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. …
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 …
As part of a new series looking at how policy teams within Department of Health and Social Care are using digital tools, we asked Fateha, who’s currently part of a policy & programme team leading on a new digital project, …