New technology, which hundred of thousands of women will be invited to help test over the coming months, could improve diagnoses while also lessening demands on radiologists, according to DHSC Hundreds of thousands of women will take part in a major NHS trial of artificial intelligence tools| PublicTechnology
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has unveiled proposals to digitise the ‘red book’ children’s health record, as part of wider technological reforms of the NHS a Labour government would undertake The Labour party has unveiled a vision for digitally led NHS reform, powered by “tech entrepr| PublicTechnology
Scottish and UK governments both kick in funding to support programme Credit: Lorenzo Cafaro/Pixabay The Scottish Government has announced it will spend a further £36m to expand its R100 programme to provide rural homes and businesses with faster internet connections. The extension of existin| PublicTechnology
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Tax agency reveals pilot programme and agreement with Home Office that enables border records to be used with the aim of helping to detect claimants that have left the UK HM Revenue and Customs has shed light on a data-sharing programme intended to help catch ineligible recipients of Child Be| PublicTechnology
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The department has trained a machine learning system on thousands of cases to identify and flag characteristics considered as significant indicators of the risk of payment cessation, PublicTechnology can reveal The Department for Work and Pensions has deployed an artificial intelligence tool| PublicTechnology
Under sweeping reforms announced this week by the new Labour administration, Jobcentres and government careers services will be combined, with tech playing an essential role in the newly unified offering Ministers have pledged that major technological transformation of the work of the Departm| PublicTechnology
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Local authority for Westmorland and Furness is advertising a range of vacancies, including positions focused on digital innovation and artificial intelligence, who will play a key role in delivering transformation […]| PublicTechnology
As part of ongoing drive to consider the future of agencies and ALBs, minsters announce that dedicated space entity will move into tech department but will not lose ‘immense ambition’ […]| PublicTechnology
Department agrees new engagement for an initial period of two years, providing continued support for its ID and access tool, but PublicTechnology understands One Login remains in its future plans […]| PublicTechnology
The UK’s regulator for data protection has announced the results of an investigation which found a lack of appropriate backup systems, as well as some poor practice in record keeping […]| PublicTechnology
Jade Leung, a former leader at the firm behind ChatGPT, has been named as Keir Starmer’s leading voice on artificial intelligence, replacing the architect of government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan […]| PublicTechnology
Department appoints AWS specialist to help prepare for upcoming migration to a new provider, but stresses engagement is not focused on a particular vendor and does not portend any preference […]| PublicTechnology
Leading firms have been invited to join civil service tech experts to start work on a prototype of a ‘helper’ that ministers hope could be rolled out to the populace […]| PublicTechnology
Whitehall’s environment department looks to the charity sector for its latest boss, while identifying a candidate with plenty of civil service experience, including various posts in the area of transformation […]| PublicTechnology
Department alerts tech suppliers to its plans to proceed with early planning and exploratory stages of the delivery of a system that will unite information from a range of sources […]| PublicTechnology
Department advertises role as COO of its tech unit, which comes with a wide remit covering overall plans and strategy, as well as oversight of governance, finance, procurement, and communications The Department for Work and Pensions is offering a six-figure salary for an operational leader to| PublicTechnology
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Department signs contracts to support experimentation with possible uses of AI and automation tech, including exploring the use of sophisticated tools, and the ethical and operational ramifications of doing so The Home Office is to explore possible uses of Microsoft’s Copilot generative artif| PublicTechnology
Department issues guidance outlining that popular large language model tool should not be used for official business or on departmental devices, but PublicTechnology understands trials are ongoing of in-house options The Department for Work and Pensions has issued guidance outlawing civil ser| PublicTechnology
Central Digital and Data Office releases detailed guidance on the use of tools like ChatGPT, including 10 guiding principles and advice on how to best implement and use the technology Government has published detailed guidelines for how civil servants should use generative artificial intellig| PublicTechnology
