Whitehall’s top official admits need to improve civil service technical skills
Simon Case claims government has improved data handling and support for innovation but there is more to do
Report crowns Manchester top UK hotspot for tech start-ups
City is the best place outside London to start a technology business, study finds
NHS Digital and NHSX to be merged into NHS England
Leaders of technology units say that subsumption will accelerate transformation and enable...
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Defra revamps recruitment to reduce reliance on consultants
Digital chief Harriet Green tells PublicTechnology Live event that department has focused on specialisms, rather than the generalist skills the civil service recruitment process is designed to find
Hancock a shareholder in family document digitisation firm that won NHS deals
DHSC says health secretary ‘acted entirely properly’
Scottish parliamentary candidates urged to back data ethics and diversity campaign
Prospective MSPs encouraged to sign pledge to 'democratise data’
How DWP built an engineering community to support its digital ambitions
Head of engineering Stuart Taylor discusses how 1,000 staff across the department support each other’s work
Nine in ten prescriptions now fulfilled electronically
Minister says paper options will remain available
Test and Trace hired £40,000-a-day digital team after failure ‘to source civil servants with these skills’
Procurement data reveals consultancy brought in to cover six-month drive to recruit specialists
Commission calls for app for citizens to track government money – and no more spending reviews
Paper urges overhaul of financial planning system
Government faces opposition to Covid status certification from across political spectrum
Opposition parties and its own MPs may vote against plans when given the chance to do so
Cyber guru appointed UK’s first director of homeland security
Former NCSC bigwig Chloe Squires joins Home Office
Government promises ‘tough new regulator’ will stand up to Facebook and Google
Digital Markets Unit could spearhead implementation of codes of conduct for tech giants
NHS workers must be at the centre of technology reform
The health service’s IT infrastructure badly needs an update. But modernisation efforts must not focus solely on the technology, believes Matt Fetzer of Reform.
Optimising the Benefits of Hybrid IT
SolarWinds explains how public sector organisations can make the most of their hybrid IT investments - delivering services that are both innovative and reliable
Avoid Infrastructure Paralysis: Six benefits of moving legacy Oracle workloads to the cloud
There are many reasons to keep your Oracle workloads running on local servers. But there are even more reasons to move them to the cloud as part of a wider digital transition strategy. Six Degrees gives six benefits of moving legacy Oracle workloads to the cloud.
All about that BEIS – department set to keep name despite Industrial Strategy death knell
Move away from policy plan will not occasion rebrand of department, government claims
Whitehall leaders need to better support staff innovation, NAO report finds
Assessment picks out a series of barriers to improving government’s operational performance
HMRC offers £150k for chief data officer
Department looking to fill ‘one of the biggest roles in the UK’
Ofcom lifts lid on plan to diversify 5G market
The SmartRAN Open Network Interoperability Centre will be available to both existing and emerging 5G suppliers
Scottish Government appoints adviser to assist tech economy
Former Skyscanner senior exec Mark Logan will advise on how IT industry can help drive recovery
GOV.UK accounts system will ‘build on lessons of Verify’, minister says
Julia Lopez claims that identity assurance tool ‘continues to work well’