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What makes government ‘a very tough environment for digital projects’?
Senior officials tell MPs about the challenges they face in delivering major programmes
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...
NAO cites ageing IT and lack of automation in £1bn pension underpayment
A total of 134,000 people were underpaid by DWP, with complex rules and a widespread need for...
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Cabinet reshuffle: What does it mean for digital government?
Julia Lopez, the minister responsible for GDS and CDDO, has moved departments – but the digital divisions may now receive more attention from the top of the Cabinet Office
MoD to investigate data breach that exposed identities of Afghan interpreters
Email blunder ‘needlessly put lives at risk’ according to shadow defence secretary
UK to introduce digital driving licences
Reforms will also encompass provisional licences and MOT documents
HMRC data shows £2bn widening of tax gap
Departmental analysis shows rate rose from 5% to 5.2% in 2019/20
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
Cabinet Office offers £60k for in-house ethical hacker
Department seeks to boost cyber team
NHS Covid app: weekly contact alerts now level with number of positive cases as figure drops below 200,000
Manual contact-tracing is now bearing much of the burden of reaching those who may have been exposed to coronavirus
UK Health Security Agency seeks HR chief that can help deliver tech-powered transformation
New public body seeks chief people officer with experience of using data and digital to support reform
DHSC contract covers out-of-hours GOV.UK Covid updates
Urgent amendments will be supported by digital content specialist Scroll
MPs find lack of assistive technology bars disabled people from jobs
Public Accounts Committee calls on DWP to use good-quality diversity data to improve its employment support
NHS trust AI pilot prompts 80% drop in admissions of vulnerable patients
South Warwickshire trust hails clinical AI ‘another set of eyes’
Study finds government using personal data to target messages
Academics say digital tactics raise legal and ethical questions
‘Unsettling and very stressful’ – Home Office letter warns settled EU citizens of benefit cut-off
Following a government ‘data-matching exercise’ recipients of a recent government mail-out were warned they could be stripped of rights and payments – despite already holding settled status. PublicTechnology investigates.
CCS announces £2bn big data and analytics market
Procurement framework to meet public sector’s growing need for big data and analytics
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.
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.
NHS Test and Trace seeks data scientist to 'work at heart of Covid-19 battle'
Bringing the best data science knowledge and skills in-house could be key to the future effectiveness of NHS Test and Trace
Government bemoans ‘outdated system’ as asylum backlog hits all-time high
Pile of cases continues to grow as government faces calls to help Afghan refugees
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
Transfer of Covid test results to GP records covered by £2m deal
EMIS Health signed deal to cover data flow, procurement info reveals