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Benefits department enters into agreement to support upgrades to digital service that underpins initiative launched three years ago to identify claimants to be reviewed for potential overpayment or other error The Department for Work and Pensions has signed a potential £15m deal for a supplie| PublicTechnology
Auditors warn that there is currently ‘no clear plan’ to realise the potential of data to eat into the current tally of up to £80bn lost to fraud each year Departments and their agencies must embark on a concerted drive to employ data analytics to cut down on the public sector’s estimated £55| PublicTechnology
PublicTechnology looks at case studies from a recent National Audit Office investigation into the publicsector’s ongoing efforts to halt billions of pounds in losses through fraud and error Fraud and error in the public sector diverts tens of billions of pounds a year away from service-delive| PublicTechnology
The Treasury Committee chair has suggested that it ‘may no longer be accurate’ to describe the tax agency as non-ministerial, as minister tells MPs of his role to ‘lead change’ HM Revenue and Customs' status as a non-ministerial department "may no longer be accurate" in light of Treasury mini| PublicTechnology
Announcing the new administration’s civil service Plan for Change, Cabinet Office head Pat McFadden outlines an ambition for the institutions of Whitehall to operate more like those of Old Street A major reform agenda set out this week by ministers is intended to help government operate “more| PublicTechnology
The Labour party has assembled a team of big names – including a former permanent secretary and PAC chair – to advise on issues including digital transformation, legacy systems, and legislative change The founder of the Government Digital Service and a former permanent secretary is among a pa| PublicTechnology
The tech consultancy is part of a consortium, also featuring Blavitnik School of Government and New Local, appointed to help government with a ‘team of experienced digital and data practitioners’ The government has kick-started the £100m Public Sector Reform programme and appointed a consort| PublicTechnology
PublicTechnology understands that the department's directors general are working on the rollout of tech programmes that senior leaders believe have ‘a high likelihood of being scalable into the overall business’ The Department for Work and Pensions is to progress its trials of generative arti| PublicTechnology
A newly published report from think tank the Social Market Foundation has recommended a wider AI guidance remit for DSIT, and identified potential huge efficiencies departments could gain via automation Using artificial intelligence to automate and redirect calls could save the DWP and HMRC m| PublicTechnology
The pandemic illustrated the importance of work to improve a service offering support for society’s most vulnerable, product owner Sharron Wise tells PublicTechnology Credit: 3D Animation Production Company from Pixabay The team working on delivering a new digital service for government’s Budgeti| PublicTechnology
After a digital and data revamp, more than half of claims are entirely self-service, product owner Vicky Coatesworth tells PublicTechnology Credit: Adobe Stock Even by government standards, the Get your State Pension service run by the Department for Work and Pensions is a vast and important one.| PublicTechnology
Newly published transparency documents reveal several agencies will provide funding to support scheme to help transform a ‘core national function’ delivered by the same government body for almost 200 years Government has revealed that a major project to modernise the ways in which citizens fo| PublicTechnology
In a country that has long been renowned as one of the world’s leading digital governments, Tarmo Hanga from Estonia’s Information System Authority tells PublicTechnology about the nation's next steps Credit for above and bottom images: Pixabay / Middle image: Mad Ball/CC BY-SA 2.0 Of| PublicTechnology
Update made to social security legislation to ensure that Universal Credit and Maternity Allowance services are notified after citizens use ‘Tell us Once’ service to inform departments of a death Ministers from the Department for Work and Pensions have tweaked benefits legislation with the in| PublicTechnology
Drive to design end-to-end user journeys continues Credit: GOV.UK/Open Government Licence The government’s latest step-by-step online service addresses the actions people need to take when someone close to them dies. The service, which was launched yesterday, is designed to guide users through| PublicTechnology
In 2024 the Government Communications Service is looking to make greater use of technology, as well as partnering with online influencers and content creators, according to chief executive Simon Baugh The yearly Permanent Secretaries Roundup published by PublicTechnology sister publication Ci| PublicTechnology
