Campaigns, social media, online consultations, evaluation.
Isaac Smith, Technology Advisor, shares how and why the Healthy Start team created a map of Healthy Start voucher uptake.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Department of Health and Social Care launched a consultation on opt-out organ donation consent in December 2017. Most donated organs come from people who have died, but consent is required from the donor for this to happen, and many …
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. …
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 …
The last time the department’s communications function was subject to a capability review, the report said “the department’s digital capability was assessed as being very strong.” That was some time ago though, and a lot has happened since including huge …
I’ll be leaving my role at the Department of Health at the end of this week. I’ve decided that the time is right to do something else, but I’m sad to be going. I’m leaving behind people that I’ve loved …