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After Royal Free is found to have breached Data Protection Act, information commissioner Elizabeth Denham offers four-point checklist for other trusts in their use of technology and data

James Butler of software and IT services firm Trustmarque examines how to ‘bridge the gap’ between private and public sector adoption

The DVLA has announced  plans to move off the majority of its legacy systems within three years.

Ensuring spaces can be booked by the public and other bodies can bring in revenue and create efficiencies, argues Chris Smith of Kajima

The UK would introduce an Estonia-style virtual identity card for EU nationals who settle in the UK following Brexit, according to reports.

Joe Kim of SolarWinds looks at what government IT pros can expect from hybrid IT, and whether implementing it will provide any benefits

Four suppliers expected to tender to supply patient administration and clinical systems to primary care providers

Des Ward, information governance director at Innopsis, reflects on the real story behind the WannaCry cyber-attack.

The £90k role will oversee the delivery of the DVLA's ICT and digital vision

Tackling shadow IT should be an urgent priority for government in the wake of the WannaCry breach on the NHS, says Julian Cook.

An NHS-wide cloud for sharing diagnostic images and intelligence across the health service could mean huge economies of scale, stronger collaboration, and rapid digitisation, according to Jane Rendall and Fredrik Gustavsson.

The UK government says that it wants to move to the Cloud. Here’s why it’s not happening yet.

• G-Cloud pioneer will leave his current job at the Institute for Apprenticeships at the end of July.

The new iteration of G-Cloud launches today, with changes intended to make it easier to find relevant services – view the list of 2,847 suppliers making it onto the framework.

A council was forced to block all emails from the public and external organisations for a week following the NHS cyber attack, it has emerged

Advert for team of six with a £600,000 budget comes as former privacy adviser calls for a total review and reset of the government’s identity assurance services

Scoping exercise launched for an organisation to cut down duplication and add value to a tech ecosystem that ‘drifts too readily’ towards tech solutions in search of problems

Commentators say scale of work was ‘underestimated’ by both sides - but smaller scale pilots offer opportunity to boost collaboration between central and local government

Eduserv report finds that just 3% of local government HR leaders rate digital literacy of frontline staff as ‘good’ - and that traditional, formal training programmes might not be the best option

Industry body calls on mayors to appoint a chief digital and innovation champion and use their influence to boost smart procurement, open data and digital skills

Survey finds public sector isn’t making the most of digital, with costs, culture and legacy systems identified as major barriers to transformation