Digital champions, skills.
Arriving at Richmond House on a cold, overcast Monday morning, my expectations for the next 6 months were not sky high. Thankfully, my initial thoughts have been proved spectacularly and superbly, wrong! A bit about me My name is Katie. …
In two weeks digital and technology leads from across government will come together at Sprint 16, assessing progress over the last year and setting future priorities. In the run-up, I’ve been thinking about our own progress at the Department of …
We’ve now included service assessments in the DH digital spend control processes, which means you will need a service assessment if you are developing a new or improved digital service.
They say time flies when you’re having fun, so I guess it shouldn’t come as such a surprise to me that my time at DH is up, and I’m off to pastures new. Early into my posting here at DH, …
Today, a few people (including myself) announced the start of UKHealthCamp - an 'unconference' for for everyone interested in digital, design, technology and data for health and care. The first event is planned for November 28th 2015. Go to the website …
It’s the objective setting season. We’ve spent the last couple of months defining and agreeing what we will deliver in the next year, and how we will do it. I’m sure you have too. This year, we were setting objectives …
Last year an Annual Skills Survey here in DH concluded that about 20% of our staff considered themselves below ‘basic capability’ at digital stuff (with basic being defined as Level 7 on the Government Digital Strategy’s scale of inclusion). So …
It’s been 2 months since I arrived at DH, and was handed responsibility for our Digital Champions Network. This has given me a little time to mull over the idea and think about what that actually means, and I've had …
I joined the Department of Health as the head of digital strategy in July 2013. Since then, our little team has saved less than £1m, not created any new jobs, not revolutionised health and care, and not spent its budget. And that’s all a good thing.
We've blogged a lot recently about our review of how we run digital consultations. When we kicked off the project, we thought feedback would focus on the functionality of the tools we use. What we actually received was lots of …