IT for government and public sector
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Feature
08 Dec 2024
Post Office Horizon scandal explained: Everything you need to know
Computer Weekly has investigated the Post Office Horizon scandal since 2008 and is, in fact, part of the story. This guide contains essential information about the scandal Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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Opinion
06 Dec 2024
Six trends that will define cyber through to 2030
From Covid-19 to war in Ukraine, SolarWinds Sunburst, Kaseya, Log4j, MOVEit and more, the past five years brought cyber to mainstream attention, but what comes next? The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank looks ahead to the second half of the 2020s Continue Reading
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News
26 Oct 2011
One in five IT staff expected to quit current employer within 12 months
One in five IT staff are likely to leave their current employer next year in search of more interesting projects and career opportunities, while 80% feel they need a job change to progress their career, according to exclusive research. Continue Reading
By- Jenny Williams, University of Gloucestershire
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News
25 Oct 2011
Microsoft claims most Android smartphone manufacturers now pay patent fees
Microsoft has claimed most Android smartphone manufacturers now pay the software giant patent fees. Continue Reading
By- Kathleen Hall, TechTarget
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News
13 May 2011
White House proposes cyber network security legislation
The White House has proposed cyber security legislation to protect the US government and private computer systems from millions of daily cyber attacks. Continue Reading
By- Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst
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Blog Post
12 May 2011
Universal Credit possible if politicians don't interfere, says IT chief
DWP can manage the massive reorganisation of computer systems demanded by Universal Credit as long as politicians don't move the goalposts and over-complicate matters for departmental techies, said ... Continue Reading
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Tip
05 May 2011
6 data warehouse design mistakes to avoid
Although difficult, flawless data warehouse design is a must for a successful BI system. Avoid these six mistakes to make your data warehouse perfect. Continue Reading
By- Amit Agarwal
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Blog Post
30 Mar 2011
Government to end ICT "oligopoly"
The government has promised to bring down the ICT oligopoly as part of a strategy that may have seismic consequences for the public and private sectors. Continue Reading
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News
29 Mar 2011
Government puts open source at the heart of its new IT strategy
The government has launched its much-anticipated new IT strategy, highlighting open source and a promise that the coalition will do things better. Continue Reading
By- Kathleen Hall, TechTarget
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News
17 Mar 2011
Government Digital Service launched to oversee Whitehall websites
Whitehall has set up a new organisation to oversee moves to improve the digital delivery of public services. Continue Reading
By- Bryan Glick, Editor in chief
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News
02 Mar 2011
Government losing billions by not moving to the cloud
The public sector could be making unnecessary redundancies due to a reluctance to innovate in IT and shift to the cloud, says former CIO John Suffolk Continue Reading
By- Kathleen Hall, TechTarget
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News
22 Feb 2011
Middle East governments stepping up internet control, study shows
The internet has proved to be a powerful tool for rallying social and political change, but Middle East governments have also recognised their capability to disrupt communications Continue Reading
By- Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst
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News
14 Feb 2011
Intellect presses government to promote IT in UK economic growth
The government has agreed to promote the role of technology in leading the UK's economic growth, following a meeting with IT industry body Intellect. Continue Reading
By- Kathleen Hall, TechTarget
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News
25 Jan 2011
Smart meter and smart grids: security risk or opportunity?
A smart meter in every home in the UK by 2017 is the government plan as a first step towards a smart grid, but how can we ensure the benefits will outweigh the security risks? Continue Reading
By- Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst
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News
10 Jan 2011
US government issues Twitter subpoena over Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
Twitter has been issued with a subpoena by the US government to release the personal details of people connected to Wikileaks, including founder Julian Assange. Continue Reading
By- Kathleen Hall, TechTarget
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News
06 Jan 2011
Government unveils £200m tech centre network details
The government has published plans to spend £200m on a network of high-tech manufacturing centres Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Jun 2010
IT openness is coming - Cabinet Office
Government CIO John Suffolk and his colleagues are preparing plans for the publication of IT-related documents that have always been secret and difficult to obtain even under the Freedom of ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Jun 2010
iSoft issues market update, and its share price rises
iSoft, an important supplier to the NHS IT scheme, issued a market update today, which appears to have been well received by the market as the company's share price rose by about 16% to 28.5 cents. ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Jun 2010
Life made a misery after IBM took over congestion charge
"Since IBM took over the 'auto-pay' system my life has been a misery" - Bryan Thompson, Operations Director at car rental company Miles & Miles.There are plans to extend the problematic ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Jun 2010
Will Coalition scrap opt-out model for summary care records?
Pulse magazine says the BMA is confident it can convince the new government to order a new opt-in model for summary care records. Opt-in is likely to mean that patients would give their consent to ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Jun 2010
Early-day motion calls for immediate halt to summary care records uploads
A new Liberal Democrat MP has put down an early-day motion that "calls on the Government to halt all SCR [summary care records] updates, effective immediately, pending its promised comprehensive ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 May 2010
£6bn of savings - some of the impact on IT
The Treasury outlines in a statement today (24 May 2010) how the government will save £6bn in 2010/11. There's no detail, only headline figures. This is what the statement says: "Government ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 May 2010
Would Tories create raft of new IT-related projects?
