Review into London Ambulance Service New Year outage reveals ‘significant shortcomings in IT processes’
Outage in early hours of 2017 saw call-handling and dispatch system fall over
Scottish NHS invites bids for £65m managed services framework
Four suppliers expected to tender to supply patient administration and clinical systems to primary care providers
Data issues 'hampering council transformation'
Nearly a third (28%) of local IT leaders do not think they their organisation is completely ready for impending compliance regulations.
Birmingham set to approve new ICT delivery regime
Council reveals more details of new ICT model, including SIAM and strengthened governance arrangements
IFG report reveals frustration with ‘rigid’ Digital Marketplace
New report lifts lid on frustrations and tensions within government over role of Government Digital Service
Government to tighten rules on personal data storage
Data protection legislation commitment survives Tory cull of manifesto promises
DWP offering up to £100,000 salary for enterprise data architect
Selected candidate will work for BPDTS, the government-owned IT company that serves DWP
NHS Digital’s analytics director to step down
Professor David Hughes authored NHS Digital’s data strategy and will now focus on mental health analytics
Digital sector set to outpace rest of Scottish economy
Technology is predicted to be the fastest growing sector of the Scottish economy to 2024
Hillingdon council on the hunt for telecare system provider
London borough to replace council-operated 24/7 monitoring service for elderly residents
Group chat an indispensable tool within Whitehall
Group chat services can make civil servants more efficient by reducing email overload. If government does not embrace them, it will lose out
WannaCry NHS attack - lessons for data recovery strategies
A fresh look at data protection and backup best practice, particularly when it comes to ransomware.
Robots, connectivity and digital skills: progress on digital in Scotland
"At the end of the day, the services are all the same, so if you’re doing bins from Shetland to Glasgow to the Borders, we all do similar services"
How should we respond to cyber attacks on public bodies?
Fear around GDPR is being "hyped up by companies trying to sell solutions".
Sir David Norgrove interview: Challenges ahead for statistics watchdog
Sir David Norgrove, the new chair of the UK Statistics Authority, sees better use of existing administrative data as a way to bolster the nation’s understanding of itself without conducting original and costly research.
NHS ransomware attack one month on: "The people who didn’t patch Windows 7 should be sacked"
Last month's high-profile cyber attack caused chaos across much of the NHS, but some parts were unscathed. SA Mathieson explores why
Public facilities should do away with downtime
Ensuring spaces can be booked by the public and other bodies can bring in revenue and create efficiencies, argues Chris Smith
WannaCry NHS attack - busting the myths
Des Ward, information governance director at Innopsis, reflects on the real story behind the WannaCry cyber-attack.
How the Internet of Things poses fresh risks to public sector systems
With the cyber threat shifting its focus to sabotage rather than data theft, many of the defences deployed by public sector organisations will have to be adapted for the new world
Why cyber resilience is the UK's first line of defence
New threats require the sort of joint civilian and military planning that was common in the Cold War – but with a focus on cyber rather than nuclear, says Jennifer Cole of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
How councils can use and make the most of data
There is no lack of appetite for data projects – it’s just that the scope of them is so vast, many people don’t know where to begin
General election 2017: Politicians have been silent on data – and unwilling to let councils take the lead
While some councils boast impressive advocates for data analysis, there are strict limits on what they can accomplish without the backing of Westminster – as the election campaign row over social care shows