Social media insights and evaluation, GOV.UK stats, user research, stakeholder mapping
Towards the end of last year, I popped across the Thames from Public Health England’s (PHE) London offices to the Department of Health (DH) in Victoria. I’d just being loaned to DH Digital to lead on upskilling and coaching a …
Continuing our series looking at how policy and non-digital teams are using digital tools and approaches to undertake their work, we have a guest post from Kavita, from the Obesity, Food and Nutrition Team here at DHSC on her role …
Continuing our series looking at how policy and non-digital teams are using digital tools and approaches to undertake their work, we have a guest post from Emily at the Human Tissue Authority on doing User Research as part of a …
Back at the beginning of January 2017, Pete Sinden joined the Care Quality Commission (CQC) as the new Chief Digital Officer. This was the culmination of a lot of work to be able to articulate the value of a change …
Digital assurance and innovation If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know that we (the DH Digital Technology and Strategy team) run a Service Transformation and Standards community designed to bring colleagues involved in digital projects from our …
As you might remember, if you’re a regular reader of this blog, we (the DH Digital Technology and Strategy team) run a Service Transformation and Standards community. The aim of the group, which launched at the end of 2016, is …
Here at DH Digital Technology & Strategy, we provide digital advice, support and assurance to 15 different organisations – the Department itself, plus 14 arm’s length bodies (ALBs). Last year, my colleague Hong Nguyen told you about the launch of …
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’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 …
I’ve mentioned in other blogs that the Department of Health is changing. The changes have all been carefully designed of course. But change is hard, so we’re doing some work now to check that we’ve got the digital bits right, and …