First trusts to adopt digital hospital-appointment booking unveiled as deadline looms to ditch paper system
Sherwood Forest and County Durham and Darlington trusts lead the way
Attorney general to examine risks of ‘trial by social media’
Jeremy Wright unveils call for evidence after instances of online commentary obstructing the...
Digital chief lifts lid on how HMRC pulled off the biggest tax change in 70 years without anyone noticing
Interim CDIO Mike Potter also discusses how the department is leading the way on mobile apps and...
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Ordnance Survey releases database of every green space in England, Scotland, and Wales
Comprehensive map allows public to locate parks, children's play areas, playing fields and more, and use the data to create business ventures
Pendle Borough Council hatches plan to digitise 2/3 of citizen transactions within five years
North west council signs £54m 10-year contract with outsourcer Liberata to drive digital transformation agenda
Government invests £16m in three sites for 'world's first' 5G trial project
University of Surrey, Bristol University, and King's College London join forces to become 5G hub
Why the government should protect IT spending
IT reseller Insight's public sector chief argues that failing to invest in digital could hurt the government's ability to deliver services
#CultureisDigital – DCMS asks for your tweets as it looks to help art and tech unite
Department asks for representatives from both IT and culture to help solve four main challenges
IT titans commit to follow government's lead on 30-day payment-terms pledge
Firms including Microsoft, IBM, Fujitsu, and HP sign up for new Prompt Payment Code
Government scraps tax on fibre investments
New bill offers full tax relief, saving businesses an estimated £60m
'It's not a choice between privacy or innovation', ICO tells NHS trusts
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
‘Alexa, what is the GDP?’ How the ONS is planning for a technological future
David Best joined the Office for National Statistics two years ago and is, by his reckoning, a third of the way through an ambitious reform programme. He tells Rebecca Hill about heritage systems, culture change and thinking ahead
One in three PCCs overlook online fraud in police and crime plans - report
Report from National Audit Office claims public sector must do more to combat problem
Canon and Xerox to compete with local SMEs as eight firms land on £60m-plus Scottish Government print framework
Possible four-year deal covers broad range of public sector bodies and comprehensive portfolio of products and services
'Like swimming in a pool of sharks' - less than one in 4,000 Met Police PCs running latest version of Windows
More than half of force's PC estate still running on unsupported Windows XP operating system
How the public sector can remove barriers to cloud
James Butler of software and IT services firm Trustmarque examines how to ‘bridge the gap’ between private and public sector adoption
DVLA sets target for abandoning legacy systems
The DVLA has announced plans to move off the majority of its legacy systems within three years.
Review into London Ambulance Service New Year outage reveals ‘significant shortcomings in IT processes’
Outage in early hours of 2017 saw call-handling and dispatch system fall over
New Scottish information commissioner to be appointed
A motion to appoint lawyer Daren Fitzhenry is to be put before the Scottish Parliament
Public facilities should do away with downtime
Ensuring spaces can be booked by the public and other bodies can bring in revenue and create efficiencies, argues Chris Smith of Kajima
Virtual ID cards mooted for settled EU citizens
The UK would introduce an Estonia-style virtual identity card for EU nationals who settle in the UK following Brexit, according to reports.
Group chat an indispensable tool within Whitehall
Group chat services can make civil servants more efficient by reducing email overload. If government does not embrace them, it will lose out
WannaCry NHS attack - lessons for data recovery strategies
A fresh look at data protection and backup best practice, particularly when it comes to ransomware.
Birmingham set to approve new ICT delivery regime
Council reveals more details of new ICT model, including SIAM and strengthened governance arrangements