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 …
...burning rubber Building an intranet sounded like a really irrelevant thing to do. But 9 months of hard graft proved so many things. First, you need a shop window. We...
...the different sites under a single URL and devolved content ownership to the relevant teams. Sound familiar? The new platform is consistent with the GOV.UK approach as far as possible....
..."to allow or even require a different operating model for government." So say two powerhouses of government leadership, Mike Bracken (at GDS) and Paul Maltby (at the Cabinet Office). They're...
...the nurses and assisted us in learning how best to tailor our comms. We didn’t rely on Twitter alone – you’re never going to reach all your audiences through only...
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 …
If you haven’t heard of her already, there is a remarkable lady called Kate Swaffer. She is, as she puts it in her twitter biography, an advocate for people with dementia, living well with young onset dementia, a speaker, author, …