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IT for government and public sector

  • January 13, 2012 13 Jan'12

    NHS Trust to appeal £375k data loss penalty

    An NHS Trust is to appeal against a proposed monetary penalty of £375,000 after after patient records were stolen from a hospital and sold on eBay.

  • January 11, 2012 11 Jan'12

    ICT curriculum for GCSE is scrapped

    The government is to scrap the teaching of GCSE ICT in schools this September, with plans to replace the subject with the “rigorous” teaching of computer science and programming subjects.

  • January 10, 2012 10 Jan'12

    Healthcare IT is a beneficial force, say doctors

    IT in the NHS has had a bad press in recent years as a result of the problems associated with the now defunct £12bn NHS National Programme for IT, but most doctors in England believe IT improves patient care.

  • January 10, 2012 10 Jan'12

    Accenture bolsters public sector skills

    Services giant Accenture has recruited two former civil servants to its ranks to boost its UK and global public sector services capabilities.

  • January 09, 2012 09 Jan'12

    Olympics resale site still offline after two days

    The Olympics tickets resale site has been offline for more than two days, after tens of thousands of people clamoured online buy unwanted tickets on 6 January.

  • January 06, 2012 06 Jan'12

    Ramnit worm steals 45,000 Facebook passwords

    A computer worm has begun targeting Facebook accounts and has stolen at least 45,000 login credentials from users, say security researchers.