Government testing identifies accessibility issues on 99% of public sector websites
CDDO monitoring found that vast majority of sites did not wholly comply with regulations
Sturgeon reported to statistics authority over ‘twisted’ use of ONS Covid data
Objection follows similar complaint about deputy John Swinney
Consultants still comprise one in four Test and Trace workers
Efforts to reduce reliance on external providers have had an impact
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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
Schools adopt range of approaches on digital home learning says Ofsted
Remote schooling provision is ‘patchy’ and has to compete with other technologies says chief inspector
NHS Digital uses Australian terminology to boost clinical data-sharing
Deal for terminology server will map clinical codes to international standards
Regulator calls for government transparency on coronavirus data
Authorities should publish information used to inform policy, stats watchdog urges
MPs slam repeated failures of NHS digital transformation
Public Accounts Committee finds that government and health service have made little progress
NHS Covid app issue saw users only notified when exposed to virus five times longer than planned – report
An update that intended to alert users spending only a few minutes in proximity to a highly infectious person never took effect
New vaccines body extends IBM consultancy deal to enable ‘handover of services’
Tech giant awarded £740,000 contract with VMIC