Public Sector

With public sector funding tighter than ever, organisations need to get the most out of their workforce. Here, we look at how technology can improve the output of public sector workers UK workers produce less per hour than their equivalents in France, Germany and the US, according to research conducted by the Office of National...

A new survey suggests that the number of organisations planning to migrate core IT infrastructure to the cloud will considerably rise next year. The report surveyed more than 200 govtech leaders responsible for cloud services and technology transformation and found that 80% of public sector organisations plan to migrate in the next 18 months. Respondents...

Healthcare organisations made up 37% of cyber attacks in Q3 according to cyber security insurance firm Beazley Breach Response (BBR) Services. In recent months, the insurance company has seen the number of reported ransomware incidents climb. The number of notifications of ransomware attacks more than doubled in September, when compared with the previous month. In...

New report Breaking Through Bottlenecks indicates that almost nine in ten (89%) IT decision makers believe efficiency savings are a key driver, yet progression is slow. UK public sector organisations that fail to adopt business process management (BPM) technology are causing ‘bottlenecks’ in their workflow, according to a new report. The research suggested that those that fail...

Europe’s largest independent IT services business, SCC, has been awarded a place on the NEUPC Higher Education Networking Framework (ITS 2004NE) for three ‘Lots’. SCC, founded by British entrepreneur Sir Peter Rigby, provides businesses a vast range of IT services, supporting organisations with all their technology needs. Though new to the Framework, SCC scored very...

Legacy technology could be leaving the NHS open to cyber attacks, according to new research. The discovery was made by staff at Check Point Software, who found exploits in widely used fax machines that could allow hackers to spread malware through a malicious image file.  Check Point uncovered that malware could be coded into an...

A new NHS approved £1.5m ‘Tele-Pharmacy’ has opened in Liverpool aimed at assisting people living with chronic care conditions to manage their medicinal needs through an artificial intelligent (AI) mobile app. ‘Now Patient’, developed by Now Healthcare Group, aims to support up to 15 million people living with long-term health conditions such as cancer, diabetes...

The Government’s ‘Cloud First’ policy was introduced in 2013 and asks public sector organisations, when procuring new or existing services, to “consider and fully evaluate potential cloud solutions first before considering any other option.” The approach is mandatory for central government and strongly recommended to the wider public sector. The government response came after an...

It’s a huge challenge and there is unlikely to be any straightforward strategies, but the National Health Service (NHS) still has quite a way to go until it has been fully digitally transformed. The NHS is the fifth largest employer in the world; according to the NHS Confederation, it deals with more than one million patients...

SCC and NHS Dumfries & Galloway have been nominated for a Digital Leaders 100 award in the Digital Team of the Year category. The event, which launched in 2013, has become the premier list identifying individuals and teams leading digital transformation in the UK. It consists of leaders and organisations who are pioneering change within the...

It’s too easy to focus on the benefits of digitalisation for private businesses, but the effect of a digital-first strategy on the public sector is just as impactful, if not more. The government, unlike private organisations, doesn’t have the same pressures when it comes to taking the decision to go digital, they do not have...

SCC is set to discuss digitisation in Health on Sky digital channel 185. The programme, ‘Digitalisation of Healthcare’, will feature SCC’s Branch Manager for Healthcare and Local Government, James Wallis, who will talk around some of the services SCC offers and how they can in turn impact this discussion. The half-hour programme is set to...