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Our first internal Service Assessment

Posted by: Kylie Mulholland, Posted on: 10 October 2014 - Categories: Capability, Services and products

...We recruited a friendly contact from another Department, and someone I’d met on my Self Certification training at GDS. One person will be the Lead Assessor. The Service Team -...

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Guest blog: the importance of user testing

Posted by: Ben McGuinness, Posted on: 8 October 2014 - Categories: Insight, Services and products

Ben McGuinness, Digital Manager at NHS Blood and Transplant, talks about his recent experience in running a user testing session to help redevelop the online organ donation registration form. 

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Digital and change: what to get excited about

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 7 October 2014 - Categories: Strategy

I get excited when I notice something change for the better. Even more so when that change was made possible by the internet.

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Intranet: lessons learned

Posted by: Jason Caplin, Posted on: 6 October 2014 - Categories: Capability, Services and products, Strategy

One month ago we launched the Department's new intranet, including our new PolicyKit, in a fanfare of public sector savings, staff satisfaction, and another big win for small UK digital...

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Using Yammer to deliver informal learning

Posted by: Dave Briggs, Posted on: 30 September 2014 - Categories: Capability

...just one method. I've also set myself some rules to help me focus on what people here really need from learning activities: in context - learning should be delivered to...

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Guest blog: helping people get online for health

Posted by: Bob Gann, Posted on: 30 September 2014 - Categories: Capability

Bob Gann, Programme Director for Widening Digital Participation at NHS England, talks about an ambitious digital skills initiative to help people get online for health.

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Good enough metrics

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 22 September 2014 - Categories: Insight
An example of data plotted on a graph

A couple of weeks ago, as part of a development programme I'm doing through the GCS, I spent a week on a placement at Fabric, to learn a bit about what they do and how they do it.

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How far we've come: reflecting on 2 years of DH digital

Posted by: Alice Ainsworth, Posted on: 19 September 2014 - Categories: Capability, Content, Engagement, Services and products, Strategy

We're planning a teaching session on digital for Will Cavendish our new DG for innovation, growth and technology.

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Presenting the PolicyKit

Posted by: Susy Wootton, Posted on: 19 September 2014 - Categories: Capability, Policymaking, Services and products

Last week, as part of the new Department of Health intranet, we launched the PolicyKit.

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DH's new intranet: Not with a bang

Posted by: Jason Caplin, Posted on: 18 September 2014 - Categories: Content, Services and products
Image of the DH intranet homepage

...it replaces. The new intranet will cost around 15% of the running cost of Delphi, DH’s old intranet. But there’s more. At the moment core processes on the intranet –...

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