In the Digital Technology and Strategy team, we routinely team up with policy professionals to work on digital projects. Coming from different backgrounds and with different approaches, it is important to decide how the collaboration will work before starting work. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
If you want to survive an avalanche, it turns out that one thing you’ll need in your survival kit is an algorithm.
I’ve been thinking about the future of the Digital Engagement Team at DH. If you’ve been reading any of Stephen’s blogs, you’ll have read about some of the changes happening here at DH. The department is getting smaller, and we are …
We’re looking for a Digital Engagement Manager to join the DH digital team. If you want to find out what makes people take action, learn about online behaviours and deliver best in class digital communications services, this could be the …
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 …