Public Sector

Without intervention, waiting lists for NHS patients could significantly increase In a speech ahead of the Autumn Budget on 22nd November 2018, the Chief Executive of NHS England, Simon Stevens made a stark warning. He cautioned that without extra funding the improvements made in reducing waiting times for patients over the past decade would be...

Digital transformation is redefining what we think about our place of work. At the heart of this evolution are technologies and the introduction of digital first natives into the workplace. Businesses need to embrace digital transformation and the technology that will create the modern workplace, embracing flexibility and collaboration, in order to attract and keep...

The government has ordered the NHS to stop purchasing fax machines from next month in a bid the phase them out completely by 31 March 2020. The news comes after the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) revealed in July this year that nearly 9,000 fax machines were in use across the NHS in England. This...

A new report from Deloitte, “Government Jobs of the Future,” predicts public-sector positions that could exist by 2025, indicating how technology could help the government sector   Scaremongering in the press often leads to the idea that technology will push people out of their jobs, with its ability to take on multiple people’s work at...

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...