Susy and I ran a GCS comms exchange event the other day about digital approaches to running consultations in the department. You can watch the session below. It's quite long, so you might want to skip to the good bits: 0.00 …
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.
In the past we've called it 'policy'. But I don't think that's the right word any more.
If you haven’t heard of her already, there is a remarkable lady called Kate Swaffer. She is, as she puts it in her twitter biography, an advocate for people with dementia, living well with young onset dementia, a speaker, author, …
We've blogged a lot recently about our review of how we run digital consultations. When we kicked off the project, we thought feedback would focus on the functionality of the tools we use. What we actually received was lots of …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTQl_GMcpy8&feature=youtu.be In November 2014, the digital team held its first ever Digital Show & Tell for our colleagues in the Department.
Last week, as part of the new Department of Health intranet, we launched the PolicyKit.
Rachel Purkett, Digital Media Manager at Monitor talks about a recent crowdsourcing campaign that has helped to improve policy development in the organisation. At Monitor we recently concluded our second ever ‘crowdsourcing’ campaign. We used a new online platform to …
It seems like every training session we run at DH starts with the same quip. How many of you bank online? Who bought something at Amazon this month? Have you ever checked up on your children on Facebook? … And …
I was the only member of my first government digital communications team. I was a Website Manager, and managing a website was the limit of my responsibilities. Digital communication teams have got a bit bigger, and have become responsible for …