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How GOV.UK Pay grew to processing £8 billion in transactions

GOV.UK Pay £8 billion. Showing GOV.UK Pay screen on an iPad and a mobile phone

How GOV.UK Pay grew to processing £8 billion in transactions

Since launching in 2016 GOV.UK Pay has now processed £8 billion in card payments online and over the phone. Here we look at how we’ve used data to grow the product to this milestone.

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A problem shared is money saved

Posted by: Chad Bond - former Deputy Director for Standards Assurance, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 8 December 2016 - Categories: Technology, Transformation
Stickers with a polar bear on them, saying: Total savings £39 million

...make savings in the heart of government, the lessons learnt can be applied and borrowed to help elsewhere. Whether that may be healthcare or local councils or other areas entirely....

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Now we are 5

Posted by: Kevin Cunnington - former Director General, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 8 December 2016 - Categories: Events, GDS team, Transformation
Illustration of GDS 5th birthday card with confetti

...the citizen. All of us here owe a great debt to the people who laid the foundations for the organisation we are today. One that is agile and iterative, in...

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Digital transformation: an update from down under

Posted by: Jordan Hatch, Posted on: 7 December 2016 - Categories: Transformation
GOV.AU

...Likewise, by making use of the UK Digital Marketplace code, we were able to release our beta version in just 5 weeks – months ahead of schedule. In July, GDS’s...

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Celebrating our 5th birthday

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 5 December 2016 - Categories: Events, GDS team
GDS staff in front of the Trust, users, delivery wall sign

...imminent publication of the strategy and his plans for 2017 and beyond. Anyway. Time for some cake. Follow GDS on Twitter, and don’t forget to sign up for email alerts....

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Making our flooding content watertight

Posted by: Jane Eastwood and Joe Harrison, Posted on: 1 December 2016 - Categories: GOV.UK
A car submerged in the flood

...which was attended by members of the EA content team, content designers working on EA services and a content designer from the Department for Communities and Local Government. We drafted...

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Building better assessments for digital services

Posted by: Trang Erskine - Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK Design System, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 30 November 2016 - Categories: Service design
How we're building better assessments

...way to go. We’re approaching the service assessment transformation as we would a digital service transformation. User needs will continue to be identified and validated, and we will continue testing...

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7 things we learnt on our US visit

Posted by: Olivia Neal and Rory Smith, Posted on: 17 November 2016 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms, GDS team, People and skills
A group photo of the attendees of the International Visitors Leadership Program

The US government runs an International Visitors Leadership Program, which brings together future leaders from around the world. The most recent visit was for future digital and technology leaders and GDS was invited to take part. We wanted to share what we learnt.

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How users feel about webchat

Posted by: Chris Heathcote - Product Manager for Accessibility Monitoring, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 14 November 2016 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms

Webchat is a support channel where users can talk to advisers through real-time online text chat. We ran an alpha to learn from departments that have been using webchat and to learn what works for users.

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GDS welcomes 2 new senior hires

Posted by: Kevin Cunnington - former Director General, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 2 November 2016 - Categories: GDS team, Transformation

...the organisation. Emily will be Director of Policy and Engagement at GDS. Emily previously worked at Number 10 as Senior Policy Adviser for Welfare, Employment and Pensions. Emily will be...

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Help us give government better data about services

Posted by: Roxanne Asadi, Posted on: 31 October 2016 - Categories: Data, Service design
Front page of the prototype

...identified 3 main useful metrics: the breakdown of transactions per channel, the number of unique users for a service, and the reason a user contacts a service or has to...

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