05bb9fd1111f59db0665fa9dfd04103fd377; 29ececb9269cb535ab0789220f1961b0b1716270; 2395fcf4baba9e2058a44e93a8dfec08e0017c54; 5d1761cb4f30d03d4bfc36aa8b90abe9bae942f4; 59b36fe52118990711bf18373f62642b704a017e). - Make Booking API Enhancement: added additionalData property to support extra booking information (commit: 19b76ee687fe8b3ff3b6e83390dbfdcb5e4d16d9). - Access Control and Permissions: prevent users from altering their own roles and prevent direct URL access to the manage user page (commits: 9e41c8e596e14c04bd8337961b89ec7dc03f1c32; 6de05b55f91c48aa7d9b13e8b1485a28c8b81a1a). - Calendar Month View: pagination and corrected weekly availability calculations (commits: 859c13c9678fcd8bc1a18994a8ebb8b1f1c2d8d5; b20e8f9a7f1412eb9890658b200d807ee148cc4f). - Testing & CI Stabilization: fixes for failing tests and changes after merging main to stabilize the test suite (commits: 4a8e38f49bc9e8d4af878709e305c9ed0f8ea6ce; 89ee0a1484d7b60f6a934a369696f744ca5b1dd4; e962678c823e7c4f26bdae2b14bd3a50468c202a). Other notable work included UI copy/header updates and ongoing code maintenance, contributing to a more reliable release cadence and improved developer productivity.
40 Commits • 12 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 – NHSDigital/nbs-appointments-management-service Overview: The team delivered impactful front-end validation improvements, enhanced booking data support, and strengthened access control, while stabilizing CI/test, and refining weekly availability and month-view workflows. These changes improve data quality, security, and user experience for scheduling across NHS services. Key deliverables and business value: - Front-end Validation Enhancements: stricter rules, character restrictions, optional fields, and updated error messaging with tests (commits: edf5095036cd5cbe2716a2a25370a68f14d13a3c; 76cda175f459fe171abb23e042e575638808196b; bb720919e048016714bdf18b17392b3bc164b213; 77fd05bb9fd1111f59db0665fa9dfd04103fd377; 29ececb9269cb535ab0789220f1961b0b1716270; 2395fcf4baba9e2058a44e93a8dfec08e0017c54; 5d1761cb4f30d03d4bfc36aa8b90abe9bae942f4; 59b36fe52118990711bf18373f62642b704a017e). - Make Booking API Enhancement: added additionalData property to support extra booking information (commit: 19b76ee687fe8b3ff3b6e83390dbfdcb5e4d16d9). - Access Control and Permissions: prevent users from altering their own roles and prevent direct URL access to the manage user page (commits: 9e41c8e596e14c04bd8337961b89ec7dc03f1c32; 6de05b55f91c48aa7d9b13e8b1485a28c8b81a1a). - Calendar Month View: pagination and corrected weekly availability calculations (commits: 859c13c9678fcd8bc1a18994a8ebb8b1f1c2d8d5; b20e8f9a7f1412eb9890658b200d807ee148cc4f). - Testing & CI Stabilization: fixes for failing tests and changes after merging main to stabilize the test suite (commits: 4a8e38f49bc9e8d4af878709e305c9ed0f8ea6ce; 89ee0a1484d7b60f6a934a369696f744ca5b1dd4; e962678c823e7c4f26bdae2b14bd3a50468c202a). Other notable work included UI copy/header updates and ongoing code maintenance, contributing to a more reliable release cadence and improved developer productivity.
November 2024
October 2024
11 Commits • 4 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 monthly summary for NHSDigital/nbs-appointments-management-service focusing on delivering robust data handling, improved UI consistency, and stronger test coverage to boost reliability and time-to-value.
October 2024
11 Commits • 4 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 monthly summary for NHSDigital/nbs-appointments-management-service focusing on delivering robust data handling, improved UI consistency, and stronger test coverage to boost reliability and time-to-value.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness87.0%
Maintainability86.8%
Architecture81.0%
Performance82.8%
AI Usage20.8%
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.NETAPI DevelopmentAPI IntegrationAPI TestingAutoMapperAzure FunctionsBDDBDD TestingBackend DevelopmentC#CSSCode OrganizationCode RefactoringCosmos DBData Modeling
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