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NHS online hospital to offer millions of appointments a year in ‘significant reform to healthcare’ GDS recruits for head of responsible data innovation and AI   Ministers hit back at ‘unsubstantiated’ propriety allegations regarding Scottish tech start-up scheme DSIT alerts market to £250m cloud plans to support massive AI power up DWP seeks senior leader to tackle cybersecurity vulnerabilities Cyber graduate roles emerge as Whitehall’s most hotly contested DWP picks IBM for potential £30m deal to use AI to meet ‘key business challenges and opportunities’ Calls for procurement innovation to better support policy

Features

5 Minutes
Features Government and politics

Parties across the spectrum united in opposing Starmer’s digital ID plan

Sam Trendall September 26, 2025
Responses to proposals give Downing Street a range of damning assessments to choose from, including, ‘painfully out of touch and increasingly authoritarian’, ‘ludicrous and ill thought out’, and ‘wholly unBritish’ […]...
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Interview: MoJ leader on how digital can support reform and rehabilitation

September 2, 2025

Data ownership, shadow AI and One Login expansion: Five things we learned at the Socitm President’s Conference

August 27, 2025
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How departments are using data analytics to combat fraud

July 31, 2025

HMRC Transformation Roadmap: New citizen services, more revenue and ‘cultural change’ across department

July 23, 2025

Opinion

3 Minutes
Cyber Security Hub Opinion

Fear vs cheer: Can we ever strike the right tone on cyber?

September 5, 2025

How NISTA can drive sustained transformation

September 1, 2025

Procurement should be a bridge, not a barrier, to local SMEs

July 11, 2025

Failing to secure public trust could derail government’s AI agenda

April 22, 2025

Local government leaders must give permission and support to digital colleagues to create the right future

April 16, 2025
3 Minutes
Business and industry News

‘Increased visibility and financial accountability’ – Home Office to create internal expert team to manage hundreds of millions in public cloud spending

Sam Trendall September 5, 2024 191 Comments on ‘Increased visibility and financial accountability’ – Home Office to create internal expert team to manage hundreds of millions in public cloud spending
The department has specified that it does not wish to simply procure a specialist outsourced service, but wishes to work with an independent expert to create its own FinOps function […]...
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2 Minutes
Defence and Security News

Microsoft outage: Government to ‘review lessons learned and improve response plans’ for future shutdowns

Sam Trendall September 4, 2024 54 Comments on Microsoft outage: Government to ‘review lessons learned and improve response plans’ for future shutdowns
Agencies including NCSC and CDDO will examine the impact of the recent global incident, with the aim of informing how departments and ministers respond to similar issues in the future […]...
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