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DWP plans new £50m ‘debt-management system’

The department will appoint a provider to a contract potentially lasting for 11 years, and

NHS App launches ‘Amazon-style’ prescription-tracking function

New feature for app users has currently been integrated by about 1,500 pharmacies, including every

Whitehall departments to set decade-long R&D investment plans

The government has made good on a manifesto pledge to move on from a system

Home Office seeks multimillion-pound partner to support delivery of department-wide ‘AI as a Service’

Department will create a centralised service to help guide officials through the process of deploying

Westminster ‘following Welsh pilots of automatic voter registration with interest’

The government’s minister for democracy Rushanara Ali has suggested that she and her colleagues will

Applicants’ personal data accessed in cyberattack on Legal Aid Agency

Anyone who has applied for assistance in the past 15 years is encouraged to take

DWP targets waiting-time issues with online tools and new call routing

The department’s minister for transformation has cited various recent tech developments to its Child Maintenance

NHS proceeds with £36m digital scheme to ‘modernise donor engagement’

After initially engaging with suppliers two years ago to help shape technical specifications, the health

Officials ‘hungry for reform’, says union chief

The leader of the union for civil servants and public sector professionals tells the organisation’s

Scottish Government signs £114m deal for rural and agricultural services modernisation

The farming and rural directorate has brought in a specialist provider to help its work

AI tool for collating consultation responses shows well in first major test

The automated Consult technology was used to support sifting of feedback provided via Scottish Government

DWP-led £2.5bn shared services scheme sees ‘early delays’ and reduced benefits

Early work on achieving the milestones set out in the contracts with enterprise resource planning

NHS virtual wards add 1,000 beds in the past year as per capita target shelved

Secondary care minister tells former health secretary that, while the government wishes to continue to

Money for new national supercomputer ‘never existed’, minister says

In a parliamentary back and forth, the technology secretary strongly refuted the suggestion from his

GDS and digital ID watchdog meet with vendors to explore ‘how GOV.UK Wallet can work with private sector solutions’

The Office for Digital Identities and Attributes this week joined DSIT colleagues in meeting developers of

Crown Prosecution Service signs £25m software licensing partner

The department responsible for prosecuting criminal cases has picked a specialist provider for a three-year

Whitehall’s former top NED forecasts 30% productivity boost from agentic AI adoption

Michael Jary, who served for two years as the primary external director advising government, says

MoJ digital chief: ‘People interact with us at moments of vulnerability – they need to feel supported by the experience’

Giving the morning keynote at this week’s PublicTechnology Live conference, Kamal Bal told attendees about
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