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RSS public sectorHealth trust abandons NHS care record upgrade
News The Trust said it terminated the implementation because it had lost confidence in the delivery of the system following Fujitsu's exit as the provider delivering the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the south of England.silicon.com Public Sector [22 Jul 2008]
Is the UK an open source laggard?
News If you are a CIO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be, then drop us a line at editorial@silicon.com [21 Jul 2008]
PAYE system not ready for rollout
News HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) postponed the PAYE system because of uncertainty over whether it was ready to oversee the collection of taxes from about 31 million people.silicon.com Public Sector Get the latest public sector news straight to your inbox. [21 Jul 2008]
Rapid Response Visa and Getronics Deliver Efficiency With CARE
White Paper Visa EU deployed Getronics for the project as its proven track record in the development of solutions for the financial services sector. In order to be competitive themselves, the financial institutions must be able to provide fast, effortless... [18 Jul 2008]
Courts to save millions with streamlined tech
News The £7.2m secure web-based application pulls information together from police, CPS and court computer systems to chart defendants' progress.silicon.com Public Sector Get the latest public sector news straight to your inbox. [17 Jul 2008]
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment The results are only too clear to see in the failure of so many of the UK's largest and most oversold public-sector IT projects. With the industry notoriously unkind to the over-40s, Simon Moores is thinking of following his lead. [17 Jul 2008]
Soham report IT systems still not in place
News In his review of criminality information Sir Ian Magee said: "All of these taken together suggest that some of the recommendations in the Bichard report most likely to have an impact on public protection have yet to be fully delivered.silicon.com... [17 Jul 2008]
Exeter Uni gives £5.5m network upgrade the green light
News The test was outsourced to Spirent Communications and was used to determine whether the preferred supplier hardware was fit to deliver 200 channels of IPTV and 1Gbps networking to the desktop across the university's campus.silicon.com Public Sector [17 Jul 2008]
'Greedy' appliances to power one million homes
News Efficiency improvements to the greediest home appliances - including power supplies for laptops, mobile phones and printers - can save enough energy to power 1.5 million homes, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs... [14 Jul 2008]
Gov't to ramp up IT outsourcing?
News Secretary of State for Business John Hutton promised a "long-term commitment to open up public service markets" that will make it easier for the private sector to win IT contracts. The review found that outsourced public services' contribution to... [11 Jul 2008]
Hospitals roll out RFID
News More than 50 hospitals are using smart wireless or barcoded wristbands and tags to give them an instant snapshot of the location of medicines, patients and sterile equipment.silicon.com Public Sector Get the latest public sector news straight to... [09 Jul 2008]
Best Practices in Messaging Security: Managing email security policy and regulatory compliance requirements
White Paper Special attention is paid to the special concerns in financial services, health care and public sector groups, but companies across all industries and government agencies at the federal, state and local levels are under pressure to respond to new... [09 Jul 2008]
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Using Project 2007 Effectively in the Public Sector (Level 100)
White Paper This webcast shows how to create an annual plan, policy development plan, and other public sector specific plans efficiently. Managing the project workload with limited resources is no easy task, but doing that while managing stakeholders from... [08 Jul 2008]
Knowledge Management Portal Delivers High Quality Healthcare Information
White Paper NHS 24 wanted to provide innovative means of delivering progressive, joined-up public sector healthcare and create a flexible and adaptive portal based on a service infrastructure. NHS 24 deployed BEA AquaLogic User Interaction to create a... [08 Jul 2008]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News The cost of implementing the revamped FCO Telecommunications Network (FTN) has ballooned from £180m to £240m, while the Future Firecrest project to upgrade its desktop systems worldwide is expected to cost £26m more than the £332m originally... [07 Jul 2008]
