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CORPORATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR VETERAN, RICHARD DONNELLAN NAMED AS QUANTUM TRILOGY’S NEW CHIEF FUNDING OFFICER

Reporter: Stuart Littleford

Quantum Trilogy, a

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Calling all DSLs – Have you completed your annual online safety review?

Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) states ‘schools and colleges should consider carrying out an annual review of their approach to online safety’. To help support schools, edtech charity, LGfL-The National Grid for Learning has developed a free, comprehensive yet easy to use Online Safety Audit, recently updated (Feb 2025) to reflect changes to

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The Rising Demand for High-Quality Rental Properties: How Demographic Shifts and Smart Design are Reshaping the Property Sector

Aiden Van Sertima – Global Sales Director, Integritas Property Group

Aiden Van Sertima

The UK housing market is undergoing a significant transformation, driven not just by economic pressures and shifting work patterns, but also by major demographic changes. Increasingly, the spotlight is shifting to the growing demand for high-quality rental homes in city centres

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Why We Need Stronger Regulation For Online Weight Loss Drug Access

By Dr Ramoo, Medical Director, Bramacare

The UK is witnessing a sharp and largely unchecked rise in the use of weight loss injections such as Ozempic and Wegovy. While these drugs have proven clinical value when prescribed appropriately, their growing availability online, often without medical oversight, is creating a new and urgent public health

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Great plan: now we need to get real about digital delivery  

The government’s big plan for the 10 Year Health Plan for the NHS laid out a big role for delivery. However, the Highland Marketing advisory board felt the missing implementation plan will have some big issues to address, from addressing the state of NHS IT today, to finding the time and money to deliver

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When Air-Gaps Need WAN Acceleration

By David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks

The most critical means of maintaining service continuity is to protect an organisation’s backups first before anything else. Any failure to recognise that cyber-criminals comprehend see backups as any large, medium or small companies’ Achilles Heel, could lead to a significant amount of downtime and lost,

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Avoiding a Talent Crisis During LGR: How Councils Can Retain Their Best People Through Uncertainty

By Julian Panter, Business and Project Director, Matrix Workforce Management Solutions

Julian Panter

At Matrix, we work with councils up and down the country and the warning from Solace about Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) putting good officers at risk of exit rings very true. While I haven’t seen every council restructuring their senior teams,

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Key Liverpool landmark demolished as innovation scheme enters new phase

Liverpool’s flagship £1bn Knowledge Quarter development is set to enter a new phase – following the completion of the demolition of a key landmark.

Removal of the former Smithdown Lane Police Station at the Paddington Village South scheme has now completed, paving the way for new development opportunities under a masterplan being co-ordinated by Liverpool City Council

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New Anglia University Expands Clinical Rotation Network Through Ten New NHS Partnerships

New Anglia University (NAU) has announced a significant expansion to its UK Clinical Rotation Network by partnering with 10 additional NHS hospitals. This initiative provides NAU medical students with enhanced opportunities for real-world clinical training across a broad range of NHS facilities in London, Shropshire, and the West Midlands.

The Newly Partnered NHS Hospitals

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Delivering a Distinctive, Employer-Led Student Experience at Greater Manchester Institute of Technology

By Claire Foreman, Director, Greater Manchester Institute of Technology

Claire Foreman

When the Greater Manchester Institute of Technology (GMIoT) prepared to welcome its first cohort of students in September 2023, one critical question framed our thinking: what is truly distinctive about being an Institute of Technology (IoT) student?

Across the UK, Institutes of Technology

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New paper reveals how the lives of defence personnel in the UK can be improved into the 2030s according to a group of Serving Personnel, veterans, academics and industry partners convened by Sodexo

Research by leading food and facilities management services provider, Sodexo, has sought to address growing concerns regarding the Lived Experience of members of the Armed Forces based in the UK. The report, titled ‘The Future Lived Experience: Supporting the UK’s Armed Forces in the 2030s’, is the latest step in Sodexo’s ongoing research and

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Delivering efficiency and consistency in critical hospital assets

Where healthcare environments are increasingly complex and diverse, operational effectiveness is not just a goal; it is a necessity. From acute primary care to major trauma services, the daily functioning of thousands of clinical and microbiological assets underpins patient care and safety. Yet, a challenge remains: performance data for these critical assets is often

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The public sector’s cybersecurity blind spot: Why data exposure is the real threat

By Simon Pamlin, CTO, Certes

Simon Pamlin

Cyber threats to the UK public sector are escalating. From local councils and NHS trusts to education providers and policing bodies, public services are being stretched not just by limited budgets and ageing infrastructure but also by a rising tide of cyberattacks that exploit those weaknesses.

While

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Browne Jacobson’s School Leaders Survey shows exclusions and suspensions at an all-time high

Almost half (45%) of school leaders have reported an increase in suspensions and exclusions over the past 12 months, according to a new Browne Jacobson survey.

Philip Wood

In contrast, only 22% have noted a decrease, with the remainder saying there had been no change or they were unsure.

Findings in the UK and

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Arcadis-led Consortium Secures Position on National Highways Specialist and Technical Services Framework

Arcadis-led team brings expertise from engineering, data analysis, and design Programme includes consultancy services across 26 core competencies including asset operation, road user behaviour, strategic transport planning, sustainability, and more. Arcadis already delivering award-winning data-centric approach to prevent crashes in Warwickshire

Arcadis, the leading global design and consultancy firm for natural and built assets,

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Barts Health takes ‘giant step’ for medical research with Sectra

Previously untapped insights from large volumes of anonymised diagnostic images could enable ground-breaking research and medical innovations needed to enhance patient care, following a first of its kind technology deployment in the NHS.

Barts Health NHS Trust, which serves one of the largest and most diverse patient populations in the country, has become the

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BOOST TO UK DEFENCE AND TRADE AS CARRIER STRIKE GROUP ARRIVES IN THE INDO-PACIFIC

United Kingdom’s Carrier Strike Group now operating across the Indo-Pacific, following Mediterranean exercises and Red Sea transit Key defence partnerships strengthened through naval exercises with India, Australia, US and other partners Port visits to Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, and Republic of Korea set to boost UK trade and defence cooperation in line with the Government’s

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Marks & Spencer’s £300M cyberattack should be a stark warning to all organisations

By Claire Agutter, Scopism

The cyberattack against Marks & Spencer, which caused damages beyond £300 million and operational disruptions until July, serves as a ‘red alert’ for all public and private organisations. The attack revealed fundamental weaknesses in trust levels and operational stability alongside compromised data protection. The National Crime Agency’s investigation into Scattered

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KYMETA’S BREAKTHROUGH MULTI-BAND ANTENNA REDEFINES CONNECTIVITY

Kymeta achieves multi-band connectivity with four concurrent beams in Ku- and Ka-band frequencies with a single antenna aperture Leap in connectivity technology unlocks the future of AI in defense, autonomy and edge computing Opens the door to automatic and seamless satellite roaming synonymous with cellular networks

In a world-first, Kymeta, the company reimagining satellite

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Worlds Apart.  Could Rethinking Medical Education Help Solve the UK’s GP Shortage?

By Tamara Leslie, Medical Student at New Anglia University, Anguilla

The NHS is amid a long-anticipated workforce crisis, and few areas are feeling the strain more acutely than general practice. A shortfall of over 4,200 GPs in England is just the start. Despite ministerial pledges and long-term workforce plans, the supply of newly qualified

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