When you’re limited to 140 characters, can a twitter chat truly be an effective policy engagement tool? Based on my recent experience of a twitter chat with @wenurses, as part of our engagement around the proposed Vulnerable Older People’s Plan, …
Here at the Department of Health, we always need to be ready in case of a health emergency. For example, last year we published our strategy for how we would communicate if there is another flu pandemic. As a part …
Over the last few months we’ve been inundated with freedom of information (FOI) requests and enquiries about native mobile applications and medical devices. To head-off some of this correspondence I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, …
A few weeks ago, I sat down with some of the DH digital team, to talk about digital policy engagement, and how we would like to do it in an ideal world. Over a couple of hours, powered by a …
...summary to our Permanent Secretary and senior leadership team as well as sharing on our intranet. Senior staff have told us that they find this intelligence useful and we are...
We publish digital content for 3 main reasons: to explain policy for policy engagement, to help make better policy for transparency The main channel for publishing our digital content is gov.uk. We want the Department of Health to have the …
...Deliver film produced a final edit uploaded the film to YouTube and embedded on the beta tool promoted the film on the DH intranet wrote this blog (my first!) will...
THIS VACANCY HAS NOW CLOSED We're looking to hire a product manager. It's a great opportunity to join the fast-moving Digital, Channel Strategy and Publishing team at the Department of Health. The job is open to civil servants only, and …
I did my best to answer this question at teacamp yesterday. Digitising press offices is a perennial subject for these kinds of gatherings. It's been a popular session at teacamp before, and is a regular subject for blogs by the government digerati. I …
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has introduced a new spending control threshold of £100,000 for digital. For some specific areas of digital the threshold remains ZERO, including for websites, domain registration, mobile apps, digital transactions and ID assurance for the …