Lanarkshire trials video GP consultations
Patients in Scotland given option of virtual appointments via PC or mobile device
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Emergency Services Network completion pushed back to December 2024
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All prison officers in England and Wales to get body-worn cameras
Government spends £2m on equipping 5,600 staff with technology designed to improve safety
Government invests £51m in driverless car schemes
Projects to build testing facilities across the UK receive chunks of £100m funding pot
MoD and Home Office put £1.6m into robot and drone projects for hazardous environments
Four UK tech SMEs have received backing for technologies designed to safely assess the potential presence of dangerous matter
Major report urges government to create dedicated AI programme for public sector
A government-commissioned study makes 18 recommendations, including asking GDS to help create a scheme to boost public sector use of artificial intelligence
HMRC takes over 75 ‘scam’ websites in brand-abuse crackdown
Department claims to have prevented more than one million visits to misleading sites so far this year
London CCGs urged to embrace NHS digital data-sharing scheme ‘even if all you can do is create a PDF’
London Health and Care Information Exchange is also developing offer online accounts for patients
Digital included in first wave of T level courses
New technical qualification to be taught from 2020 will be ‘as rigorous and respected as A levels’, education secretary pledges
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital to trial wireless environment sensors in intensive care units
Sensors can monitor room temperature and carbon monoxide concentrations
NHS Spine is a better option for data-sharing than local care records
Tas Hind of Essentia argues that STPs have a ready-made system in place for sharing patient data with bodies across the NHS and its public-sector partners
No paper tickets needed by 2019 – government spends £80m on smart railways
Digital travelcards and mobile barcodes set for widespread introduction
Government offers social networks ‘groundbreaking’ software to combat child abuse
Home Office invests £600,000 in digital-fingerprint plug-in
Government needs a more commercial mindset on customer service
Gavin Mee of Salesforce argues that government needs to think more like the private sector in its approach to service delivery
Don’t fear the robots – tech automation to have less impact on public sector jobs, report claims
Study from Nesta and Oxford University predicts that the civil service and wider public sector will see fewer jobs lost to automation than other industries
Think tank calls for urgent review of how blockchain could help – and hinder – police
The Police Foundation identifies various potential benefits and challenges of distributed-ledger technology
Leeds and Liverpool join Limerick and Las Vegas as signatories to smart-city manifesto
Global communications industry association gets wide range of public and private entities to sign up to 10-point plan
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 application of justice
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 blockchain, and why he wants a tax service built around life events
All-male committee would be harmful to science
Sarah Main of the Campaign for Science and Engineering urges parliament to recognise its responsibility in serving as a figurehead for scientific debate
Foreign Office works with GDS to revamp digital services for UK citizens abroad
Government creates 229 dedicated pages for services in individual countries and streamlines embassy sites
Introducing the Harris T7 – the MoD’s new £1m bomb-disposal robot
Ministry announces major deal to acquire 56 specialised machines