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By Sascha Giese, Tech Evangelist at SolarWinds
It’s now two years since the UK published its 2022-2025 roadmap for digital and data to transform government services and ensure every penny of taxpayers’ money is well spent.
Sascha Giese
The roadmap set out ambitious plans to “transform digital public services, deliver world-class digital technology and
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By Krishna Sai, Senior Vice President of Engineering, SolarWinds
In the ever-evolving landscape of public sector IT, complexity has emerged as a formidable challenge.
Well-intentioned technology investments like cloud services, meant to modernize government operations, are inadvertently creating labyrinthine IT ecosystems that are difficult to manage and secure. This complicated environment isn’t just an
Continue reading Self-Driving Ops: A Reality for UK Government Agencies?
The former NHS CNIO for England has joined the Highland Marketing advisory board. Here, she talks to GPSJ about her passion for transformation, the role of technology, and her mission to put nurses at the heart of debate about both.
Natasha Phillips is on a mission. “I want to bring the nursing view to
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Almost all UK central and local government organisations are skipping key steps necessary to deliver successful major transformation programmes, according to new research from ArvatoConnect. ArvatoConnect provides customer experience and business optimisation services to public and private organisations. The findings show that the majority of organisations don’t set key performance benchmarks, secure citizen and
Continue reading UK PUBLIC SECTOR HARBOURS HIDDEN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ‘DEFICIT’
By Nicola Williams – Sales Manager at Epson UK
It’s just over a year since the UK Government launched its Digital Strategy in June 2022, with ministers heralding the policy as a “vision for harnessing digital transformation and building a more inclusive, competitive and innovative digital economy”.
Beneath the bold statement, the government’s policy
Continue reading Building on the digital foundations of local and central government
Sascha Giese, tech evangelist, SolarWinds
Sascha Giese
A well-executed home renovation goes beyond cosmetic repairs and surface-level aesthetics by delving into the structural bones of a home. This approach not only revitalises the house’s appearance but also enhances its overall efficiency and maintenance. Meaningful digital transformation also requires such an approach.
However, a recent
Continue reading Three Ways Observability Can Help Address Public Sector IT Complexity
The 2023 Spring Budget depicted a further £21.6 billion in unannounced cuts to public services by 2027/28*. In line with this, we’ve seen technology budgets slashed across the sector, with NHS tech funding falling below the £1 billion mark**. As such, the public sector must find new and innovative ways to maintain the supply and
Continue reading Driving efficiency, saving time, and saving money – how automation can benefit the public sector
Achieving for Children (AfC) has chosen to partner with Huggg, the specialist platform which allows organisations to send and manage retail vouchers at scale to those in need, to provide digital disbursements and targeted assistance to children, young people, and their families. This includes various forms of support such as weekly care allowances, general reimbursements
Continue reading ACHIEVING FOR CHILDREN CHOOSES HUGGG TO PROVIDE DIGITAL DISBURSEMENTS TO CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES
David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks
The public sector continues to promote and undergo digital transformation. The drivers for it range from a need to digitalise operations, to increase innovation and agility or encourage and permit easier collaboration across different Government departments and public sector organisations.
There is also a need for
Continue reading SD-WANs: Are They Enough for Modern Government Enterprises?
By Kevin Dobson, product manager, Epson UK
This month marks three-years since the government first gave the order for people to work from home, wherever possible, at the start of the COVID19 pandemic.
Nobody at the time would have predicted that this simple order – enforced to slow the spread of a deadly disease –
Continue reading From paper to pixels: Secure scanning in public sector digitalisation
By Sascha Giese, SolarWinds Head Geek™
When it comes to digital transformation, one area of investment trumps all others. It’s not hardware. It’s not software. It’s not even the latest development in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
It’s people. And if public sector organizations want to deliver data-rich government services, they need to
Continue reading Investing in people always pays dividends
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
With citizens looking for convenience wherever they can—from responsive mobile apps to joined-up services—public sector organisations are under increasing pressure to develop and deliver the IT solutions needed to facilitate such services.
It was something laid out in June when the U.K. Government published its 2022 – 2025
Continue reading Managing digital expectations as pressure mounts for public sector transformation
New recruit brings insights from inside the NHS Track record of delivering significant digital transformation programmes Appointment follows significant contract wins
Andy Haywood, Channel 3 Consulting
CHANNEL 3 Consulting has recruited former NHS heavyweight Andy Haywood as it continues to deliver digitally enabled transformation programmes to the health and social care sectors.
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Lyniate Rhapsody will help enable Northern Ireland on its path to becoming the first UK country with a single, connected electronic patient record
Lyniate, a global leader in healthcare data interoperability, has been selected by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland to provide data integration technologies for its encompass
programme—a national digital
Continue reading Lyniate selected to connect Epic Electronic Patient Record in Health System in Northern Ireland
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
Organisations across the public sector are embracing digital transformation, and as a result, IT infrastructure is becoming more complex. On top of significant levels of legacy hardware and software to manage, the addition of various cloud-based services means IT professionals are looking after a diverse set of technologies—from
Continue reading Why Complex Public Sector IT Needs Full-Stack Observability
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
The pace of digital transformation across the public sector has accelerated significantly in recent years, and with Covid-19 prompting a near-overnight shift to online services, the process has come a long way already. Services once requiring pages of paperwork now are fully digitised—renewing your passport or driver’s license
Continue reading Can ‘One Login for Government’ Deliver Digital Success for the U.K. Public Sector?
Skillsoft’s Lean Into Learning: 2021 Annual Learning Report provides data and guidance for addressing skills gaps, hybrid learning, and the war for talent
Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL), a global leader in corporate digital learning, today released its Lean Into Learning: 2021 Annual Learning Report, exploring the top challenges and opportunities facing today’s workforce, as well as
Continue reading Skillsoft Releases New Report Exploring 2021 Learning Trends and the Future of Skill Building
Tim Pitts
By Tim Pitts, Senior Partner at Agilisys
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past 20 months has turned public sector organisations on their heads. Whilst some site that there has been a seismic shift in their digital thinking, others argue that the changes brought on by the pandemic were
Continue reading Public sector technology predictions for 2022 and beyond
The services supplied by the UK’s public sector, particularly those provided by the world-renowned NHS, are considered by many to be the jewel in our crown. Never before has this commitment to service excellence been more evidenced than by the way our public servants have responded to the challenges presented by the global pandemic and
Continue reading GFT: Intelligently exploiting the cloud to power the UK’s public sector, the jewel in our crown
Influential digital health leader joins growing not-for-profit consultancy committed to ‘making a difference to and for the NHS’
Andy Kinnear
Andy Kinnear is to join Ethical Healthcare Consulting, a growing community interest company that is proud to be the only not-for-profit digital health consultancy in the UK.
The former chair of
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