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Reporter: Steve Harrison
The London Grid for Learning (LGfL) has announced Cyber Protect, its ambitious and ground breaking initiative to create an online Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security for schools. The new centre, which will sit within LGfL’s existing site, will provide the best possible protection from increasingly complex and sophisticated cyber threats.
LGfL
Continue reading Cyber Protect: Ground breaking initiative from not-for-profit London Grid for Learning to create a Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security in Education
Milton Keynes records
Reporter: Amy Wood
CCube Solutions has just announced that Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is upgrading to the latest version of its electronic document management software (EDMS) to build upon a hugely successful implementation first started seven years ago – a time when few trusts had embarked on
Continue reading Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust upgrades its CCube Solutions’ EDMS to add mobile support, OCR and EPR integration
As the public sector progresses beyond digital implementation to evolution, Idox shares its views on how a people-centred approach to digitisation can help organisations get more from their investments, as well as support the creation of effective end-to-end digital journeys.
The implementation of innovative technology to support smarter working, service transformation, and improved engagement has
Continue reading The two faces of digital transformation
Romy Hughes, director, Brightman
By Romy Hughes, director, Brightman
Public sector organisations are under constant pressure to save money. For many, this means outsourcing business services to the cloud, or moving to a shared service model. Such models not only reduce costs, but they also improve agility, resiliency and increase flexibility too. But
Continue reading Stop your people being the biggest barriers to cloud adoption
Lambert Smith Hampton, the professional services organisation, has praised EssentialSkillz for its easy-to-use software which has given them automated compliance on its business-critical policies.
Lambert Smith Hampton employs 1,300 people across 34 offices. It required a new policy and training software. The system had to provide an audit trail and verify if employees had read
Continue reading LAMBERT SMITH HAMPTON GUARANTEES POLICY COMPLIANCE WITH WORKWIZE
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has recently awarded EssentialSkillz a place on the G-Cloud 9 (G9) supplier list for cloud computing services.
EssentialSkillz has been successful in achieving supplier status and can now offer its compliance solutions to public sector organisations looking to streamline their online safety training and risk assessment processes.
EssentialSkillz provides companies
Continue reading ESSENTIALSKILLZ NOW A CROWN COMMERCIAL SERVICE (CCS) SUPPLIER
Targus technology unleashes 3,000-strong team to work anywhere
Targus, a global leader in mobile computing accessories, today announces that Staffordshire County Council has selected the company to boost productivity and enable flexible working, with the installation of over 1,000 universal docking stations.
In order for Staffordshire County Council to achieve smarter ways of working, greater
Continue reading Staffordshire County Council boosts employee satisfaction through smart working rollout
Key facts
Location: Manchester, UK Industry: Healthcare Employees: 5000 +
Challenges
Encourage adoption of new technology Increase clinicians’ time with patients Simplify login process without compromising security
Results
Fast, secure access to systems supporting security best practice Reduced login times Fast set-up of new users providing everyone with the same User Experience
Greater
Continue reading Imprivata OneSign drives a culture shift in technology acceptance, increasing productivity and improving security
Four casual-dressed persons working together on a new idea at the table.
Reporter: Allan Roach
Kodak Alaris is expanding its information capture ecosystem, delivering on the promise of digital transformation for businesses and governments around the world. The global solution provider is hosting customer and partner events in all regions this week to
Continue reading Kodak Alaris unveils next wave of IN2 Ecosystem to take complexity out of information capture
76% of UK CEOs are concerned about cyber threats
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
In May the NHS suffered a large scale ransomware attack and although the attack was not specifically targeted at the NHS a lack of IT security awareness and variations in software on IT systems in the organisation meant the affects were
Continue reading IT experts tell GPSJ: ‘Government not doing enough to protect public sector against cyberattacks’
76% of UK CEOs are concerned about cyber threats
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
Just over half (53%) of local authorities across the UK are prepared to deal with a cyber attack according to research by PwC.
While the latest PwC Global CEO survey found that 76% of UK CEOs are concerned about cyber threats,
Continue reading Half of local authorities across the UK are unprepared to deal with a cyber attack: PwC Research
Chris Price, Director, Public Sector at Computacenter
Following the announcement of the Government Transformation Strategy today Chris Price, Director, Public Sector at Computacenter has told GPSJ:
“We welcome The Government Transformation Strategy announced today. This is an important step towards ensuring the UK Government remains a global leader in its approach to public
Continue reading Comment to GPSJ: Government Transformation Strategy
James Pegum, CEO of Priava
Priava, the leading cloud-based venue management software company, has announced that a growing number of local government organisations in both the UK and Australia are deploying its cloud-based venue management software to maximise event bookings, reduce costs and improve services to local residents.
Councils face unique challenges in
Continue reading Local councils turn to cloud technology to more efficiently manage the booking and hosting of events
Mark Hall
By Mark Hall, public sector director at Redcentric; and Peter Nailer, senior bid manager at Redcentric
From vehicle hire to laundry services to enterprise technology – there are now countless purchasing frameworks for almost anything the public sector needs to buy. Take the Digital Marketplace, specifically covering technology. The several
Continue reading Frameworks: a victim of their own success?
LEGALEX, 11-12 May 2016, ExCel London – stand L554
PHS Data Solutions, a division of the PHS Group, will be promoting at Legalex, their latest document protection and digitalisation schemes to help legal practices combat data security threats.
As data protection laws demand more proactivity from company executives, business information security defences must be strong
Continue reading PHS DATA SOLUTIONS TO SHOWCASE SECURE DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS AT LEGALEX
The Altius supplier assessment and supply chain compliance framework
By Gary Plant, Managing Director of supplier assessment and compliance specialist Altius
Outsourcing can help tightly stretched public sector budgets stretch further and free up resources. But it can go spectacularly wrong if your supplier assessment and compliance systems are weak, or you don’t
Continue reading Outsourcing: How to save money and time on supplier assessment and contractor compliance
By Stuart Littleford MCIJ
Police are investigating after the Government & Public Sector Journal (GPSJ) discovered school children being asked to indecently expose themselves live online during lesson time.
The school children are using a popular live streaming app installed on their smart phones to broadcast live to thousands of viewers around the world. Teachers
Continue reading GPSJ exclusive: School children subjected to online abuse in class when using live streaming apps
Paul Excel with the tabs app design award
With technology’s ability to drive efficiencies, cut costs and improve scalability, flexibility, productivity and immediacy, adoption of new smart technologies is increasingly being cited as the antidote to the swathing cuts hitting the public sector. The government’s G-Cloud 7 digital marketplace, where such technology as
Continue reading Adoption of smart technology to help public sector weather the cuts
Jane Coughlan from Ealing Council
With a potential capacity of over 100 events per week and operating 362 days per year, the Hospitality & Events team for the London Borough of Ealing manages almost 4,000 events a year on average and is growing. All are hosted by the Council in a total of
Continue reading London Borough of Ealing relies on Cloud technology to increase efficiencies within hospitality and events team
Jamie Horton – managing director, Comensura
Temporary labour supply management specialist, Comensura is pleased to announce it has been awarded a place on the Crown Commercial Services (CCS) framework for the provision of temporary healthcare personnel.
Comensura successfully tendered for a neutral vendor managed service for the procurement of all health and social
Continue reading Comensura joins Crown Commercial Services framework for Multidisciplinary Temporary Healthcare Personnel
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