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NHS app users top 16 million as uptake boosts organ donor registrations
Download spike also prompts rise in digital prescriptions and use of technology to book GP appointments
Scotland to accept vaccine status spot checks for large events
Football matches and other gatherings will not be asked to check every single visitor
MoJ convenes group to boost credentials of electronic signatures
Expert panel intends to implement standards and increase confidence in use of technology
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Review of EU laws aims to remove ‘overbearing regulations’ on data and tech
Citizens will also be invited to submit ideas for ‘reducing or eliminating regulation’
Minister wants to develop tech to ensure collection of rape victims’ digital data is ‘not intrusive’
Initiative aims to explore use of technology to limit data extracted during investigations
Army cites importance of robotics and autonomous vehicles on ‘battlefield of tomorrow’
Future Solider initiative aims to drive innovation
Flexible working ‘a huge positive’ of pandemic, says civil service chief
Alex Chisholm salutes benefits of homeworking options
DHSC contract covers out-of-hours GOV.UK Covid updates
Urgent amendments will be supported by digital content specialist Scroll
Public appointments chief flags ‘unacceptable and unexplained delays’ in recruiting major posts
Michael Gove criticised after ‘avoidable’ setbacks to appointments including new information commissioner and Ofcom chair
Scotland to press on with plans for mandatory vaccine status for events and nightclubs
Citizens will be required to demonstrate status from start of next month
Birmingham City Council gets digital inclusion team
Cabinet go ahead for digital inclusion strategy paves ways for team to ensure online services are accessible to all
App-based freedoms and the relentless battle for cybersecurity
As our movements increasingly depend on using our smartphones to demonstrate status, we need to ensure technology is secure, according to Dr Sarah Morris, of Cranfield University.
South Essex councils get £2.5m broadband boost
Government funding will enable councils to complete 200km full fibre broadband infrastructure
Scottish Government opens up on officials’ business interests
Civil servants with second jobs or company directorships includes member of digital directorate
What next for the NHS GP data collection scheme?
Today was supposed to mark the commencement of data-gathering for the controversial GPDPR scheme – but plans are now on hold. PublicTechnology recaps the story so far.
Post-Brexit data-protection regime to deliver 'common sense, not box-ticking'
Government signals intent for more-business friendly environment as it plans partnerships with the likes of the US, Colombia, India and Kenya
Osborne’s grandstanding on Google tax deal showed need for greater HMRC autonomy, report finds
MPs want greater transparency and scrutiny – and less interference from the Treasury – on bespoke taxation deals with large firms
DHSC explores ‘digital solutions for weight-management services’
Department to undertake discovery exercise
Northern Ireland Civil Service puts finishing touches to first two flexible-working hubs
Facilities in Downpatrick and Ballykelly ready to open in spring
DWP seeks £5m digital partner to help meet urgent Universal Credit migration challenges
Supplier sought for two-year contract as department admits it is ‘unable to scale at sufficient speed’
Government explores drones and 3D printing to fix potholes
Input encouraged from innovative SMEs from outside the transport sector
Gloucestershire seeks ‘data partner’ to support analytics ambitions
County council seeks to ‘enable cultural change’
Calls for pay cut for remote-working civil servants were ‘unhelpful’, says Gove
But minister adds that return to office may deliver ‘productivity advantages’
‘A unique opportunity’ – Scottish Government consults public on keeping Covid innovations
Authorities seek citizen views on legal and operational developments