Board directors of major Government IT suppliers have good reason to vote Tory Plans for major outsourcing deals already underway in private? Sir Peter Gershon, adviser to the Conservative Party, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Apr 2010
More cracks in the NPfIT - or an unlocking of Trust restraints?
Smarthealthcare.com reports that the Department of Health is allowing some trusts in the north of England to use an alternative to the Lorenzo software they were going to install from their NPfIT ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Apr 2010
Tory manifesto: what about the promise to publish Gateway reviews?
On the "Make IT Better" website, which is run by the Conservative Party, is a promise to publish gateway reviews "when they are produced, and allow the public to scrutinise the value and progress ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Apr 2010
Is the NPfIT in London now officially in tatters?
Ruth Carnall, the Chief Executive of NHS London, has told all London NHS Chief Executives that a cut of more than £100m in funding for BT's NPfIT contract means that "it will no longer be possible ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Apr 2010
New NHS BT deal in London needs close scrutiny
John Cruickshank, a specialist with a long track record working in health IT, writes for 2020health, which describes itself as a centre-right web-based think-tank for health and ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
06 Apr 2010
Congrats to Bristol City Council
Bristol City Council is making available Google Analytics statistics on the use of its website. This is the sort of openness which makes Bristol a local authority exemplar: On the Google Analytics ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Mar 2010
MP questions NHS CIO on BT, CSC, Lorenzo and Cerner
MP Richard Bacon, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, who has followed the NPfIT more closely than any other MP, yesterday sent a list of questions to Christine Connelly, the Department of ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Mar 2010
Will health IT programme in US follow the NPfIT?
Health Care Renewal predicts that the National Program for Healthcare IT in the US is likely, in 2015, to resemble the National Programme for IT in the NHS in 2010. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Mar 2010
CfH responds to "NPfIT close to imploding" claim
The Department of Health has responded to as long article in The Guardian saying that the NPfIT is close to imploding. A spokesperson said:"We are continuing to work with the NHS at local level to ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Mar 2010
Summary Care Records: the truth or nothing like it?
Richard Veryard has written a response to our report on inaccuracies and ommisions in the Summary Care Records database. He writes:"What's wrong with the single version of truth." Researchers at ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 Mar 2010
Do new rules on use of Police National Database go far enough?
The National Policing Improvement Agency today publishes a code which governs the use of a new intelligence system that, in effect, implements some of the main recommendations of the Bichard ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 Mar 2010
Catering staff given access to electronic health records
The Irish Independent says that catering staff were able to access confidential patient information held on a £54m health service record system which is being rolled out across Ireland.The ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Mar 2010
Too many destructive vested interests in Govt IT?
In response to the article on this blog by Rob Bowley, on whether Agile can help solve Government IT problems, Matt writes:"Not if what I've seen of 'agile' approaches in government IT is anything ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Mar 2010
Conservatives move towards a Freedom of Data Act?
Today the Conservatives are launching their 'Tech Manifesto'. It contains a bold new commitment: a 'Right to Government Data', says Stephen Shakespeare who is chairman of the Network for the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Mar 2010
Could Agile help solve the government's IT problems?
Computer Weekly published today a call by the British Medical Association to halt what it calls a rushed roll-out of an imperfect Care Records Service. Responding to the article, Rob Bowley has ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Mar 2010
BMA and CfH argue it out over NPfIT Summary Care Records
Would Summary Care Records have saved the life of Penny Campbell?[Comments 5 and 6 after this article correct some of the impressions I have given. The SCR is equipped to take GP notes] It's rare ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Mar 2010
Government IT should be "part of the election debate"
David Chassels is a former Director of 3i Corporate Finance in Scotland, and a former partner at BDO. He's now CEO of software house Procession, based at Chesham, Buckinghamshire. He writes to me ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Mar 2010
Put a financial value on protecting data says ICO
The Information Commissioner's Office is asking businesses and organisations to put a financial value on protecting personal information.Yesterday the ICO, at the Data Protection Officer Conference ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
04 Mar 2010
Priorities for Government CIOs in 2010 and beyond - Gartner
Andrea Di Maio, vice president at Gartner, says that by 2012 "one in five government processes will rely on "crowdsourced" data". He says CIOs will need to handle a shift from providing ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Mar 2010
What the next Government should do about the NPfIT
Tom Brooks, who spoke about NHS IT on last night's BBC R4 File on 4 broadcast, has let me have his suggestions on what the next government should do about the NPfIT. Brooks, a much-respected figure ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Jan 2010
Germany shelves £1.5bn e-health card scheme
Germany has shelved the introduction of the country's e-health card system, which has so far cost £1.5bn, according to the British Medical Journal.The journal says the decision to put the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Jan 2010
Flawed Chinook Fadec updated only after fatal Mull crash
Faulty safety-critical "Fadec" software that was installed on the Chinook Mk2 helicopter had secret modifications after the notorious fatal crash on the Mull of Kintyre, Computer Weekly has ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Jan 2010
Tories repeat commitment to review Chinook crash findings
The House of Commons held a short debate yesterday on the notorious, fatal crash of Chinook ZD576 on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994. During the debate, the Shadow Defence Minister, Gerald ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Jan 2010
Chinook Mk2: we publish new evidence of computer problems
The lead news item on BBC radio and TV news for much of yesterday referred to computer-related evidence about the Chinook Mk2, of the type that crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994. The ... Continue Reading
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News
07 Dec 2009
NHS IT scheme to be scaled back
The Chancellor Alistair Darling and the Treasury are to scale back spending on the NHS's National Programme for IT. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Sep 2009
iSoft and Lorenzo - the good news keeps on coming?
