Winning the IBM challenge with a Hoot
This guest blogpost is from Colin Pattinson - a digital and technology (DAT) fast streamer. Colin took part in the IBM challenge during his placement in the Department of Health Digital Strategy team.
Capability
Digital champions, skills.
Healthy Start alpha planning
In the last post we shared with you the key themes that emerged from the Healthy Start user research during our discovery phase. In this post we’d like to tell you about our plans for the alpha phase where we’ll be …
Healthy Start discovery - what we learned
In August we introduced you to the Healthy Start digital programme. The discovery phase of the programme has now concluded and we’re keen to share with you some of the things we’ve learned.
Introducing the NHS Jobs discovery
The NHS is the world’s 5th largest employer, coming in behind McDonalds.
Guest post: Stepping into the product owner role
I was lucky enough to be offered a place on the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) digital academy Product Owner course a couple of weeks ago over at Leeds One. This post is about what I experienced on the …
Health digital: we’re hiring
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Nayeema Chowdhury, Posted on:
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Capability, Jobs, Services and products, Strategy
Digital has huge potential to transform the health and care system by improving services, supporting new models of care and enabling a more efficient use of resources that allows more time to be spent on those most in need. The …
Introducing the Healthy Start discovery
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Matt Harrington and John Cockburn, Posted on:
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Capability, Services and products, User research
Hi, I’m Matt. I work in the Department of Health Digital team and my time is split between the NHS.UK Beta programme and the Healthy Start Scheme. On Healthy Start I’ll be offering support as a Product Manager. Hi, I’m …
Gifted amateurs, experts and people who don’t flit around
I think we’re at our best when we’re at our most expert. It’s a sentiment shared by the outgoing minister for the Cabinet Office who said the other day that the days of the gifted amateur are over, advising civil …
Building a digital community in health
Forming communities seems like a lot of work. It involves finding the right people, the right topics and the right venue. They need to be self-organising and people need to be engaged. But it’s something we’re keen to do for digital …
Relaunching the digital champions
The digital champions network in Department of Health has now entered its third year - and it has started with a bang. To relaunch the champions we first took a step back to think about how the network has operated …