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 …
In December 2017, the government launched a consultation on the future of children and young people’s mental health provision. Mental health problems affect 1 in 10 children and young people. We therefore need to engage them in the conversation about …
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 …
The GP Provide Information Collection (PIC) service is an information collection service that enables GP practices to share up-to-date information with CQC and other regulators that describes the practice’s view of the quality of care they are providing against the …
The Surgical Site Infection Electronic Patient Post-Discharge questionnaire is part of the Surgical Site Infection (SSI) surveillance used by Public Health England (PHE) to monitor the rate of infections associated with short-stay surgery and create a picture of a hospital’s …
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 …
When I first joined the Cyber Security and Innovation team, it was a very busy time, with a rapidly expanding team and remit. The team is split across London and Leeds, and between us all covers a wide range of …
The Department of Health and Social Care launched a consultation on opt-out organ donation consent in December 2017. Most donated organs come from people who have died, but consent is required from the donor for this to happen, and many …
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. …