GP IT Futures Buying Catalogue Alpha Assessment
The report from the alpha assessment for NHS Digital's GP IT Futures Buying Catalogue service.
Discovering digital in a public health team
Ros-Mari Mitova, Digital, Data and Technology Fast Streamer, shares her experience of working in the digital team at Public Health England.
Digital Weight Management Alpha Assessment
The Digital Weight Management service (currently renamed as: Our Family Health) is a free and fun service that helps the whole family achieve their health goals, one small step at a time. Parents, carers and their children between four and …
Introducing a map of Healthy Start uptake
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Isaac Smith, Posted on:
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Engagement, HealthyStart, Helptobuyhealthyfoods, Services and products, User research
Isaac Smith, Technology Advisor, shares how and why the Healthy Start team created a map of Healthy Start voucher uptake.
Lessons for content design in the alpha phase
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Iain Cooper, Posted on:
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Alpha, Content, Insight, Services and products, User research
Iain Cooper, Senior Content Designer at Public Health England (PHE), shares his experience of working on a service assessment alpha.
Changing the name of a service
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Colin Pattinson, Posted on:
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Beta, Content, Health Product People, HealthyStart, Helptobuyhealthyfoods, Services and products, User research
This blog post is about how and why the name of Healthy Start is changing. It discusses how the team is finding a new name and how the team will test if the name is good enough.
Getting feedback from retailers about Healthy Start
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Colin Pattinson, Posted on:
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Beta, HealthyStart, Helptobuyhealthyfoods, Services and products, User research
This blog post shares the findings from a survey the team did with retailers who help the Healthy Start scheme. It gives insights into how retailers administer healthy start, how they get reimbursed for accepting vouchers and their satisfaction with the service among other findings.
Strengthening our culture of evaluation
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Charlotte Fountaine and Claire Rackstraw, Posted on:
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Services and products, Strategy, User research
Digital health interventions – like the apps found in the NHS Apps Library – have enormous potential to improve the public’s health. At Public Health England (PHE), we want to make sure our digital health interventions work well. So we’re …
Self-assessing a pipeline of projects
I work at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) as a Digital Portfolio Planner in our Digital Portfolio Management Team and support the business by tracking and assessing the progress of projects and programmes. Our portfolio has over 30 live projects …
A rota for retrospectives
In agile teams, the ‘retrospective’ is an essential – maybe the most essential - meeting we have. At the end of every two week sprint, we get together for an hour to reflect on how the work got done so …