Constituents report MP to ICO over alleged data-protection breach in Facebook post
Data-protection watchdog ‘making enquiries’ after Conservative Gordon Henderson publishes names and partial addresses of local residents who sent him a letter
Digital-identity policy function shifted from GDS to DCMS
Move follows the earlier transfer of data policymakers
NHS Digital commits £1.5m to help data sharing between health and social care
Funding to be made available in three streams, addressing current and potential uses of digital...
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Bids invited for £500m HSCN dynamic purchasing system
November launch scheduled for platform allowing buyers to purchase connectivity services for incoming NHS network
From GPs to the DWP – the public sector must ensure digital is not the only answer
Digital transformation can bring great benefits, but the needs of the millions of people that still need non-digital means of interacting with government must not be overlooked, argues PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall
Major report urges government to create dedicated AI programme for public sector
A government-commissioned study makes 18 recommendations, including asking GDS to help create a scheme to boost public sector use of artificial intelligence
'Officers can spend thousands more hours out in the community' – inside Manchester police's mobile revolution
Chief superintendent of information services transformation tells PublicTechnology how tech has allowed GMP to do 8,000 hours of extra policing and become 'the only force in the country' to equip officers with devices for both personal and police use
West Sussex council launches investigation after publishing vulnerable citizens’ details online
Local authority disclosed names 1,400 of disabled people and their carers in now-removed spending data spreadsheet
Ministry of Defence signs £400k paging services deal
Ageing communications platform gets another boost from the UK public sector
London CCGs urged to embrace NHS digital data-sharing scheme ‘even if all you can do is create a PDF’
London Health and Care Information Exchange is also developing offer online accounts for patients
DCLG cybersecurity leader urges councils to prepare for inevitable election attacks
Department’s cybersecurity leader urges councils to put electoral staff through cybersecurity training
Do Aylesbury Vale and Alexa have the ‘skill’ for better services?
Aylesbury Vale council’s IT lead Maryvonne Hassall talks to Gill Hitchcock about the potential gains – and pitfalls – of adopting AI in local government
NHS Spine is a better option for data-sharing than local care records
Tas Hind of Essentia argues that STPs have a ready-made system in place for sharing patient data with bodies across the NHS and its public-sector partners
ICO planning ‘three-tier system’ of data-processing fees as post-GDPR funding model
Body pledges new structure will be ‘fair’, with detailed information likely before the end of 2017
Country’s largest NHS trust to deploy digital patient feedback system
Barts in east London to spend £100,000 on new platform for collating FFT data
How The National Archives is digitising 1,000 years of history
Digital director John Sheridan tells PublicTechnology how new technology is changing not only how the UK’s official archive operates, but is altering the very nature of archiving
Leeds to trial person-held record system
City to roll out scheme allowing citizens to access and amend their information
Why the public sector should utilise big data to measure citizen sentiment
Carol Brock of OpenText believes better use of structured and unstructured data could help the government deliver better policy and services
‘We do not want to work above or against you’, NHS Digital tells trusts
Senior management figure tells clinical and administrative staff that digital organisation wants to work collaboratively
Food Standards Agency to connect 220 UK abattoirs
Government agency to roll out networking across slaughterhouses
What all public-sector IT leaders need to know to be ready for GDPR
Victoria Cetinkaya of the Information Commissioner’s Office gives the organisation's top tips for government tech and data chiefs to ensure they are ready for new regulation next year
Why field service management is vital for public sector organisations
Kirona explains what field service is and why public sector organisations need to implement an effective field service management solution
Whitehall digital reform being slowly undone by ‘departmental barons’, warns Francis Maude
But civil service head Jeremy Heywood hits back and claims government departments are ‘sharply improving digital capacity’
GOV.UK Pay service to be extended to local authorities
GDS seeks councils to participate in pilot scheme