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The Health Product People community was started in January 2018 to bring together people working on digital services across the health and care space. We wanted to bring together people to share ideas, collaborate and work together to solve problems. …
Following the Cabinet Office’s recent update of its digital and technology spend controls to include the 'pipeline' assurance process, I thought it was worth describing the work we have started in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and …
Over the past few months, we’ve been working with colleagues from across our community of arm's length bodies (ALBs) to understand how we could improve the advice and guidance around digital spend controls. This has been a partnership between Public …
I am what is affectionately known as a policy wonk in the Patient Safety team in NHS Improvement, and we’re working on an exciting new digital service to support better learning from patient safety incidents. The new service will replace …
I haven’t written a blog here for about a year, which is an indication of where the Digital, Communities and Channels team here at the Department of Health and Social Care has been at: quietly getting our house in order. …
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 …
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 part of the work the Digital and Technology Strategy team are currently doing on revising guidance and support for spend controls, we have invited Kassandra Karpathakis from Public Health England (PHE) to talk about some of the work the team at …
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 …