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Before reading this please refer to the official attributed digital content policy. What is a blog? A blog is a simple and informal personal online journal that allows readers to add their own comments. Standard characteristics, features and functions: Entries …
1. The Department of Health supports staff who publish attributed official digital content, where it can help deliver policy and communications objectives. Context 2. There has been a massive growth in the social web in recent years – people are …
At Healthcare Innovation Expo 2013
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 …
After a few months of increasing our communications to DH colleagues about the move to GOV.UK (which we talked about in an earlier blog), we thought we’d share the feedback we’ve been getting. In recent weeks, we have done quite …
If you haven't already, you should take a look at our Digital Health site. It's not new, or a new idea, but it has been getting a bit of extra love recently. Alice, our head of channel strategy, has posted a …
I think we've done something quite interesting. Yesterday the Department of Health published the care and support white paper, and a draft care and support bill. It's a big deal for the Department, and the country. And it presented an …
I'm quite pleased with this: Health conversations. It's a simple thing - a different way of presenting content that already appears somewhere else on dh.gov.uk. We're using it as the DH version of a blogs homepage. We're pulling content from a few different sources - …
If you were going to write a history of UK government digital engagement, you could do worse than start with the story of the Foreign Office blogs. I'm biased, but I think blogging at the Foreign Office has been a …