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The design and development work for the infographic produced to help illustrate an overview of the new health and care system cost £3,705. It was commissioned from an external agency via a Government Procurement Service contract.
We surveyed the users of the DH website recently, as we're obliged to each year by the Public Accounts Committee. We asked the standard questions - the same ones being asked on every government website - and added nothing else …
Last night, the Government Digital Service took the password off the Inside Government bit of the GOV.UK beta. It's the part of the beta that shows how GOV.UK will replace all the different websites run by government departments and other …
The publishing machine is a relatively small part of our corporate digital effort at the Department of Health. We try to service it as efficiently as we possibly can so that we can focus more of our creative energy elsewhere, …
I really like the thinking behind the corporate publishing bit of the single gov.uk domain. I like the simplicity of what the departments participating in the beta have been asked to do so far: to describe what the Government's objectives …
I'm quite pleased with this: Health conversations. It's a simple thing - a different way of presenting content that already appears somewhere else on dh.gov.uk. We're using it as the DH version of a blogs homepage. We're pulling content from a few different sources - …
If all goes to plan this weekend, the corporate bits of the DH web presence will be simpler and a bit easier to use on Monday morning. I've mentioned before what's driving this work, and some of the things that …
We're about to simplify the content we provide via the Department of Health corporate website. The website won't look that different once we've done it. But we will have made some pretty big changes to the way we generate and …
We need to change the way we create, publish and manage digital content in the Department of Health. We need to do it now. There are a few reasons why: The Department of Health is changing. We'll soon be responsible …
We've been rationalising government websites for almost as long as I can remember. But there are still lots of government websites, and at the Department of Health we're responsible for our fair share. Last year, in the spirit of transparency, …