east midlands in news
Nottingham to plant WiMax Forest
News Other organisations involved in the rollout include East Midlands New Technology Initiative Network and Accelerate Nottingham, part of the Greater Nottingham Partnership. Several other UK towns including... [24 Sep 2008]
Third of UK homes still without web access
News While the North East has the fewest internet-enabled households (54 per cent), followed by the North West (56 per cent), and the East Midlands and West Midlands (both... [27 Aug 2008]
NHS head defends major IT delays
News Six years into the national NHS IT programme (NPfIT) the Lorenzo care records systems have still not gone live anywhere in the country, leaving health trusts in the North, Midlands and the East to rely... [18 Jun 2008]
Paper-free train tickets on track
News South West Trains will start running a smart ticketing system from February next year, followed by CrossCountry trains and London Midland, Intercity and East Midlands Trains in 2010. Travellers will be... [04 Jun 2008]
Broadband pace lagging in the countryside
News Fastest after London are: the North East (3.6Mbps), the North West (3.4Mbps) and the East Midlands (3.3Mbps) - suggesting there is a rural vs urban split based on ADSL speed. A broadband... [04 Jun 2008]
Health care records service delayed
News The National Audit Office has published a report on the progress of the Care Records Service that underpins the Connecting for Health programme, which found the software development on the Lorenzo database and associated applications... [16 May 2008]
Card fraud up by a quarter to £535m
News The biggest growth was in the East Midlands with an increase of 52 per cent over the year. In terms of UK regions, the South East tops the league with £178m lost on plastic card fraud on... [12 Mar 2008]
Eurostar links up with UK train operators
News The first seven UK rail operators to be linked are Chiltern Railways, East Midlands Trains, First Capital Connect, Hull Trains, London Midland, National Express East Coast and Virgin... [04 Jan 2008]
Brits clocking up £25bn in unpaid overtime
News The only regions where numbers fell were the East Midlands, where 57,000 fewer staff did free hard graft, and the North West and Merseyside, where numbers dropped by 41,000. The regions where the most... [04 Jan 2008]
Businesses failing to safeguard sensitive data
News Nine disks were recovered that had belonged to a furniture warehousing company based in the East Midlands. Organisations charged with safeguarding sensitive data are not doing enough to ensure that... [25 Sep 2007]
Revealed: UK's IT job hotspots
News The East Midlands has seven per cent of the UK population but is creating three per cent of new IT positions. New IT jobs by region, according to ReThink Recruitment& London - 38.6 per cent& South... [14 Aug 2007]
DoH in £20m CSC outsourcing extension
News CSC has the £1bn contract for the North West and Midlands region and last year took over £2bn-worth of contracts for the East and North East regions after Accenture pulled out. The UK's... [30 Mar 2007]
NHS IT switchover completed
News The NHS said that on the same day contracts were signed between CSC and the Department of Health for the delivery of "new and improved" IT services for the NHS in the East and North East, together with... [11 Jan 2007]
Accenture pulls out of £12.4bn NHS IT project
News Accenture was awarded the two contracts to be the local service provider (LSP) for the Connecting for Health (CfH) programme in the East and North East regions back in 2003 but will now hand over the... [28 Sep 2006]
2.6 million home offices in the UK
News The East Midlands, North East, Northern Ireland and Wales fall well below the UK average. Homeworking is gaining momentum - workers from households in the East, South... [29 Aug 2006]
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