GOV.UK - no health but still quite exciting
17 October 2012
Infographics - what we've learnt so far
As a digital team, the tools available to us for communicating our messages are ever expanding and we sometimes need to take a step back and think about what is the most useful approach, rather than the most innovative. One …
What a difference a year makes - reviewing the use of mobile devices
In September 2011 mobiles and tablets accounted for just 1.51% of all visits to the DH website. In September 2012 this has increased to 7.9% - that's 11,820 visits last week via a mobile device compared to 927 a week …
Digital first: the information strategy for health and care
The information strategy for health and care was published on the DH website this morning. It covers lots of things, providing a ten year framework for transforming information for the NHS, public health and social care. Readers of this blog …
Maps and apps for health and care - what next?
When we launched our Maps and Apps crowd-sourcing exercise, I'm not sure we fully appreciated quite what we were starting. We had a neat internally-rhyming name for it, some excellent people involved, and we knew that we could find examples …
But what about the people who can't use the internet?
At some point in just about every presentation I give about digital communication, and our efforts to do it better at the Department of Health, I get asked a version of this question: "That's all very well, but what about all the …