Foreign Office-based unit taps Emirati firm to help increase ‘understanding of behavioural and attitudinal characteristics’ Government’s dedicated anti-Isis communications unit has signed a £150,000 data-analytics deal to provide “audience insight”. The Counter-Daesh Communications Cell (CDDC)| PublicTechnology
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Government announced earlier this year that the implementation of the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard will become mandatory for departments and, after some progress, ministers believe that further legislation is unnecessary Departments will soon publicly release “multiple records”| PublicTechnology
Minister reveals that plans are scheduled to be finalised and released publicly in the next few weeks – with some agencies or uses of technology likely to be given ‘necessary exemptions’ The government will soon announce plans to mandate that all central government departments publish details| PublicTechnology
Whitehall Monitor finds that DDaT profession has expanded vastly since 2016, but challenges remain in filling the biggest jobs Credit: Steve Buissinne/Pixabay Government’s digital, data and technology profession has expanded significantly in recent years, but pay constraints hamper departments’| PublicTechnology
In evidence given to MPs, outgoing civil service chief operating officer Alex Chisholm acknowledges that Whitehall pay packets have become a ‘chronic problem’ facing departments, especially in filling tech positions The long-term failure of officials’ pay to keep pace with inflation and the w| PublicTechnology
Permanent secretary says DLUHC has a plan to help address need for expertise, including a dedicated pay framework Credit: Gerd Altmann/Pixabay Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities permanent secretary Jeremy Pocklington has told MPs the ministry is making progress with recruiting| PublicTechnology
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Faced with limited funding and a changing landscape, forces often seek recruits that can deal with the very differing scenarios of violent street crime and cyberattacks, a top officer reveals Police funding does not match the threat posed by cybercrime, a top UK officer has warned. Speakin| PublicTechnology
Expert researchers have published a study drawing on input from hundreds of victims, many of whom chose not to tell police about crimes, or found little benefit in doing so A new academic study has found victims of cybercrime lack faith in the police to handle incidents. Research by the Un| PublicTechnology
Officers across the South Wales and Gwent forces will be equipped with mobile software to identify suspects, missing persons and dead bodies, but campaigners label move ‘an industrial-scale privacy breach’ Police officers across two forces in Wales are set to become the first in the UK to be| PublicTechnology
Assessment of culture and performance, led by former departmental leader Robert Devereux, was commissioned in light of concerns about the quality of the organisation’s information and the efficacy of surveys An independent review of performance and culture at the Office for National Statistic| PublicTechnology
Ex-ODI chief Jeni Tennison tells PublicTechnology how and why she created Connected by Data to help citizens have a say in how their data is used by government and others “The question is how you make decisions about what good looks like for sharing data in that ‘grey area’: who makes the dec| PublicTechnology
After concluding a year that was ‘transformational, challenging and educational’, the ONS is now considering the possibilities for major changes in how it gathers statistics, according to Sir Ian Diamond The yearly Permanent Secretaries Roundup published by PublicTechnology sister publication| PublicTechnology
Organisations are to be equipped with a procurement vehicle providing access to a range of automated tools for analysing imaging and pathology, as well as the services of expert consultants The NHS is planning to establish a near-£200m framework for health-service entities to invest in artifi| PublicTechnology
Health service body responsible for interacting with almost 30 million registered organ donors and 800,000 that regularly give blood is seeking to offer users a comprehensive range of contact options NHS Blood and Transplant is planning to implement a new £40m-plus nationwide customer contact| PublicTechnology
Government seeks volunteers for research Credit: Jernej Furman/CC BY 2.0 The government is conducting research that seeks to find out whether coronavirus infection could be detected by algorithms to examine coughing and speech recordings. Via the NHS Test and Trace programme, volunteers are bein| PublicTechnology
Government’s core technology unit has issued formal advice announcing that the state’s system for citizens to store formal documents is open for business, with departments invited to express their interest The Government Digital Service has issued guidance alerting public bodies that they can| PublicTechnology
