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...
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GOV.UK – no health but still quite exciting
GOV.UK was switched on for real earlier today. It’s some achievement, and the team at the Government Digital Service deserve all the praise they get. It’s a bigger deal for other bits of government...
View ArticleSo 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...
View ArticleJust 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...
View ArticleRamping 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...
View ArticleBig 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...
View ArticleSharing our stats from GOV.UK
Since we migrated the DH website to GOV.UK in March this year we have been regularly looking at the stats and each month have produced a report. We send this summary to our Permanent Secretary and...
View ArticleMoving to GOV.UK – the MHRA experience so far
Joanna Blackburn, Head of Digital Communications at the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) talks about her teams experience with the move to GOV.UK. There was an equal measure...
View ArticleSplat 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...
View ArticleFirst 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 was recruited as a Product Manager, a new...
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