GDS adds gender non-binary options to employee records
Digital agency claims that gathering more data will help ensure greater diversity in hiring new recruits and career progression of existing staff
Government launches unified online portal for gender-recognition applications
Service was ‘developed and tested with trans people’ to help reduce administrative burden of...
NHS Covid app update expands symptom checklist and softens guidance for English users
Latest version of software removes suggestion users may have coronavirus and countdown clock –...
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‘A country with world-class data analysis expertise should not have faced this crisis with virtually no data’
Parliamentary report on the lessons learned from the response to the coronavirus pandemic finds ‘major deficiencies in the machinery of government’
Electoral Commission seeks CEO to help keep pace with ‘digital revolution’
Regulator recruits for leader to support ‘change and improvement’
NHS Digital takes over cancer patient database
Service gathering data on diseases and congenital anomalies has been moved over from the now-defunct Public Health England
Scottish Government working on fix for Covid status app after industry bemoans ‘disastrous launch’
Football grounds among venues not to impose demand for status evidence as users report issues accessing their vaccination record
Which government departments are the least transparent?
Report from think tank identifies which parts of Whitehall are worst at publishing data on spending, meetings and other information
No plans to change GP funding in light of rise of remote consultations – minister
Healthtech minister says doctors should continue to offer in-person appointments
Court strikes down businesses’ challenge to ‘disproportionate’ Scottish vaccine status scheme
Party leaders clash over regime that comes into effect today
GDS chief on how new government login is avoiding the mistakes of Verify
Tom Read tells MPs that work to develop new platform is taking a much more iterative approach than its troubled predecessor
‘A loud, siren-like sound’ – UK mobiles to receive government emergency alert test
Procurement data reveals government has signed the UK’s four network operators to five-year deals worth a cumulative £16m
HMRC delays digitisation of income tax by one year to April 2024
Minister says that, in light of the pandemic, department wishes to given businesses extra time to prepare
NHS app users top 16 million as uptake boosts organ donor registrations
Download spike also prompts rise in digital prescriptions and use of technology to book GP appointments
NAO cites ageing IT and lack of automation in £1bn pension underpayment
A total of 134,000 people were underpaid by DWP, with complex rules and a widespread need for manual reviews pegged by auditors as a main cause
Scotland to accept vaccine status spot checks for large events
Football matches and other gatherings will not be asked to check every single visitor
Wales to require Covid passes for nightclubs and large events
Country becomes second devolved administration to diverge from Westminster policy
Minister wants to develop tech to ensure collection of rape victims’ digital data is ‘not intrusive’
Initiative aims to explore use of technology to limit data extracted during investigations
NHS Covid app: weekly contact alerts now level with number of positive cases as figure drops below 200,000
Manual contact-tracing is now bearing much of the burden of reaching those who may have been exposed to coronavirus
Scotland to press on with plans for mandatory vaccine status for events and nightclubs
Citizens will be required to demonstrate status from start of next month
MPs find lack of assistive technology bars disabled people from jobs
Public Accounts Committee calls on DWP to use good-quality diversity data to improve its employment support
Courts service picks £5m partner for digital reform programme
Scheme aims to transform family and tribunal services
‘Unsettling and very stressful’ – Home Office letter warns settled EU citizens of benefit cut-off
Following a government ‘data-matching exercise’ recipients of a recent government mail-out were warned they could be stripped of rights and payments – despite already holding settled status. PublicTechnology investigates.
What next for the NHS GP data collection scheme?
Today was supposed to mark the commencement of data-gathering for the controversial GPDPR scheme – but plans are now on hold. PublicTechnology recaps the story so far.