The order I check things
This is a blog about how information enters my head before 9am on weekdays. My day is generally internet free until after I've had my toast and coffee. I very rarely slide to unlock while I'm still in the house …
Digital first: the information strategy for health and care
The information strategy for health and care was published on the DH website this morning. It covers lots of things, providing a ten year framework for transforming information for the NHS, public health and social care. Readers of this blog …
Acting on the annual user survey
We surveyed the users of the DH website recently, as we're obliged to each year by the Public Accounts Committee. We asked the standard questions - the same ones being asked on every government website - and added nothing else …
All DH held websites – April 2012
As part of the Department of Health's commitment to follow best practice and meet our legal responsibilities in responding to Freedom Of Information (FOI) requests, we are publishing the current list of DH held domain names. All DH held websites …
Annual website report 2011 - 2012
All Government departments are required to submit a basic report each year to Cabinet Office about their corporate websites. The Department of Health’s report for 2011/2012 details the website cost, usage and quality. Previous reports are available on the Cabinet …
Post-it notes, performance and innovation
This is a blog about creativity culture and post-it notes. I worked in the Performance and Innovation Unit of the Cabinet Office for a bit. The unit prided itself on finding new, better, more innovative ways of working, and finding solutions …
Jobs in the DH digital team
THIS VACANCY HAS CLOSED
Maps and apps for health and care - what next?
When we launched our Maps and Apps crowd-sourcing exercise, I'm not sure we fully appreciated quite what we were starting. We had a neat internally-rhyming name for it, some excellent people involved, and we knew that we could find examples …
Inside government - the DH website in the GOV.UK beta
Last night, the Government Digital Service took the password off the Inside Government bit of the GOV.UK beta. It's the part of the beta that shows how GOV.UK will replace all the different websites run by government departments and other …
Running effective webchats
Web chats are good for: providing an accessible, live forum to field questions opening a dialogue with an online audience discussing a specific topic understanding specific concerns and issues Web chats are also: open to everyone, not just the intended …