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Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
2021 has been another year of challenges for us all, and for the IT sector, the changes needed, time invested, and adjustments made to public sector systems and processes are set to shape the future for good. While private sector
Continue reading Weathering the Storm: Why IT Professionals Are Unsung Public Sector Heroes
Leading shared care record and population health management provider to become ‘quality partner’ and early adopter for assessment against the core information standard
Move demonstrates Orion Health’s commitment to open systems and standards that will guide the development of shared care records in England
Orion Health is supporting the
Continue reading Orion Health supports Professional Record Standards Body partnership scheme
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
As organisations throughout the public sector have turned to remote working solutions over the past year and a half during the global pandemic, technology has solved countless problems—but it’s created challenges, too. The tried and tested “business as usual” processes were disrupted, and organisations were forced to rely
Continue reading Public Sector IT: How Monitoring Could Be The Answer
Ireland’s leading medical virology laboratory works with Medical Supply Company (MSC), CliniSys, and the Health Service Executive (HSE) to deploy the modern laboratory information system at Backweston Laboratory Campus
The move will future-proof capacity at the dedicated SARS-CoV-2 RNA testing facility and is already improving turnaround times
Ireland’s National Virus Reference
Continue reading National Virus Reference Laboratory (NVRL) moves Covid-19 testing onto WinPath Enterprise
SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2021: Building a Secure Future examines how technology professionals perceive the evolving state of risk in today’s business environment following internal impact of COVID-19 IT policies and exposure to external breaches
SolarWinds introduces Secure by Design program as a guide for industry-wide approach to help prevent
Continue reading Annual SolarWinds Study Reveals Opportunities for Business and IT Collaboration in Managing Enterprise Risk Driven by Internal and External Security Threats
UK Schools were closed to all but key worker children on 5 January 2021 in response to COVID-19 – and re-opened on 8 March 2021. As schools re-open, and teachers adjust to their post-covid teaching jobs, Reuters reveals that the British government has pledged a £700m support package to help primary and secondary schoolchildren to
Continue reading Pandemic: How Teachers Can Help Pupils to Catch Up
With a passion to make Healthcare more convenient, effective, and accessible to all Fungai Ndemera set off to deliver this vision by Founding CheckUp Health. CheckUp Health is a brand-new Digital Healthcare provider offering private GP video and audio appointments to all UK residents from anywhere in the World – along with an array of
Continue reading Telehealth and remote health monitoring: The way forward
Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has been abruptly replaced by Sajid Javid. The Highland Marketing advisory board consider the huge agenda he is now facing, and what it could – and should – mean for health tech.
Matt Hancock’s downfall as health and social care secretary was swift. Last week, barely 12-hours
Continue reading It’s going to be quite a handover…
By Charles Knight, Managing Director of Public Services at Totalmobile
More than a year since the UK’s first national lockdown and there is finally a light at the end of the tunnel, with a somewhat clearer roadmap out of lockdown. Understandably, throughout this collective experience, a lot of attention has been focused on the workers
Continue reading The public sector post pandemic: how the mobile workforce has evolved
CICV Forum – Ivan McKee
The Construction Industry Coronavirus (CICV) Forum has pledged its ongoing commitment to the Scottish Construction Leadership Forum (CLF) and has warmly welcomed its new Chair, Scottish Government Minister Ivan McKee.
The unique collaboration of trade associations, professional bodies, companies and individuals is now a key contributor to the
Continue reading CICV Forum welcomes new Construction Leadership Forum Chair and pledges to continue on path of collaboration and co-operation
With many schools, teaching unions and teachers expressing concerns about how safe the classroom is – despite reassurance from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), an article by Yvonne Williams in the Times Educational Supplement (TES), asks how many teachers have decided to quit their profession.
Yvonne Williams is head of English
Continue reading Managing Teacher Recruitment, Training and Retention
Whizz Education, provider of the leading virtual tutor Maths-Whizz, has quantified the lockdown learning loss in maths experienced by 5–13-year-olds in the UK. Whizz Education’s research shows that 46% of the 1,721 children assessed experienced a learning loss, exhibiting an average of knowledge decline of eight months during the first lockdown.
Dr Junaid Mubeen, Director
Continue reading Whizz Education Quantifies Maths Lockdown Learning Loss
First acts of new Government must be to establish a Wales-wide Covid inquiry – Plaid Cymru Leader Adam Price MS
Responding to Boris Johnson’s announcement that a UK wide Covid inquiry will take place in Spring 2022, Plaid Cymru Leader Adam Price MS said,
“One of the first acts of this Labour Welsh Government should
Continue reading First acts of new Government must be to establish a Wales-wide Covid inquiry – Plaid Cymru Leader Adam Price MS
Fleur Sexton
“Giving the next generation of our workforce an insider view of how our world works is absolute gold”
With the pandemic sabotaging so many key experiences that should be shaping young people’s lives and aspirations, work experience is one area where businesses can step up their game and provide invaluable
Continue reading Leading Coventry businesswoman urges other businesses to ‘think outside the box’ and provide remote work experience for school pupils during lockdown
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
As our cities continue to grow in population density, the need for positive environmental action on a domestic and global scale grows more urgent. However, the sheer complexity of contemporary urban living means city planners need more actionable insight into the factors affecting issues such as air quality
Continue reading How a Business IT Mindset Can Help Smart Cities Maintain Cleaner Air
Essex based business, keep2m.co.uk, have been busy supplying sneeze screens, information sticker packs and mobile temperature measuring equipment to authorities across the UK with a syndication of London boroughs recently buying over 1500 sneeze guards for the election and then increasing their order for use by staff in their offices too.
Neil Levett, Director of
Continue reading Covid Safe Elections: Essex firm helping Local Authorities tick the right box
South Lanarkshire Council confirms ‘Cash Out’ delivers immediate and wider access to crucial funds vs vouchers
Increasing numbers of local authorities are utilising the instant cash solutions from PayPoint to financially help families quickly, as the effects of lockdown bring further suffering. Government free school meals and Winter Hardship Fund vouchers provided to
Continue reading 90 local authorities and housing organisations turn to PayPoint for accessible financial support for struggling families
The services supplied by the UK’s public sector, particularly those provided by the world-renowned NHS, are considered by many to be the jewel in our crown. Never before has this commitment to service excellence been more evidenced than by the way our public servants have responded to the challenges presented by the global pandemic and
Continue reading GFT: Intelligently exploiting the cloud to power the UK’s public sector, the jewel in our crown
The UK’s leading, independent, membership body for health and social care managers says politicians and policy makers must level with the public as one in five poll respondents say more than 15% of staff are now off sick or isolating
The Institute of Healthcare Management has called for honest and open communication about
Continue reading The Institute of Healthcare Management calls for openness and honesty about NHS capacity as sickness absence soars
By Evan Wienburg, CEO of Truespeed
Normally at this time of year, Oxford Dictionaries comes up with a word of the year. But, in light of the extraordinary and seismic events we’ve seen in 2020, the Oxford team produced instead a whole list in their “Words of an unprecedented year” report. Along with words encompassing
Continue reading Moonshot: Giving the gift of gigabit broadband by 2025
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