Feryal Clark, the minister for artificial intelligence and digital government, has suggested that documents could be opened up to storage in private platforms if vendors adhere to electronic ID standards Following the recent unveiling of the soon-to-launch GOV.UK Wallet, ministers have confir| PublicTechnology
The department has picked suppliers to fulfil contracts providing design, data, testing and product delivery assistance to a range of major projects supporting schools in areas including procurement and construction The Department for Education has signed a quartet of multimillion-pound contr| PublicTechnology
The department’s Standards and Testing Agency has been working on a digital version of the Reception Baseline Assessment since 2018, and has appointed a supplier to support its upcoming launch The Department for Education has signed a potential £20m deal to support the digitisation of the ass| PublicTechnology
The Department has put in place an arrangement with a specialist tech consultancy that will provide expert personnel in disciplines including analysis and management of vulnerabilities, and responding to incidents The Department for Education has bolstered its security with the award of a pot| PublicTechnology
Group representing all councils in the capital launches the London Office of Technology and Innovation Credit: Richard Gray/EMPICS Entertainment London Councils, a group representing all 33 local authorities across the capital has claimed the newly launched London Office of Technology and Innovat| PublicTechnology
The head of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology lifts the lid on a busy year, and looks ahead to much more to come over the course of 2025 In an annual festive-period tradition, PublicTechnology sister publication Civil Service World recently published the latest edition of| PublicTechnology
Tool uses the information of a prisoner’s age and previous behaviour to project how many incidents they will become involved in, supporting categorisation decisions and direction of care and support HM Prison and Probation Service has shed light on the operation of an algorithm used to estima| PublicTechnology
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Digital secretary indicates government will work with campaigning MPs to make amendments to legislation Credit: StockSnap/Pixabay Senior tech executives found culpable in breaches of new online safety laws could face prison terms, digital secretary Michelle Donelan has announced. In recent week| PublicTechnology
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Software enables citizens of the county to provide evidence of various crimes, and will be particularly useful for those affected by ongoing and repeated instances of antisocial behaviour, officers claim Hertfordshire Constabulary has encouraged citizens of the county to use a recently launch| PublicTechnology
New interim leader of statistics agency acknowledges that organisation needs to improve ability of staff to challenge and ‘speak truth to power’, while MPs make colourful criticisms of her predecessor Acting national statistician Emma Rourke has told MPs that the Office for National Statistic| PublicTechnology
System processes data at a nationwide level and provides doctors in hospital transplant centres with a ranked list of recommended recipients for the 15 to 20 organs donated each day The health service’s use of algorithms to support the allocation of organs to patients is saving lives and ensu| PublicTechnology
As work progresses on creating electronic versions of the driving licence, as well as National Insurance and benefits details, representatives have indicated this rollout will be complete in two years All identity and credential documents currently issued across central government will be off| PublicTechnology
The watchdog for online safety has opened a consultation in which the public and industry stakeholders are invited to give their views on measures intended to prevent harmful content spreading Tech companies could face new demands to block illegal content and introduce more restrictive livest| PublicTechnology
The department has signed four engagements with specialist suppliers that will provide technical support across a range of digital services, including funding platforms, data operations, and the UK’s apprenticeships regime The Department for Education has awarded a quartet of major digital an| PublicTechnology
Outer London borough in the north east of the capital is advertising a vacant digital and transformation managerial post, with a remit to set strategy and deliver key tech improvements Redbridge Council is seeking to recruit a director of IT and digital transformation in order to help “ensure| PublicTechnology
Tech department’s former director general for digital technologies and telecoms Emran Mian moves into the hotseat vacated by the departure of Sarah Munby, who has led DSIT since its creation Emran Mian has been appointed as the new permanent secretary at the Department for Science, Innovation| PublicTechnology
