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One link on GOV.UK - 350,000 more organ donors

Posted by: Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 18 March 2014 - Categories: Data, GOV.UK
One link on GOV.UK - 350,000 more organ donors

...to join the NHS organ donation register. Over 350,000 people have now registered for organ donation via this one link on GOV.UK [since Jan 2013] Via a comment on that...

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Report a misleading website to search engines

Posted by: Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 2 March 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK
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Government services have been getting a growing number of complaints from people who feel misled by websites which charge for access to public services that are either free or much...

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DVLA, we salute you

Posted by: Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 21 February 2014 - Categories: GDS team
Screen Grab of new tax disc start page with beta link

...already buy their tax disc online every year. New vs old: The new beta now works properly on small screens So if you're due to renew your tax disc, visit...

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This week at GDS

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 22 October 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK, Transformation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsbWTj7RR68 This week, Kathy Settle, Director of Digital Policy and Departmental Engagement, looks back on GOV.UK's one year birthday and talks about the public beta release of the Carers Allowance...

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The story of GOV.UK so far, in pictures

Posted by: Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 1 May 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK

Earlier this week the the final ministerial department joined GOV.UK. This isn't the end of the GOV.UK story; in fact it's barely the end of the beginning. But today is still a big moment, the result of commitment and collaboration …

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This week at GDS

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 19 October 2012 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

...digital landscape for publication, drawing out the implications and thinking about how we release it. The Inside Government team released their detailed guidance format - unleashing 412 detailed guides from...

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This week at GDS

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 12 October 2012 - Categories: GDS team

...the Development team switched to 'skirmish' mode this week. This means that the team is available to work on bugs and tweaks as they come up, and in the last...

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Towards a Single Government Domain

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 29 March 2011 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

...so Chris Chant has commissioned a project to test its feasibility. Chris has asked Tom Loosemore, formerly of the BBC’s web operation, to pull together the project. He will be...

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