These pages showcase guidance, policy and examples of our work for staff and our partners, and anyone else who’s interested.
A job delivering our digital strategy
We’ve just advertised a new role in the DH digital team to help deliver the commitments we made in our digital strategy. The role is Digital strategy manager. It’s a civil service grade 7 role with a salary of £48,799 - £51,517. It’s … Read more → – A job delivering our digital strategy
Digital engagement on dementia
Digital isn’t just about publishing anymore. The Department of Health (DH) digital team certainly knows that, but there are plenty of people within the department – and across government – still to be convinced of the wider benefits of digital, … Read more → – Digital engagement on dementia
Digital engagement to support compassion
Good customer service. We all want it, but it can sometimes be a tricky thing to get right. Especially when it comes to healthcare. Getting the right treatment at the right time is part of it, but good healthcare is … Read more → – Digital engagement to support compassion
The highs and lows of live blogging
When setting out to cover the Department of Health’s Dementia Village at the Healthcare Innovation Expo 2013, I wanted to do more than live tweeting. My main digital objective was to extend the reach of the event, which meant giving … Read more → – The highs and lows of live blogging
Digital content: why and how we publish it
Digital content is integral to our communication and policy engagement work. The department’s digital strategy sets out how the the department will use digital tools and techniques to improve its policymaking process and communicate with its external audiences. Digital tools … Read more → – Digital content: why and how we publish it
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 … Read more → – Big changes to DH’s digital operations
