First impressions from a Product Manager
As it’s now one month since I was welcomed into the Department of Health digital team, this seems a good time to share some thoughts and learnings so far. I...
Splat the rat - our never ending web rationalisation
At SPRINT 14 last week Francis Maude referenced the “splat the rat” game we’re playing with government websites. You shut one and another one appears. At DH we haven’t created any new websites for a long time, but it has …
Guest blog: Moving to GOV.UK – the MHRA experience so far
...up a transition blog on the agency’s intranet site to keep colleagues informed to our progress. 3) The ‘big bang’ website Go Live may not always be the best approach....
Sharing our stats from GOV.UK
...summary to our Permanent Secretary and senior leadership team as well as sharing on our intranet. Senior staff have told us that they find this intelligence useful and we are...
Big changes to DH's digital operations
We made some big changes to DH’s digital operations last week, though hopefully hardly anyone will have noticed... On Wednesday morning we migrated our wordpress subsites to their new hosting environment, and they’re now being managed by a small wordpress-specialist …
Ramping up our comms about GOV.UK
We’ve been doing lots of targeted comms about the move of the DH website to GOV.UK over the past six months and now with just 5 weeks to go we’ve really started going to town on it Last week I …
Just 10 weeks to go until DH moves to GOV.UK
The countdown has begun. There are now just 10 weeks to go until we switch off www.dh.gov.uk and move over to the single government website GOV.UK. Our scheduled go-live date is Tuesday 26 March and with Christmas behind us it …
So how is GOV.UK being received at DH?
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 …
GOV.UK - no health but still quite exciting
17 October 2012
How we are informing our colleagues about GOV.UK
As part of our preparations for the move to GOV.UK, in the Channel Strategy team we have been making our way round to see our DH Communications colleagues to inform them about GOV.UK and what this will mean for them. …