We surveyed the users of the DH website recently, as we’re obliged to each year by the Public Accounts Committee. We asked the standard questions – the same ones being asked on every government website – and added nothing else … Read more → – Acting on the annual user survey
Post-it notes, performance and innovation
This is a blog about creativity culture and post-it notes. I worked in the Performance and Innovation Unit of the Cabinet Office for a bit. The unit prided itself on finding new, better, more innovative ways of working, and finding solutions … Read more → – Post-it notes, performance and innovation
Jobs in the DH digital team
We’ve just advertised 2 jobs in the DH digital team. They are: Head of Channel Strategy (Grade 7) Digital Engagement Manager (SIO) They are both permanent jobs, available on promotion. You need to be a current civil servant to be eligible … Read more → – Jobs in the DH digital team
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 … Read more → – Maps and apps for health and care – what next?
Inside government – the DH website in the GOV.UK beta
Last night, the Government Digital Service took the password off the Inside Government bit of the GOV.UK beta. It’s the part of the beta that shows how GOV.UK will replace all the different websites run by government departments and other … Read more → – Inside government – the DH website in the GOV.UK beta
How do you solve a problem like replacing @timolloyd?
Tim Lloyd leaves the digital team at the Department of Health this week to become head of digital for the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. It’s great for BIS, and a ruddy shame for us. When he told me he’d … Read more → – How do you solve a problem like replacing @timolloyd?
Who does digital?
Before I joined the Department of Health I sat down with Tim in the Skipton House canteen and he talked me through the DH digital organogram. He explained that there were at least two teams responsible for corporate digital communication in the department … Read more → – Who does digital?
Beyond the publishing machine
The publishing machine is a relatively small part of our corporate digital effort at the Department of Health. We try to service it as efficiently as we possibly can so that we can focus more of our creative energy elsewhere, … Read more → – Beyond the publishing machine
The corporate beta from the fringes
I really like the thinking behind the corporate publishing bit of the single gov.uk domain. I like the simplicity of what the departments participating in the beta have been asked to do so far: to describe what the Government’s objectives … Read more → – The corporate beta from the fringes
Health conversations – our blogs, columns and tweets in one place
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 – … Read more → – Health conversations – our blogs, columns and tweets in one place
