I think clinicians, patients and commissioners have a right to expect a level of evidence for digital tools that is equivalent to the level of evidence for other interventions that we use in healthcare. – Clinical academic, London This year …
In March, our team at Public Health England (PHE) wrapped up a discovery phase, exploring how to support children and their families on healthier weight journeys. Helping families follow healthier lifestyles, including reaching a healthier weight, is a national priority. …
The challenge space Public Health England’s (PHE) digital weight management programme explores the role digital could play in a family’s healthier weight journey. There are an increasing number of children with excess weight across England, with over a third of …
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 …
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 …
Continuing our series looking at how policy and non-digital teams are using digital tools and approaches to undertake their work, we have a guest post from Kavita, from the Obesity, Food and Nutrition Team here at DHSC on her role …
Continuing our series looking at how policy and non-digital teams are using digital tools and approaches to undertake their work, we have a guest post from Emily at the Human Tissue Authority on doing User Research as part of a …
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 …