Our social media following continued to grow this July. Our Twitter following climbed by 1,720 to 210,718, and we gained 3,394 new followers on Facebook, …
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Registering with a GP online goes into private beta
We recently began a private beta trial (testing an early version of a service at small scale) of Register with a GP with six GP …
Read moreHow we’re providing free WiFi across the NHS
We started at the beginning of the year by providing funding to 20 clinical commissioning groups to enable them to deliver across their areas. In …
Read moreDigital inclusion and homelessness – new research
As part of its work on widening digital participation, the team at NHS Digital wanted to better understand how people experiencing homelessness use (or don’t use) …
Read moreRedesigning Change4Life for users
What’s big, yellow and helps you keep your family healthy? Change4Life, of course! Although, it’s not so yellow any more… it’s been treated to a …
Read moreHealthy eating discovery: why we’re doing it
The NHS.UK Transformation programme has been running for two years. So far, it’s focused on transforming Choices content about conditions, medicines and services. Of the areas …
Read moreHow the NHS is working to widen digital uptake and participation in health technology
In 2013, the Widening Digital Participation (WDP) Programme was set up by NHS England to provide support to the millions of people (including NHS staff) …
Read moreExploring feedback on GP services
Our recent work on NHS.UK has revealed that users are often confused about giving any kind of feedback about GP practices. For example, they sometimes …
Read moreOur first team unconference
Yesterday we held our first unconference (a conference where there are no planned talks and the agenda is co-created by the attendees, on the day) for …
Read moreNHS Digital Apps Library launched
Over the last few months our work to open up the NHS digitally for patients has progressed at pace. Our vision is to transform the …
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