Below are excerpts from the iSoft's annual report, which is published today [1 September 2009] in Australia. IBA Health in Australia acquired iSoft and has now adopted its name. The annual report ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Aug 2009
Whitehall dismisses Tory review report of NHS IT
The Tories are due today to publish the results of a review of the NPfIT, led by Dr Glyn Hayes, former chairman of the British Computer Society's Health Informatics Forum. Dr Hayes, chairman of the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Jul 2009
Cerner's latest results: UK and US highlights
In a Cerner conference call after an announcement of the company's s second-quarter results, there was much discussion about "meaningful use" - a phrase which can unlock money from Congress for ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Apr 2009
NPfIT critics and the Damian McBride smear culture
The culture of smear goes much deeper than the Damian McBride affair. Critics of the National Programme for IT [NPfIT] in the NHS have been the subject of smears in debates in the House of Commons ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 Jan 2009
Report of public accounts MPs on NHS IT - main findings
Today's report of the Public Accounts Committee on the £12.7bn National Programme for IT says it is not yet providing value for money - though the project has existed for nearly seven years. The ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Jun 2008
Chinook ZD576 - a rare, perhaps unique, photo
This photo of Chinook ZD576 is the copyright of Robin Crorie who has given kind permission for it to be used by Computer Weekly in connection with the Campaign for Justice to clear the names of the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Apr 2008
Some of the good and bad at HC2008 - a summing up
Comment: My highly subjective overview of some of the good and bad at HC2008, the annual Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate.. The bad: Some of the speeches were, as in previous years, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Feb 2008
Police to be allowed searches of national database of NHS patient records
News analysis It went largely unnoticed but the minister for the NHS’s National Programme for IT, Ben Bradshaw, has confirmed that data on a central database of millions of confidential health ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Feb 2008
ID Cards and the NPfIT – nobody is “responsible”
Cabinet ministers come and go, as do prime ministers, and heads of departments. So who will actually be responsible for ID cards or the NHS's National Programme for IT? Nobody. Thank you to Brian ... Continue Reading
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News
22 Jan 2008
Fujitsu may quit NHS National Programme for IT
The board of an NHS trust has learned of a "significant" risk of Fujitsu ending its £900m contract to supply and implement hospital systems across southern England as part of the National Programme for IT. Continue Reading
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20 Nov 2007
Computer Weekly interviews heads of £5bn Defence Information Infrastructure project
In this blog entry the two leaders of the £5bn Defence Information Infrastructure contract [DII], who represent the Ministry of Defence and the Atlas consortium of suppliers, led by services ... Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2007
Richard Granger's departure may jeopardise NHS IT programme
Richard Granger's departure from Connecting for Health may jeopardise the stability and success of the politically driven NHS National Programme for IT. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Apr 2007
Letter from 79 doctors, nurses and secretaries over go-live of NHS IT system
This is a letter signed by 79 doctors, nurses and secretaries at Milton Keynes General Hospital regarding the implementation of a Care Records Service under the NHS's National Programme for IT ... Continue Reading
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News
11 Feb 2007
Cybersecurity czar signals government cooperation at RSA Conference
Cybersecurity chief, Greg Garcia told RSA Conference attendees that government, enterprises and academia need to work together to fight growing Internet threats. Continue Reading
By- Marcia Savage, Features Editor, Information Security Magazine
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News
30 Nov 2006
Terrorists may target financial sites
The U.S. government is warning of an al-Qaida call for a cyberattack against online stock trading and banking Web sites Continue Reading
By- SearchSecurity.com Staff
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Feature
11 Apr 2006
Questions that need to be answered on NHS IT plan
Four years ago the government announced to a grateful NHS a national IT programme that would become the world's largest civil computer scheme. Continue Reading
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News
17 May 2005
Should the government define spyware?
Who's best qualified to define what is and isn't spyware -- your congressman or your online user community? Security experts say no entity can do it alone. Continue Reading
By - News 01 Mar 2004
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News
10 Nov 2003
NHS IT plan risky but will not fail, says OGC
The £2.3bn national programme to modernise health service IT systems is "risky and ambitious" but it has sufficient safeguards in... Continue Reading
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News
28 Jul 2003
Court blocks former ICL solicitor's Pathway claim
Fujitsu has won a court ruling to stop a former solicitor for the company pursuing allegations about the government's disastrous... Continue Reading
By - News 11 Mar 2001