DHSC buys 16,000 iPhones for Test and Trace scheme
Department spends £4m on deal with Jigsaw24
PM pledges to publish more data on vaccine rollout
Johnson claims government will provide more localised breakdowns
NHS trusts to implement £7.5m digital shift-planning tech
Government funds rollout across 38 trusts
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Wales clearing data backlog of thousands of Covid cases after IT system maintenance
Authorities insist delay in publishing data has not affected individuals receiving results
NAO finds Test and Trace outsourcing saw ‘substantial resources spent on staff providing minimal services’
Call-handlers were unoccupied half the time, auditors’ report found
Minister pledges to improve access to Covid testing ‘via non-digital routes’
Users are encouraged to use online platform, but DHSC insists other methods can be used
DHSC signs £2m six-month deal to improve ability to ‘respond to recover from a cyberattack’
Health department awards security design and architecture contract through G-Cloud framework
Government urged to bring in emergency legislation to combat vaccine disinformation
Shadow minister and campaign group call for new laws
How automation and data-sharing enabled DWP to transform the state pension service
After a digital and data revamp, more than half of claims are entirely self-service, product owner Vicky Coatesworth tells PublicTechnology
Union calls for private care homes to be subject to FOI laws
Unison Scotland urges change in legislation after ‘lethal failures over Covid’
Hancock and Dowden ask social networks to stem vaccine misinformation
Ministers met with platforms last month
AI scientists receive £20m research funding
Fifteen people have been named Turing fellows
Defence contractor BAE awarded £4.3m deal to support Test and Trace data processing
Company’s Applied Intelligence tech consulting unit wins six-month contract
Government explores AI to monitor use of face coverings
Technology could then provide messages designed to promote ‘positive engagement’
‘This year has really made the case for what we’re trying to do’
At the end of a challenging year, local government chiefs discuss the impact on digital and data
Scottish care homes to be equipped with iPads
Public funding of £1m will support two devices in every care home
Parliament ‘urgently exploring’ remote tech options after MP with cancer excluded from debate
Tracey Crouch was unable to join a debate about breast cancer – for which she is currently being treated
NHS 111 service struggled with demand from north-west callers last month
More than a quarter of callers in region hung up on telephone advice service while three in four queries were not answered within a minute
New £140k leader sought for emergency services network rollout
Troubled programme recruiting for senior responsible owner
Bob Hudson appointed as first head of Digital Health and Care Wales
Welsh government moves opening of IT special health authority to April due to Covid-19
HMRC keeps digital users happy as fewer people phone
Department says long call waiting times resulted from staff moving to work on coronavirus support schemes