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Reporter: Stuart Littleford
BASW Chair and CEO issue letter to Prime Minister to support social workers
Social workers are on the front line of efforts to minimise the impact of Covid-19 across the four countries of the UK and undertake a range of statutory duties, including protecting vulnerable children and adults, supporting disabled adults and
Continue reading BASW calls on the Prime Minister to provide essential PPE and guidance for social workers and include as priority group for testing
VPS Smart Tower being off loaded from truck
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
Police forces across the UK are having to carry out extra night patrols in empty city and town centres, as burglars target shops, pubs and other commercial premises during the coronavirus lockdown.
Collating intelligence data from police reports, news items, and their
Continue reading Surge in break-ins at pubs, shops, offices and construction sites during coronavirus lockdown
Journey sharing app provides easy way for those in need to see the people around them who can help
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
As the government writes to 1.5 million vulnerable people to urge them to stay at home for 12 weeks, the community ethos of the Faxi car pooling app is coming to
Continue reading Car pooling mapping app can help communities support each other during coronavirus pandemic
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
Medi-Immune Ltd have revealed their ProtectivAir® compact, wearable, breathing device which will protect front-line healthcare staff and those
ProtectivAir® in use on a medical professional
working in biologically-compromised environments. ProtectivAir® is currently awaiting testing against the Coronavirus at PHE Porton Down. ProtectivAir® has proven extremely effective against a range of
Continue reading Medi-Immune Ltd Announce Covid19 Tests
Dr David Staples, Chief Executive of the United Grand Lodge of England
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
Freemasons are calling for the whole community to ensure no one feels alone, even if they are physically self-isolating, by remembering them in a toast at 9pm tonight.
The 200,000 strong membership organisation traditionally toasts ‘absent Brethren’ to
Continue reading Freemasons are inviting the whole country to toast ‘absent friends, and those working on the frontline in the NHS’ at 9pm tonight
Institute of Economic Development Executive Director Nigel Wilcock has told GPSJ:
“This might be the budget that brings Keynes back in vogue with the Office for Budget Responsibility expecting the expansionary measures to create a demand-led economic boost. Certainly, from the budget speech there was little not to like – some emergency fiscal loosening, some
Continue reading Comments to GPSJ on the 2020 Budget
By Evan Wienberg, co-founder and CEO of Truespeed
A new year is a time for renewal and resolutions. The UK government’s plans to invest billions in infrastructure transformation in the budget on March 11 and shape up the UK’s digital economy by accelerating the delivery of full fibre broadband across the country are undoubtedly full
Continue reading Full fibre broadband – balancing private and public investment
ibml processes high-volume government documents for stringent, mission-critical needs, meeting the highest quality and security standards across many departments in a secure, safe environment
New product offers transformative solutions for outdated information management processes
Imaging Business Machines, LLC (ibml), the leading global provider of intelligent information capture solutions, unveiled its next generation of ultra-high-volume
Continue reading ibml unveils world’s fastest, ultra-high-volume, intelligent scanner: the ibml FUSiON, the most comprehensive intelligent information capture solution
SolarWinds and its direct reseller, Kenson, will attend the annual Healthcare Excellence Through Technology (HETT) event at the ExCel in London, on October 1st and 2nd. The U.K.’s top healthcare technology event is a relevant platform for both companies to share their knowledge of, and promote awareness for, stronger cybersecurity practices in this sector.
In
Continue reading SolarWinds and Kenson to attend HETT 2019
Top Trust nationwide for A&E performance provides clinicians in emergency care with secure ‘tap and go’ access to NHS spine enabled applications
Imprivata®, the healthcare IT security company, has announced that North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has deployed Imprivata Spine Combined Workflow to deliver secure, No Click Access® to applications on
Continue reading North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust delivers fast, secure access to applications for clinicians in A & E with Imprivata
Reporter: Selena Darke
L-R Robert Longley-Cook, William and Gavin Bashar
A new report was launched in Parliament last month setting out the case for a deal for the learning disability sector, focusing on realising the potential of technology to boost investment and transform the way care is delivered.
National learning disabilities charity, Hft,
Continue reading Tech and care industries unite to unveil case for a deal which could transform the learning disability sector
David Hancock
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
The healthcare executive advisor at founder-member InterSystems wants the standards organisation to persist with collaboration and focus on adoption
David Hancock has been elected to the new role of vendor co-chair at INTEROPen, the collaborative set up to accelerate the development of
Continue reading David Hancock elected vendor co-chair at INTEROPen
Graham Jarvis
By Graham Jarvis, Freelance Business and Technology Journalist
Early in 2019 Brian Chidester, Senior Industry Lead for Public Sector at OpenText, wrote about the trends that will affect the public sector this year. In his blog for the company, it stated that ‘2019 technology trends driving IT modernisation in the Public
Continue reading Public Sector Technology: Be Smart With WAN Data Acceleration
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust to be self-made digital exemplar with UK-first Alcidion partnership.
New partnership between Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust and Alcidion will help realise the trust’s ambition to be a self-made digital exemplar through industry-leading product suite and support.
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust is to enhance its digital maturity through a
Continue reading Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust to be self-made digital exemplar with UK-first Alcidion partnership
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
Nearly a Fifth of U.K. Public Sector Organisations Reported Over 1,000 Cyberattacks in 2018, Despite Over 95 Percent of Respondents Using Firewalls, Antivirus, and Malware Protection.
Freedom of Information request conducted by SolarWinds examines cyberattack preparedness among NHS, central government, and defence public sector organisations Over a third (38 percent) of respondents
Continue reading Nearly a Fifth of U.K. Public Sector Organisations Reported Over 1,000 Cyberattacks in 2018 despite using protection
The finalists for the HSJ Partnership Awards have been announced today ahead of a prestigious black-tie dinner awards ceremony at Park Plaza, Westminster Bridge on 20 March 2019. Following the success of the inaugural awards in 2018, the programme has been expanded to cover a swathe of new sectors across 16 categories, including a specific
Continue reading HSJ Partnership Awards 2019 shortlist announced
David Orme, SVP at IDEX Biometrics
The UK Government influences our lives on a daily basis through its plethora of public services, from the NHS and education to social benefits and national security. However, a re-occurring obstacle that presents a challenge for accessing these services is proving identity. There are also high instances of healthcare
Continue reading Tackling the UK Government’s identity crisis
Health Service Journal (HSJ), the news and information service for all healthcare leaders working in, for, or with the NHS, has expanded and enhanced its Partnership Awards for 2019, following the success of its inaugural programme earlier this year.
The newly launched 2019 Partnership Awards, which recognise private sector
Continue reading 2019 HSJ Partnership Awards will showcase education providers’ joint working projects with the NHS
Reporter: Stacy Clarke
A contract has been awarded to leading provider Arch Apprentices from YPO, the leading public sector procurement organisation, which will afford NHS, police, schools, local authorities much greater access to acquiring much-needed apprentices.
The contract will cover public sector organisations in South East, London, North West, West and East Midlands and South
Continue reading Arch Apprentices successfully obtains place on YPO’s Apprenticeship Framework
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
BakerHicks, the multidisciplinary design and engineering company, is celebrating the success of one of its major pharmaceutical projects, the GSK Aseptic Manufacturing Facility, at the 2018 Constructing Excellence North East (CENE) Awards. GSK won the Client of the Year category for the project, which was also a finalist in both the Offsite
Continue reading STATE-OF-THE-ART ASEPTIC MANUFACTURING FACILITY WINS AT THE CONSTRUCTING EXCELLENCE NORTH EAST AWARDS
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