The highs and lows of live blogging
At Healthcare Innovation Expo 2013
Why and how we publish digital content
Content on the Department of Health website will move to GOV.UK in the morning. If you visit tomorrow, you’ll see some new content, some old content and some content that has been retro-fitted to new formats. It’s been quite a …
Digital content: why and how we publish it
Digital content is integral to our communication and policy engagement work. The department's digital strategy sets out how the the department will use digital tools and techniques to improve its policymaking process and communicate with its external audiences. Digital tools …
A list of unwritten blogs
It’s funny what prompts a blog. It might be a need to share something brilliant, air an opinion or ask a question. Often the a blogs I read seem to be crafted responses to temporary moments of frustration. I’ve got …
Big changes to DH's digital operations
We made some big changes to DH’s digital operations last week, though hopefully hardly anyone will have noticed... On Wednesday morning we migrated our wordpress subsites to their new hosting environment, and they’re now being managed by a small wordpress-specialist …
A social media toolkit for press officers
There are many opportunities for press officers to use digital tools in their roles. This could be anything from tweeting the link to a press release, to using digital listening tools to gauge stakeholder reactions. To help press officers make …
Ramping up our comms about GOV.UK
We’ve been doing lots of targeted comms about the move of the DH website to GOV.UK over the past six months and now with just 5 weeks to go we’ve really started going to town on it Last week I …
Digital policy engagement session at Sprint 13
The Department of Health digital team were very pleased to be asked to lead the digital policy engagement session at Sprint 13, the recent showcase for the best in digital across government. You can watch the video of the full session …
Just 10 weeks to go until DH moves to GOV.UK
The countdown has begun. There are now just 10 weeks to go until we switch off www.dh.gov.uk and move over to the single government website GOV.UK. Our scheduled go-live date is Tuesday 26 March and with Christmas behind us it …
The DH digital strategy
We've just published our digital strategy. It sets out how the Department of Health will give its staff the knowledge, skills, tools and confidence to embrace digital in an increasingly digital world. It's been quite a task to produce it and …