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A World War naval base and a centuries old Swedish ship have both been named as Scotland’s newest Historic Marine Protected Areas.
The Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy Gillian Martin confirmed the designation of the two sites off the coasts of Orkney and Shetland to recognise the national importance of the
Continue reading Protecting Scapa Flow and the Queen of Sweden
By Kagan Seymenoglu, Founder and CEO of Longevita
Kagan Seymenoglu
Since the early 2000s, the global medical tourism industry has grown at a remarkable pace. Once accessed by the wealthy seeking luxury treatments abroad, it is now a mainstream option for many UK citizens – particularly in the field of elective cosmetic procedures such
Continue reading A Call for Action on Unregulated Medical Tourism: Protecting UK Patients and the NHS
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
· Former US State Department and military veteran, Richard Donnellan joins mission-critical technology company, Quantum Trilogy in a crucial public sector and private finance relations function
· Appointment comes following decades of business success across energy, finance and defense sectors
Quantum Trilogy, a
Continue reading CORPORATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR VETERAN, RICHARD DONNELLAN NAMED AS QUANTUM TRILOGY’S NEW CHIEF FUNDING OFFICER
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
Continue reading Calling all DSLs – Have you completed your annual online safety review?
By Mubina Asaria, Safeguarding Consultant at ed-tech charity LGfL-The National Grid for Learning.
Mubina Asaria
Sexual extortion – often referred to in the media as sextortion – is a rapidly growing form of abuse where perpetrators use intimate images or videos of their victims to threaten, blackmail or manipulate them, often demanding money, further
Continue reading ‘Sextortion’: How schools can help safeguard young people from sexual extortion online
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
Continue reading Why We Need Stronger Regulation For Online Weight Loss Drug Access
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
Continue reading Great plan: now we need to get real about digital delivery
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,
Continue reading When Air-Gaps Need WAN Acceleration
Integrated care, digital access, and frontline innovation reshape health services for thousands of families and adults across BSW and Surrey.
After the Government recently launched its 10-Year Health Plan to modernise the NHS and bring care closer to communities, HCRG Care Group – the UK’s largest specialist community services provider – is today celebrating
Continue reading HCRG Care Group Marks 100 Days of Community Health Transformation Across BSW and Surrey
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,
Continue reading Avoiding a Talent Crisis During LGR: How Councils Can Retain Their Best People Through Uncertainty
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
Continue reading Key Liverpool landmark demolished as innovation scheme enters new phase
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
Continue reading New Anglia University Expands Clinical Rotation Network Through Ten New NHS Partnerships
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
Continue reading Delivering a Distinctive, Employer-Led Student Experience at Greater Manchester Institute of Technology
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
Continue reading 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
AI’s increasing presence poses a real danger of making an already sizable digital literacy divide worse. Jon Rimmer, CXO at Mercator Digital, says governments and organisations have a responsibility to bridge this gap, explaining both why and how.
Jon Rimmer
New technology is designed – or at least is meant to be designed –
Continue reading If AI is widening the digital divide, what can be done to stop it?
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
Continue reading The public sector’s cybersecurity blind spot: Why data exposure is the real threat
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
Continue reading Browne Jacobson’s School Leaders Survey shows exclusions and suspensions at an all-time high
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,
Continue reading Arcadis-led Consortium Secures Position on National Highways Specialist and Technical Services Framework
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
Continue reading Barts Health takes ‘giant step’ for medical research with Sectra
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
Continue reading BOOST TO UK DEFENCE AND TRADE AS CARRIER STRIKE GROUP ARRIVES IN THE INDO-PACIFIC
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