Digital strategy.
I’m the Digital Assurance Manager at DH and I want to tell you about a recent session we held on how to procure digital services and skills. Engaging bodies It won’t be any news that collaborating across teams and departmental …
This is the third in a series of blogs about my role in DH 2020, the department’s programme to become a better, leaner organisation. At the Department of Health we are redefining and restructuring many of our teams as part …
Email doesn’t seem to be many people’s priority these days. And I understand why, it can feel like an outdated channel of communication compared with the all-singing, all-dancing opportunities of snapchat or Facebook chatbots.
My time at the Department of Health will shortly be ending. I leave proud to have worked with such an impressive team - this blog highlights some of their achievements, from generating the highest number of visits ever to a …
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 …
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 …
Since the end of January I’ve been doing a slightly different job at the department, working on communications performance and improvement, alongside my work in the digital team. It’s a pragmatic arrangement for the department, enabling us to cover a …
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 …
I joined the Civil Service a few months ago and one of the things both my parting and joining managers advised me to do was make the most of a particularly valuable time-limited offer: the fresh perspective. So I took …
It’s been 3 months since I last blogged about the wall, and I thought I should probably share how it’s all going. The short answer is, really well! Since we launched the wall, each team has held a little meeting …