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Digital and communications review

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 2 February 2017 - Categories: Capability, Content, Engagement, Insight

I’ve mentioned in other blogs that the Department of Health is changing. The changes have all been carefully designed of course. But change is hard, so we’re doing some work now to check that we’ve got the digital bits right, and …

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Hold on, I think we might have fundamentally different ideas about what comms is

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 16 September 2016 - Categories: Strategy

This is the third in a series of blogs about my role in DH 2020, the department’s programme to become a better, leaner organisation. At the Department of Health we are redefining and restructuring many of our teams as part …

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The digital team do it like this

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 15 July 2016 - Categories: Strategy

Since the end of January I’ve been doing a slightly different job at the department, working on communications performance and improvement, alongside my work in the digital team. It’s a pragmatic arrangement for the department, enabling us to cover a …

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What will a government digital comms person do now?

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 25 November 2010 - Categories: Capability, Content, Engagement

In a previous job, my line manager told me that if I wanted to get on I would be wise to clearly "position myself" within the organisation. He thought that I should either position myself as someone who delivered policy …

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Digital health – what's that then?

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 10 November 2010 - Categories: Capability, Content, Engagement, Services and products

The challenge is fairly straightforward: how can we use digital tools and techniques and internet culture to help deliver the objectives of the Department of Health? I joined the Department in August, and I've been on a crash course since …

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