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Lessons for content design in the alpha phase
Posted by:
Iain Cooper, Posted on:
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Categories:
Alpha, Content, Insight, Services and products, User research
Iain Cooper, Senior Content Designer at Public Health England (PHE), shares his experience of working on a service assessment alpha.
Changing the name of a service
Posted by:
Colin Pattinson, Posted on:
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Categories:
Beta, Content, Health Product People, HealthyStart, Helptobuyhealthyfoods, Services and products, User research
This blog post is about how and why the name of Healthy Start is changing. It discusses how the team is finding a new name and how the team will test if the name is good enough.
The most valuable Healthy Start resources
Posted by:
Colin Pattinson, Posted on:
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Categories:
Beta, Content, HealthyStart, Helptobuyhealthyfoods, Services and products, User research
This blog post is about a survey the team conducted exploring what resources people/organisations need to help deliver the Healthy Start service.
Talk Health and Care: engaging in a new space
The Department of Health and Social Care regularly asks for the public to engage with its work through different platforms. From sharing stories on GOV.UK to Twitter chats with community groups. On 10 September 2018, Matt Hancock launched Talk Health …
Using research to improve the GOV.UK experience
Do we understand what our users need? This is one of the many questions we often ask ourselves as content designers. Working in a 'government bubble' means that from time to time we need to go out and seek to …
40 days after GDPR...
As digital engagement manager, I create, develop and deliver engagement campaigns to help raise awareness of the work the department is doing, and this involved making sure the department was ready for GDPR. This work began when I joined in …
Consulting on young mental health
In December 2017, the government launched a consultation on the future of children and young people’s mental health provision. Mental health problems affect 1 in 10 children and young people. We therefore need to engage them in the conversation about …
Digital, Communities and Channels: team mission
I haven’t written a blog here for about a year, which is an indication of where the Digital, Communities and Channels team here at the Department of Health and Social Care has been at: quietly getting our house in order. …
Join the DH digital communities and channels team
At DH, the digital content and communities team help people understand our policies and make it easy for them to participate in the policy making process. We are looking to fill two roles. They will play a key part in …