Government’s first ever unified mobile app is now open for business across the country. But, as PublicTechnology reports, digital experts are hoping the technology will have lots more to come. A government-wide app – offering access to services and information delivered across Whitehall depar| PublicTechnology
Ongoing backing announced for IoT Secure programme, which works with SMEs and start-up firms to support development of connected technologies and will use money to sharpen focus on key industries The Scottish Government has announced further funding for a programme boosting the adoption o| PublicTechnology
A programme led by the University of Edinburgh is deploying environment sensor technology at schools across the Scottish capital, in an installation leaders claim will represent ‘Europe’s largest’ IoT network A multimillion-pound scheme intends to make schools in Edinburgh “Europe’s largest” Inte| PublicTechnology
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Holyrood’s flagship programme for boosting connectivity across the remote and rural areas of Scotland rolled out broadband to an additional 7,000 homes beyond its target for the 2025 fiscal year The Scottish Government’s Reaching 100% broadband rollout programme has exceeded its targets, desp| PublicTechnology
Department has purchased three licences of automated ‘social media listening’ tool that will offers the ability to search for specified terms and flag up thousands of individuals’ posts each day In a bid to clamp down on benefit fraud, the Department for Work and Pensions has signed a deal fo| PublicTechnology
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Senior officials have revealed that a new unit dedicated to best practice in tech procurement will house two dozen people whose first job will be to develop an updated strategy A new government-wide strategy for sourcing digital platforms will provide “really clear steers to departments on wh| PublicTechnology
A pilot exercise involving 20,000 officials across 12 departments found that, while benefits were fairly consistent across civil service grades, results varied much more widely by profession and use case A major Whitehall trial of Microsoft’s Copilot has found that the artificial intelligence| PublicTechnology
Emily Middleton was brought into government to help shape its new digital centre but, as PublicTechnology finds out, the revamped tech hub hopes to support much broader transformation across Whitehall “The State of digital government review that was published in January… gave a snapshot of th| PublicTechnology
Early work on achieving the milestones set out in the contracts with enterprise resource planning vendor Oracle and systems integrator IBM has been set back by eight months, assessment reveals A multibillion-pound shared services initiative led by the Department for Work and Pensions has expe| PublicTechnology
The Synergy cluster of four of government’s biggest departments, collectively employing almost half of all civil servants, have assessed four joint bids and chosen their preferred software and SI combo Four of government’s biggest departments have picked Oracle and IBM to fulfil shared-servic| PublicTechnology
Synergy cluster seeks input ahead of going to market One of government’s shared-services clusters has signed a £1m-plus consultancy to help shape the “technical vision” for uniting the back-office systems of four of Whitehall’s biggest departments. The Synergy cluster is one of five groupings,| PublicTechnology
Cabinet Office issues projections of impact on implementing software ‘clusters’ The government has predicted that its ongoing shared-services programme will save £1.8bn over the next 15 years. The Shared Services Strategy for Government was published by the Cabinet Office two years and set out| PublicTechnology
The UK's cancer care system is under immense strain. Rising demand, workforce shortages, and fragmented digital infrastructure create bottlenecks that delay diagnosis and treatment, impacting both patient outcomes and clinician workloads. Improving Cancer Pathways: Challenges, Overcoming Barriers| PublicTechnology
Flagship cloud first policy has been revamped with extra focus on evaluating a variety of vendors to help ‘manage market dominance’ Picture credit: Pixoman/Pixabay Government has revamped, expanded and strengthened its 10-year-old Cloud First Policy, including the addition of guidance instruc| PublicTechnology
Contract offers 11% discount under vendor’s Volume Commitment Programme Credit: Kris Tripplaar/SIPA USA/PA Images The Government Digital Service has signed a two-year hosting contract with Amazon Web Services. The deal, which came into effect on 1 July, will be worth £12m to the cloud provider.| PublicTechnology
PublicTechnology can reveal the terms of a public sector-wide MoU, under which more than contracts worth more than £300m have already been awarded Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay The government’s memorandum of understanding with Amazon Web Services – under the terms of which contracts worth m| PublicTechnology
