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Government signs agreement with BioNTech SE to provide up to 10,000 patients with precision cancer immunotherapies by 2030 NHS England’s new Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad aims to improve access to personalised treatments and clinical trials BioNTech SE to set up laboratories and a regional hub in England to support the development of immunotherapies
Ground-breaking
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Mark Venables (left) and Dr Alastair Kirby
Dr Alastair Kirby, Industry and Technology Navigator at Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network (KSS AHSN) reflects on why effective marketing is crucial to the success of new products and how innovators can kick start their marketing activities. Why am I not being noticed?
You’ve
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Barley Laing
By Barley Laing, the UK Managing Director at Melissa
Evolving technology is driving efficiencies in processes and reducing costs across most sectors. The significant impact of this trend is quite apparent in the public sector, where budgets have fallen dramatically, or are being scrutinised. Whatever the reason – continued government borrowing,
Continue reading How new technology is resolving the costly data quality issues afflicting the public sector
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
For many people, the pandemic—and the global response to this once-in-a-lifetime event—was a game-changer. The enforced and rapid move to the cloud meant carefully prepared plans for phased IT migration were thrown out the window.
Instead, the explosion of hybrid office environments left public sector IT workers forced to
Continue reading Greater Observability Helps Manage Hybrid IT Complexity Across the Public Sector
Blackhawk Network finds four priorities local governments should consider when providing funds to people in need
Since 2020 there have been significant increases in the need for ‘alternative payment’ such as voucher schemes and prepaid cards, to deliver financial support to people in need,
Continue reading New cost of living crisis research calls for change to public sector financial support
Andrew Webber, Chief Marketing and Revenue Officer, at Whitespace
New research has revealed that increasing digital collaboration to reduce duplication across government, is seen by public sector organisations as the key to the future of innovation and productivity.
In a survey of over 100 senior leaders and managers, collaboration in the online environment
Continue reading Public sector says collaboration, not duplication, is key to the future of innovation and productivity
An independent review into the response to COVID-19 in Walsall has shown that partnership working was a dominant feature, essential to meet the challenges that were presented to the community during the pandemic.
The review conducted by the Institute for Community Research and Development at the
Continue reading Council publishes independent report into COVID-19 response
Anne Cooper
Well-known digital nurse leader @AnnieCoops looks forward to joining a leading forum for debate on the big issues shaping health tech and the digital health industry
Highland Marketing has welcomed a digital nurse leader to its advisory board of NHS IT professionals and health tech industry experts.
Anne Cooper, known
Continue reading Anne Cooper joins the Highland Marketing advisory board
Danny Wilson, head of children’s residential at Bedspace
By Danny Wilson, head of children’s residential at Bedspace
Before the pandemic, Local Authorities in England were already under significant pressure, as budget cuts made the increasing number of children being put into care difficult to manage. Following nearly two years of Covid restrictions and
Continue reading Increasing children in care – the causes, the problems, and the solution
Sajid Javid – Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Health and social care secretary Sajid Javid has announced a new target to complete the digitisation of the acute sector. The Highland Marketing advisory board discussed the approach being developed by NHS England’s transformation directorate, and the challenges to making it work.
Continue reading Trusts to HIMSS5 by December 2023: will they make it this time?
Trueman Change are delighted to announce the launch of their new change methodology, derived from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic – The Trueman Change Way. This is a people-first approach, created from the lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic and implemented into change accelerator programmes to ensure transformation can continue to happen faster and
Continue reading ACCELERATING TRANSFORMATION IN PUBLIC SECTOR THROUGH EMPOWERING YOUR PEOPLE AND THE MAGIC OF PURPOSE AND CLARITY
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
The pace of digital transformation across the public sector has accelerated significantly in recent years, and with Covid-19 prompting a near-overnight shift to online services, the process has come a long way already. Services once requiring pages of paperwork now are fully digitised—renewing your passport or driver’s license
Continue reading Can ‘One Login for Government’ Deliver Digital Success for the U.K. Public Sector?
The UK’s globally unique deployment of a medical imaging sharing system called the Sectra Image Exchange Portal has expanded to a record reach, easing the flow of important patient information beyond hospitals and supporting the pandemic response.
A UK-wide digital medical imaging sharing system, the largest of its kind anywhere in the
Continue reading UK-wide medical imaging sharing system expands beyond hospitals to 500 institutions
The MAST (Joint European Torus and Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak) experimental plasma machine at CCFE
Hundreds of scientists and engineers working on the UK’s race to harness fusion energy are being protected from COVID-19 contamination by new super-tough anti-microbial coating Touchpoint Shield.
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has commissioned bio-hazard cleaning and
Continue reading Fusion boffins get new shield against COVID contamination
By Charles Damerell, Senior Director UKI at SolarWinds
In responding to the demand for better digital capabilities, defence organisations are among many across the public sector to have seen significant recent changes in their technology strategies and investment choices.
This has delivered a wide range of benefits, such as enabling the sector to cope with
Continue reading Understanding the Future of IT in Defence
Gerard Toplass
DEALING with the pandemic has brought the relationship between the construction and healthcare industries into sharp focus, sparking new and innovative ways of working – and the future is looking bright. That was the key message from national framework provider Pagabo’s latest ‘Building Blocks’ podcast, hosted by executive chairman Gerard Toplass.
Continue reading CONSTRUCTION AND HEALTHCARE: HOW BUILDING ON RELATIONSHIPS IS KEY
TSSA today responded to Nicola Sturgeon’s announcement on the surge in Omicron cases in Scotland by urging Boris Johnson to reintroduce the furlough scheme.
The surge in Omicron cases has caused 60 ScotRail services to be cancelled today, and many staff at an A&E unit in Lanarkshire are isolating. Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director for
Continue reading TSSA response to Nicola Sturgeon’s Omicron announcement
Tim Pitts
By Tim Pitts, Senior Partner at Agilisys
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past 20 months has turned public sector organisations on their heads. Whilst some site that there has been a seismic shift in their digital thinking, others argue that the changes brought on by the pandemic were
Continue reading Public sector technology predictions for 2022 and beyond
Digitising hospitals was the focus of NHS IT policy for twenty years. The job is still unfinished: so what are the options for trusts – and the integrated care systems that are planned to take over health tech strategy and funding next April? The Highland Marketing advisory board asked three leading chief information officers for
Continue reading The EPR debate
Susan Venables, founder and client services director at Highland Marketing
The NHS has already made a commitment to become the first net zero health and care system in the world. It’s time for digital health vendors to think about their role – and to be ready to talk about how they are tackling
Continue reading Cop26 shows it’s time for health tech to act on climate change
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