It’s the objective setting season. We’ve spent the last couple of months defining and agreeing what we will deliver in the next year, and how we will do it. I’m sure you have too. This year, we were setting objectives …
Last year an Annual Skills Survey here in DH concluded that about 20% of our staff considered themselves below ‘basic capability’ at digital stuff (with basic being defined as Level 7 on the Government Digital Strategy’s scale of inclusion). So …
It’s been 2 months since I arrived at DH, and was handed responsibility for our Digital Champions Network. This has given me a little time to mull over the idea and think about what that actually means, and I've had …
I blogged in March about the potential for digital delivery to transform the health and care system and about some great new roles to help do that. We’ve completed that recruitment round and I’m really excited about the talented individuals …
We've just advertised another job in the DH digital team: Digital strategy and policy lead. I think it's a great job. You'll be helping us to think through and deliver pioneering digital work in the the Department of Health through …
I joined the Department of Health as the head of digital strategy in July 2013. Since then, our little team has saved less than £1m, not created any new jobs, not revolutionised health and care, and not spent its budget. And that’s all a good thing.
Through the work of our Digital Content and Engagement teams, we've recognised a couple of clear end user needs when it comes to Government communications:
In the past we've called it 'policy'. But I don't think that's the right word any more.
23 March 2015 marked the one year anniversary of day that the World Health Organization declared an Ebola outbreak. The disease has taken the lives of over 10,000 men, women and children in west Africa. At the Department of Health …
Digital delivery has huge potential to transform the health and care system –improving services to patients, supporting new models of care, driving efficiencies that allow more time to be spent on those most in need. The NHS deals with over …