NHS and Health
Technological advances in healthcare ICT and the NHS are made on a daily basis, despite continued problems with the government's National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Local PCTs and NHS Trusts are continually looking to make efficiencies, doing more with less - and without compromising the levels of healthcare dispensed to patients.
The Dispatch Box: Cabinet Office new forensic readiness requirements – Are you ready?
Laurence Pender of Guidance Software, takes to The Dispatch Box this week, and asks whether the public sector is ready to meet the Cabinet Office's new Forensic Readiness Requirements?
"In 2009, the UK Government lost the personal information of up to four million people...It is a shameful record and a frightening indictment of data handling practices in the public sector. The first duty of the public sector should be to serve the public, but the careless practices and inefficient procedures exposed by recent security breaches indicate that the safeguarding of confidential personal information is not being treated with the priority the law – and the public – demand." Read more
Frontline Club: Digital Election 2010
A panel discussion on the importance of social media in determining the outcome of the forthcoming general election, recorded at the Frontline Club in London.