The Department of Health (DH) relaunched its website on 16 February 2004. The site has been completely redesigned and restructured. The new site is intended to provide improved navigation and a more powerful search engine, and will also help the DH meet government standards on accessibility and targets for electronic service delivery. Content is now organised around ‘themes’ and much out-of-date content has been removed. But the site’s domain address has changed from doh.gov.uk to dh.gov.uk and has rendered many deep links obsolete. The current site consists of more than 100,000 pages, and search tools show that there are around 300,000 other pages on the internet that link to somewhere on the site. The DH has set up redirects for key areas of the site. In all other cases, if a doh URL is used, users are redirected to the home page where they must conduct a search to find the relevant documents. The web site is the first outside the Cabinet Office to be underpinned by a content management system developed by the Office of the e-Envoy for public bodies. The system, known as Delivering on the Promise (DotP), is a central building block in the OeE’s strategy for ensuring that all departments meet the 2005 target for all services to be available online.
