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The Highland Marketing advisory board discussed social care and technology a year into the Covid-19 pandemic. Three years on, there has been progress and set-backs, leaving plenty of questions for an incoming government.
The Highland Marketing advisory board last discussed adult social care in April 2021; a year into the Covid-19 crisis that had
Continue reading Social care and technology: where are we now?
By Claire Agutter
Government Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has called for an urgent rethink of council strategy.
Seen by some of the public sector as a provoking statement, Hunt delivered a bleak explanation of local government and how they manage their resources and funds. Hunt proposes that significant spending cuts should be made on consultants
Continue reading Government call for a radical shift in Council Strategy
One in 10 businesses doesn’t have an incident response plan
Highlights:
New Barracuda report explores why just 43% of organizations surveyed have confidence in their ability to address cyber risk, vulnerabilities, and attacks Around half find it hard to implement consistent, company-wide security policies A third worry about securing the supply chain The report
Continue reading New CIO report shows that six in 10 businesses struggle to manage cyber risk
By Barley Laing, the UK Managing Director at Melissa
With little attempt to increase public sector budgets in the Spring Budget, apart from for the NHS, most public bodies are continuing to face significant cuts to their spending power in real terms over the coming years. This is backed up by figures from the
Continue reading Why the public sector must spring clean their databases
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?
Industry leaders including Microsoft, Dell, HP and Lenovo to meet at Circular Computing’s ‘Re: Sustainable IT Summit’ to advance the circular economy within the IT sector
IT industry responsible for 54m tonnes of e-waste and 760m tonnes of CO2 every year
Remanufacturing 1,000 laptops takes the equivalent
Continue reading Circular Computing calls for global plan of action on sustainable IT
We now know that the shift to hybrid is a fixed part of the world of work today. It’s a fundamental shift in the working landscape. But, for IT professionals, some critical aspects of navigating the cloud shift exist.
Gerry Flanagan
With remote and hybrid working, there can be some significant challenges to overcome,
Continue reading Embracing the hybrid landscape
New research of 18 to 25 year-olds has revealed the public sector to be one of the most appealing industries to build a long-term career.
When asked to rank 10 of the most common industries to work in, young people placed the public sector in fourth place, ahead of industries like legal and tech.
Continue reading Public sector voted one of the most popular careers by young people
Leading spider platform manufacturer Hinowa has recently launched two important new products. Hannah Treggalles, Marketing Director at Access Platform Sales (APS), explains their significant advantages for maintaining buildings and the national power network.
National spider lift rental specialist Paramount Platforms has become the first access hire company in the UK to take delivery of
Continue reading Working at height innovation: maintenance engineers get spider power boost
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
Continue reading GPSJ Interview with Natasha Phillips
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has become the first organisation anywhere in the NHS to deploy Sectra’s enterprise imaging service using public cloud.
The deployment has shown that NHS patient imaging can be efficiently accessed from a secure public cloud environment, just as quickly as when data is stored on-premise.
This has proven important
Continue reading An NHS first for public cloud: Homerton Healthcare achieves milestone with Sectra imaging technology
Safety technology provider, Peoplesafe, has extended its partnership with the UK’s pioneering personal safety charity and leading stalking authority, the Suzy Lamplugh Trust. Combining a wealth of expertise, the partnership will offer an ongoing holistic service to organisations, combining expert advice on personal safety strategy – including policy creation and training – with industry-leading
Continue reading Peoplesafe partners with the Suzy Lamplugh Trust
Once-for-Scotland project uses Tactuum’s Quris platform to make clinical guidance and policy tools available to clinicians when and where they need them
Clinicians in Scotland have easy access to clinical guidelines and validated decision support tools using the Right Decision Service (RDS), built on technology developed by Tactuum.
The RDS is a once-for-Scotland national
Continue reading NHS Scotland’s Right Decision Service built on Tactuum technology
Syniti and HFS Research report shares insights on how to increase data quality and reliability to help unleash full potential of GenAI
Syniti, a global leader in enterprise data management, today announced the results of a study developed with HFS Research to help organisations understand the value they can derive from their generative AI
Continue reading Enterprises’ Lack of Strong Data Foundation Hinders Wide-Scale GenAI Adoption
Roadwork projects play a vital role in maintaining and improving our infrastructure. However, the safety of roadworkers is often compromised due to the inherent risks associated with working in close proximity to moving vehicles. However, this isn’t the only very real threat to operative safety.
In recent years, there has been a growing concern
Continue reading SHIMPAC® | Enhancing Roadworker Safety: Easy-to-Install Solutions for Long-Term Performance
Canary Wharf Group (‘CWG’) raised £84m through a forward sale of 294 Affordable rent homes to the CBRE UK Affordable Housing Fund (‘AHF’), a fund sponsored by CBRE Investment Management.
Wood Wharf
The affordable homes are part of CWG’s Wood Wharf residential development due to be completed in 2027. The residential community at Canary
Continue reading Canary Wharf Group closes £84m affordable housing deal with CBRE Investment Management
The Cabinet Secretary was pleased to announce last week the appointment of Cat Little as the new Civil Service Chief Operating Officer and Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet Office.
Cat Little
Cat, who is currently Second Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury and Head of the Government Finance Function, was appointed by the Cabinet
Continue reading The Cabinet Secretary has appointed Cat Little as the new Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet Office
By Sascha Giese, Tech Evangelist, SolarWinds
The Government Digital Service (GDS) – part of the Cabinet Office responsible for digital transformation in the UK – is exploring how generative artificial intelligence (AI) could improve the user experience of the government’s website.
Public sector IT experts are using generative large language models (LLMs) – the
Continue reading Government learning lessons about AI from GOV.UK Chat experiment
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ordered public service provider Serco Leisure, Serco Jersey and seven associated community leisure trusts to stop using facial recognition technology (FRT) and fingerprint scanning to monitor employee attendance.
The ICO’s investigation found that Serco Leisure and the trusts have been unlawfully processing the biometric data of more than
Continue reading ICO orders Serco Leisure to stop using facial recognition technology to monitor attendance of leisure centre employees
By David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks
In 2023, generative AI became steadfastly part of the lexicon. The applications for the technology are potentially vast, but this was also overshadowed by concerns about the impact that artificial intelligence may have on society. Elon Musk, an investor in AI, was among the people calling
Continue reading WAN Trends 2024: The Need for AI and WAN Acceleration Remains in the Public Sector
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