Digital strategy.
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 …
My first job when I turned up in the DH Digital team was to review how we decide what to do next. I’m working in the strategy team, which means that alongside the work I do on raising capability within …
Back in August, we introduced you to the ‘Having a baby’ discovery project, an exciting new research project we’re running. The project seeks to better understand the maternity journey through the experiences of women and families who are having a …
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, …
I'm Leisa Reichelt and I lead the user research community at the Government Digital Service (GDS). I'm very excited to see the Having a baby project is underway as it fits perfectly with the kind of user research we're doing at …
As you’ll have seen from the previous blog post, we here at Livework have been lucky enough to be working with the digital team on this exciting and important project, Having a Baby. And, as project leader and senior service …
A few weeks ago the DH digital team embarked on a research project to look at the experiences of women and their partners who are having a baby. We wanted to take a broad view of how people interact with …
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.