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MARSTON HOLDINGS PARTNERS WITH MICHELIN CONNECTED FLEET TO IMPROVE FLEET OPERATIONS AND BECOME MORE SUSTAINABLE

MICHELIN Connected Fleet helps Marston Holdings to unlock 13.4% fuel efficiency improvements and cut engine idling by 14% Data from the on-board telematics system helps company maximise efficiency savings across its 1,400-strong car, van & truck fleet

Marston Holdings is reaping the benefits of MICHELIN Connected Fleet’s smart data and personalised performance analysis, pointing

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In The Loop: New toolkit and funding available to local authorities to boost recycling on-the-go

Environmental charity Hubbub has published its ‘In The Loop’ toolkit, an in-depth guide for local authorities on how to roll out successful recycling on-the-go campaigns and thereby increase recycling rates and reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill or incineration.

The toolkit, funded by environmental compliance scheme Ecosurety, brings together key learnings from #InTheLoop,

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Step up for the NHS digital funding hokey-cokey

Last year’s Budget set aside £2.1 billion for NHS IT, and the autumn statement confirmed the capital is still there, but it looks like most of the money is headed for Frontline Digitisation. The Highland Marketing advisory board considers how this pattern of putting money into health tech, taking it out again, shaking up the

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Legacy systems and security will continue to dominate the agenda for public sector IT professionals

Sascha Giese

By Sascha Giese, SolarWinds Head Geek™

When protecting computer systems and networks, the “biggest cyber risk is complacency, not hackers.” That’s according to John Edwards, the UK’s Information Commissioner who warned that companies are leaving themselves open to cyberattacks by ignoring crucial measures such as updating software and training staff.

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Crisis moves apps & data to the cloud to streamline the operation of its annual Christmas campaign to support the homeless

IGEL, provider of the managed endpoint operating system for secure access to any digital workspace, recently announced that it is a major technology partner supporting the annual Crisis for Christmas campaign to help the homeless – the 12th year it has helped the charity.

Since 1967, Crisis has supported the most disadvantaged in society at

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Managing digital expectations as pressure mounts for public sector transformation

By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds

With citizens looking for convenience wherever they can—from responsive mobile apps to joined-up services—public sector organisations are under increasing pressure to develop and deliver the IT solutions needed to facilitate such services.

It was something laid out in June when the U.K. Government published its 2022 – 2025

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Removing departmental siloes is vital for Governments under fire from state-sponsored salvos

By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds

When it comes to IT, much is made of the differences between public and private sector projects. People are quick to point out the world’s most successful go-getting companies use technology to gain a competitive advantage, while the public sector is motivated by the delivery of services to

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The importance of trust in delivering public services

Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds

By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds

Trust underpins the foundations of modern and legitimate democracies. From civil safety and national security to upholding the rule of law, trust is vital if we’re to function as a society.

Get it right, and public trust can

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Camden trials care tech device to help residents return home from hospital sooner  

Oysta Pearl+ allows patients to return home an average of three days faster

Camden Council, in partnership with Oysta, has successfully piloted a care tech device to allow residents to return from hospital sooner and be fully supported to recover at home.

So far, the Oysta care device has supported over 200 residents

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Royal Navy employee empowerment app hailed as transformation best practice

The challenge:

The Royal Navy wanted to improve retention by understanding more about the lived experience of personnel and addressing common pain-points. The 40,000-strong staff includes sailors, engineers, medical staff, shore-based civil servants, trainers, and auxiliary service personnel. By the nature of their roles, the majority of personnel are not desk-based and prefer to use

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Restore Records Management earns £5.8m contract with Department for Work and Pensions

Nigel Dews

Restore Records Management has been awarded a £5.857m contract by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to transfer approximately 375,000 boxes of records into off-site storage and provide retrieval services.

The three-year contract, worth c£1.9m a year, will see records moved away from DWP’S on-site location at Heywood Stores, near

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LINK Mobility accepted on to the UK Government’s G-Cloud Framework

Europe’s leader in mobile messaging, LINK Mobility, has been accepted on to the UK Government’s G-Cloud 13 Framework of approved supplier services.

Under the agreement, all government bodies from local and central government, through NHS, social housing, to policy and emergency services, will be able to use the G-Cloud’s Digital Marketplace to directly buy LINK

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Mitigating supply chain attacks: protecting the software development cycle

Eilon Elhadad

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued practical steps to help tackle the significant increase in the number of cyberattacks resulting from supply chain vulnerabilities. To support this initiative, companies should minimise the complexity of the process, choose as few security vendors as possible, and build adoption programs, explains Eilon

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Exterro Bolsters Market Leading Privacy Portfolio with Launch of Exterro Smart Data Inventory Solution

New Advanced Data Inventory Solution to Support Privacy Teams with GDPR, CCPA, LGPD and Other Global Privacy Regulations

Exterro, Inc., the industry’s first provider of Legal GRC software, which unifies e-discovery, digital forensics and data privacy to drive successful, defensible outcomes for in-house legal, IT teams, privacy and

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Healthcare Leaders and Innovators Honoured at Imprivata HealthCon Annual Awards

Ingenuity and collaboration result in enthusiastic adoption of Imprivata technology at Health Organisations across the UK

Imprivata®, the digital identity company for mission- and life-critical industries, has honoured the achievements of customers from across the UK at its annual HealthCon virtual user group conference, held on 3 November.

For each of the five Awards,

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Greater Observability Helps Manage Hybrid IT Complexity Across 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

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New cost of living crisis research calls for change to public sector financial support

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,

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SMS launches new EV chargepoint infrastructure solution to get Britain moving

The energy infrastructure expert aims to bring greater flexibility of choice to organisations entering the EV charging market through its advocacy of the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP)

Fully-funded and part-funded service options will help

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Waterless tech breakthrough – the eco-solution to cutting CO2, and halving urinal running costs in the public sector

Public sector bodies could save many hundreds of thousands of litres of water, at the same time as slashing CO2 footprints, and saving thousands of pounds each year, simply by switching to waterless urinals.

The findings have been released by Smarti Environmental following one of the longest droughts in living memory, increasing concerns over water

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Orion Health celebrates landmark first of achieving conformance against PRSB Core Information Standard for shared care records

People will benefit from better joined up care as the PRSB standard allows Orion Health and its early adopter sites to share information for care when and where it is needed

Orion Health has been awarded the Professional Record Standards Body Quality Mark for conformance with the Core Information Standard – the

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