Propositions, spend controls, website hosting, platforms, solutions, channels.
At SPRINT 14 last week Francis Maude referenced the “splat the rat” game we’re playing with government websites. You shut one and another one appears. At DH we haven’t created any new websites for a long time, but it has …
Joanna Blackburn, Head of Digital Communications at the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) talks about her teams experience with the move to GOV.UK. There was an equal measure of excitement and apprehension in the Medicines and Healthcare …
Over the last few months we’ve been inundated with freedom of information (FOI) requests and enquiries about native mobile applications and medical devices. To head-off some of this correspondence I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, …
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has introduced a new spending control threshold of £100,000 for digital. For some specific areas of digital the threshold remains ZERO, including for websites, domain registration, mobile apps, digital transactions and ID assurance for the …
UPDATE: A new threshold of £100,000 for digital was introduced on 3 July 2013, with some exceptions. Read the letter from William Jordan, Director General at the Efficiency and Reform Group (ERG, Cabinet Office. All money spent on digital services …
Summary In line with Civil Service Reform and wider government policy, the Department of Health encourages its staff to use internet tools that aid productivity or provide useful functionality. But staff should be aware that tools provided by third parties …
I wrote a few weeks ago about changes to DH's digital operations, and our plans to streamline the number of digital channels we use. Stephen Hale also wrote recently about the types of digital content we use to explain policy, …
At Healthcare Innovation Expo 2013
Digital content is integral to our communication and policy engagement work. The department's digital strategy sets out how the the department will use digital tools and techniques to improve its policymaking process and communicate with its external audiences. Digital tools …
We made some big changes to DH’s digital operations last week, though hopefully hardly anyone will have noticed... On Wednesday morning we migrated our wordpress subsites to their new hosting environment, and they’re now being managed by a small wordpress-specialist …