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Our Family Health – a healthy weight companion for families

Posted by: Helena Wehling, Joanna Choukeir and Jamie Blackshaw, Posted on: 2 May 2019 - Categories: Alpha, Services and products, User research
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Public Health England share their experiences of co-designing the service Our Family Health, which supports healthy lifestyle behaviour change for families.

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Creating a health and care digital pipeline of spend

Posted by: Sam Martin, Posted on: 30 April 2019 - Categories: Assurance, Service assessments
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We monitor and approve spend for digital services used by the public and the NHS. Here's how we're improving that process with pipeline.

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How we’re creating a toolkit for evaluating digital health products

Posted by: Charlotte Fountaine, Posted on: 17 April 2019 - Categories: Alpha, Assurance, Services and products, User research
Laptop on a desk with a webpage open. Next to this is a sheet of paper with a post it note on it in a sunny office.

Public Health England share their experiences of the alpha phase of their project to demonstrate the impact, cost-effectiveness and benefit of digital health products to public health.

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NICE Comment Collection Private Beta Assessment

Posted by: Hayley Sorrell, Posted on: 15 April 2019 - Categories: Assurance, Beta, Service assessments
Text saying "Service Assessment" with DHSC approved brand colours

The report from the private beta assessment for NICE’s comment collection service.

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GP IT Futures Buying Catalogue Alpha Assessment

Posted by: Colin Pattinson, Posted on: 11 April 2019 - Categories: Alpha, Assurance, Service assessments
Text saying "Service Assessment" with DHSC approved brand colours

The report from the alpha assessment for NHS Digital's GP IT Futures Buying Catalogue service.

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Discovering digital in a public health team

Posted by: Ros-Mari Mitova, Posted on: 5 April 2019 - Categories: Capability, Services and products

Ros-Mari Mitova, Digital, Data and Technology Fast Streamer, shares her experience of working in the digital team at Public Health England.

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Digital Weight Management Alpha Assessment

Posted by: Hilary Hall, Posted on: 11 March 2019 - Categories: Alpha, Service assessments
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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 …

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Introducing a map of Healthy Start uptake

Posted by: Isaac Smith, Posted on: 14 February 2019 - Categories: Engagement, HealthyStart, Helptobuyhealthyfoods, Services and products, User research
Healthy start uptake map showing the % of uptake in English and Welsh local authorities between 10 December 2018 and 6 January 2019. Uptake is higher in the north and in Wales but the picture is varied

Isaac Smith, Technology Advisor, shares how and why the Healthy Start team created a map of Healthy Start voucher uptake.

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Lessons for content design in the alpha phase

Posted by: Iain Cooper, Posted on: 10 January 2019 - Categories: Alpha, Content, Insight, Services and products, User research
Pair writing for a prototype

Iain Cooper, Senior Content Designer at Public Health England (PHE), shares his experience of working on a service assessment alpha.

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Changing the name of a service

Posted by: Colin Pattinson, Posted on: 4 January 2019 - Categories: Beta, Content, Health Product People, HealthyStart, Helptobuyhealthyfoods, Services and products, User research
Rules for changing the name of a service

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.

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