Guest blog: How to rationalise legacy websites
Rebecca Kemp, Interim Deputy Director for Digital at Public Health England (PHE) talks about the thinking behind their digital transformation programme.
Services and products
Propositions, spend controls, website hosting, platforms, solutions, channels.
Delivering live events digitally
A hot topic in the Department of Health Digital team is how digital tools can be used to deliver and support live events.
Digital spend controls guidance: issue 2
Last year I wrote some basic guidance on navigating the digital spending controls following the introduction of new spend thresholds by the Government Digital Service (GDS).
A checklist for discovery – a basic guide of what to include
We (the portfolio management team) have been asked a few times lately about common pitfalls or reasons that digital spend requests might be rejected.
What we’re doing with our e-newsletters
About a year ago, Alice Ainsworth and I gave a presentation at Mail camp 2013 about our plans to update the Department of Health (DH) e-newsletter offering. This blog provides an update on how we’re getting on.
Should this be our problem?
'User first' is the mantra used within GDS and across government departments' digital projects. However sometimes, even if there is an identifiable user need it is not necessarily right that we – the government – are the ones to address …
Articulating your proposition – or - what is your problem?
The importance of an elevator pitch was drummed into me very early on in my career (I started off in advertising). This was because the ability to succinctly describe a client’s problem and our proposed solution significantly improved the chance …
First impressions from a Product Manager
As it’s now one month since I was welcomed into the Department of Health digital team, this seems a good time to share some thoughts and learnings so far. I was recruited as a Product Manager, a new role within …
But what if it's consistent with the proposition, but the platform doesn't do it (yet)?
I presented some of the findings of our work on the G8 dementia summit to the Digital Leaders the other week. The story I had to tell was about sustained open policy engagement over many months, using a range of …
Getting the most out of Citizen Space
We recently ran a survey of our internal DH Citizen Space users. Citizen Space is the digital tool that DH and a number of other local and central Government Departments use to run their consultations. Overall, our survey results were …