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Dr Paul Deffley
Alcidion has announced the addition of three new appointments to their UK-based team, with one internal promotion and two external recruits. Dr Paul Deffley has been announced as the UK Managing Director, with Tracy McClelland and Darren Ransley joining as global Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) and Chief Revenue Officer (UK),
Continue reading Alcidion grows top talent in the UK, with new MD, CCIO and CRO appointments
Managing the complexities of council assets and the diverse impact they have on local communities is no mean feat, particularly when funding from central government is only heading in one direction: downwards!
With budget cuts, rising community expectations, environmental responsibilities and evolving legislation – all on top of managing physical assets – it is
Continue reading Delivering Under Pressure: How councils can adapt to shrinking budgets, deteriorating assets and net zero expectations
By Gary Haynes, MD of Voicescape, the UK’s leading provider of resident engagement solutions for housing associations and local authorities
Gary Haynes
We now know that 60% of the 300,000 affordable homes to be delivered in the £39bn housing programme pledged in last month’s Spending Review will be earmarked for social rent.
It marks
Continue reading Digital transformation will be key to embracing the social housing revolution promised by Spending Review
Joseph Rooke, Director Risk Insights (Insikt Group) at Recorded Future
High-profile cyber-attacks have shaken the private sector in recent months, with their devastating consequences dominating headlines. But while commercial businesses have been in the spotlight, organisations across the public sector are now asking a critical question: could we be next?
Joseph Rooke
Unfortunately, and
Continue reading How the public sector can protect itself against cyber threats
A World War naval base and a centuries old Swedish ship have both been named as Scotland’s newest Historic Marine Protected Areas.
The Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy Gillian Martin confirmed the designation of the two sites off the coasts of Orkney and Shetland to recognise the national importance of the
Continue reading Protecting Scapa Flow and the Queen of Sweden
By Kagan Seymenoglu, Founder and CEO of Longevita
Kagan Seymenoglu
Since the early 2000s, the global medical tourism industry has grown at a remarkable pace. Once accessed by the wealthy seeking luxury treatments abroad, it is now a mainstream option for many UK citizens – particularly in the field of elective cosmetic procedures such
Continue reading A Call for Action on Unregulated Medical Tourism: Protecting UK Patients and the NHS
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
· Former US State Department and military veteran, Richard Donnellan joins mission-critical technology company, Quantum Trilogy in a crucial public sector and private finance relations function
· Appointment comes following decades of business success across energy, finance and defense sectors
Quantum Trilogy, a
Continue reading CORPORATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR VETERAN, RICHARD DONNELLAN NAMED AS QUANTUM TRILOGY’S NEW CHIEF FUNDING OFFICER
Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) states ‘schools and colleges should consider carrying out an annual review of their approach to online safety’. To help support schools, edtech charity, LGfL-The National Grid for Learning has developed a free, comprehensive yet easy to use Online Safety Audit, recently updated (Feb 2025) to reflect changes to
Continue reading Calling all DSLs – Have you completed your annual online safety review?
By Mubina Asaria, Safeguarding Consultant at ed-tech charity LGfL-The National Grid for Learning.
Mubina Asaria
Sexual extortion – often referred to in the media as sextortion – is a rapidly growing form of abuse where perpetrators use intimate images or videos of their victims to threaten, blackmail or manipulate them, often demanding money, further
Continue reading ‘Sextortion’: How schools can help safeguard young people from sexual extortion online
Aiden Van Sertima – Global Sales Director, Integritas Property Group
Aiden Van Sertima
The UK housing market is undergoing a significant transformation, driven not just by economic pressures and shifting work patterns, but also by major demographic changes. Increasingly, the spotlight is shifting to the growing demand for high-quality rental homes in city centres
Continue reading The Rising Demand for High-Quality Rental Properties: How Demographic Shifts and Smart Design are Reshaping the Property Sector
By Dr Ramoo, Medical Director, Bramacare
The UK is witnessing a sharp and largely unchecked rise in the use of weight loss injections such as Ozempic and Wegovy. While these drugs have proven clinical value when prescribed appropriately, their growing availability online, often without medical oversight, is creating a new and urgent public health
Continue reading Why We Need Stronger Regulation For Online Weight Loss Drug Access
The government’s big plan for the 10 Year Health Plan for the NHS laid out a big role for delivery. However, the Highland Marketing advisory board felt the missing implementation plan will have some big issues to address, from addressing the state of NHS IT today, to finding the time and money to deliver
Continue reading Great plan: now we need to get real about digital delivery
By David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks
The most critical means of maintaining service continuity is to protect an organisation’s backups first before anything else. Any failure to recognise that cyber-criminals comprehend see backups as any large, medium or small companies’ Achilles Heel, could lead to a significant amount of downtime and lost,
Continue reading When Air-Gaps Need WAN Acceleration
By Julian Panter, Business and Project Director, Matrix Workforce Management Solutions
Julian Panter
At Matrix, we work with councils up and down the country and the warning from Solace about Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) putting good officers at risk of exit rings very true. While I haven’t seen every council restructuring their senior teams,
Continue reading Avoiding a Talent Crisis During LGR: How Councils Can Retain Their Best People Through Uncertainty
Liverpool’s flagship £1bn Knowledge Quarter development is set to enter a new phase – following the completion of the demolition of a key landmark.
Removal of the former Smithdown Lane Police Station at the Paddington Village South scheme has now completed, paving the way for new development opportunities under a masterplan being co-ordinated by Liverpool City Council
Continue reading Key Liverpool landmark demolished as innovation scheme enters new phase
New Anglia University (NAU) has announced a significant expansion to its UK Clinical Rotation Network by partnering with 10 additional NHS hospitals. This initiative provides NAU medical students with enhanced opportunities for real-world clinical training across a broad range of NHS facilities in London, Shropshire, and the West Midlands.
The Newly Partnered NHS Hospitals
Continue reading New Anglia University Expands Clinical Rotation Network Through Ten New NHS Partnerships
By Claire Foreman, Director, Greater Manchester Institute of Technology
Claire Foreman
When the Greater Manchester Institute of Technology (GMIoT) prepared to welcome its first cohort of students in September 2023, one critical question framed our thinking: what is truly distinctive about being an Institute of Technology (IoT) student?
Across the UK, Institutes of Technology
Continue reading Delivering a Distinctive, Employer-Led Student Experience at Greater Manchester Institute of Technology
Research by leading food and facilities management services provider, Sodexo, has sought to address growing concerns regarding the Lived Experience of members of the Armed Forces based in the UK. The report, titled ‘The Future Lived Experience: Supporting the UK’s Armed Forces in the 2030s’, is the latest step in Sodexo’s ongoing research and
Continue reading New paper reveals how the lives of defence personnel in the UK can be improved into the 2030s according to a group of Serving Personnel, veterans, academics and industry partners convened by Sodexo
Where healthcare environments are increasingly complex and diverse, operational effectiveness is not just a goal; it is a necessity. From acute primary care to major trauma services, the daily functioning of thousands of clinical and microbiological assets underpins patient care and safety. Yet, a challenge remains: performance data for these critical assets is often
Continue reading Delivering efficiency and consistency in critical hospital assets
AI’s increasing presence poses a real danger of making an already sizable digital literacy divide worse. Jon Rimmer, CXO at Mercator Digital, says governments and organisations have a responsibility to bridge this gap, explaining both why and how.
Jon Rimmer
New technology is designed – or at least is meant to be designed –
Continue reading If AI is widening the digital divide, what can be done to stop it?
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