What I learnt from championing the champions
They say time flies when you’re having fun, so I guess it shouldn’t come as such a surprise to me that my time at DH is up, and I’m off to pastures new. Early into my posting here at DH, …
Guest blog: Understanding user needs that cross government boundaries
I'm Leisa Reichelt and I lead the user research community at the Government Digital Service (GDS). I'm very excited to see the Having a baby project is underway as it fits perfectly with the kind of user research we're doing at …
Guest blog: Oodles of curiosity, heaps of empathy and lots of patience
As you’ll have seen from the previous blog post, we here at Livework have been lucky enough to be working with the digital team on this exciting and important project, Having a Baby. And, as project leader and senior service …
What we're doing on: content
Our digital strategies have tended to focus on internet culture, transformation and change rather than content. But the production and distribution of content has always been integral to everything we do in the DH digital team. Our content function is …
Introducing a new research project: Having a baby
A few weeks ago the DH digital team embarked on a research project to look at the experiences of women and their partners who are having a baby. We wanted to take a broad view of how people interact with …
Come and join the DH Digital Engagement Team
We've got a number of roles up for grabs in the Digital Engagement Team in DH. Two are currently live on Civil Service Jobs. They close on 20 August 2015. They are: Digital Engagement Manager (Ref 1463525) – open to …
Announcing UKHealthCamp
Today, a few people (including myself) announced the start of UKHealthCamp - an 'unconference' for for everyone interested in digital, design, technology and data for health and care. The first event is planned for November 28th 2015. Go to the website …
What we're doing on: digital engagement
I think we built our reputation as a digital team on the strength of our approach to digital engagement. We posted lots of examples of our digital engagement efforts on this blog, from the work we did during the listening …
What we’re doing on: capability
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 …
To Beta and Beyond: what launching our digital passport has taught us
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 …