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Data must be analysed & communicated accurately a.s.a.p. |
Information & its successful exploitation underpin & enable all aspects of Defence business, helping the MoD to effectively deliver business transformation & operational advantage. The establishment of a new Digital & Information Technology (D&IT) function, led by the MOD's Chief Information Officer, will work across all functions in the department to act as a central enabler to change for both the business and for frontline operations. The establishment of the D&IT function is intended to: 'create transformative Digital and Information capability that enables sustainable military and business advantage, that is secure, integrated, easy to use and delivered at scale and pace to the front line' To realise this ambition, the function is based around 3 core principles:
Through the D&IT function, the MOD expects to deliver benefit in 5 strategic priority areas:
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techUK: MOD Digital & Information Technology Functional Strategy You can read the full strategy online here Dstl: Invisible Battlespace: Demonstration Exhibition £30m boost to fast-track battlefield apps Future capabilities & role of Armed Services? The 1990’s ‘Peace Dividend’ is no more |
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Timely counselling helps |
Football clubs across Scotland will be among the first to receive a new mental health & suicide prevention training resource for their players and staff. Funded by the Scottish Government and created by NHS National Education for Scotland and NHS Health Scotland, the online resource will be shared with all 42 professional football clubs, along with 300 mental health first aiders employed by around 80 football organisations throughout the country. It will also be shared across all junior, youth, women’s, amateur and para-football leagues and clubs, reaching around 190,000 players. The training, which is part of the Scottish Government’s Suicide Prevention Action Plan, will also be distributed to all local authorities and will be included in NHS health board workforce development planning from June 2019. The importance of workforce Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Training across a range of settings is emphasised in both our Mental Health Strategy 2017-2027 and our Suicide Prevention Action Plan. Alongside the online resource, NHS Health Scotland and NHS Education Scotland will be publishing a new Knowledge and Skills Framework and Workforce Development Plan for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention. These will be applicable across both NHS Scotland and wider public services. |
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ScotGov: Suicide prevention training launched NHS Health Scotland: New mental health & suicide prevention resources launched Ask, tell, save a life: every life matters animation Ask, tell, have a healthy conversation animation Ask, tell, look after your mental health Mental health pilot project extended Audit Scotland announces support for the Scottish Association for Mental Health Supporting young people in custody Working together to prevent suicide Comment on new suicide prevention action plan Suicide figures show narrowing of inequality gap It also impacts on family members Difficult to know ‘where to start’ |
Telecare is a key element of a future cost efficient healthcare system |
NHS doctors & nurses are using Skype to help older people get faster care, reduce avoidable ambulance call-outs and help people stay out of hospital. The on-call Skype NHS team takes around 8,000 calls a year from wardens working in sheltered accommodation, care home staff & community teams looking for expert support for their residents. Previously, they would have had to call an ambulance, but in the last two years they have prevented 3,000 avoidable visits to A&E and freed up 2,000 GP appointments by solving problems via Skype, meaning elderly people get the right support in their own home, avoiding the disruption – and in some cases distress – of an emergency hospital trip. The scheme in Tameside, in Greater Manchester, is part of a programme of integrated services being rolled-out across the country as part of the NHS Long Term Plan, with smart use of technology enabling quicker, more personal care delivered as efficiently as possible. Quicker care has made the service more effective and efficient, freeing up £1.3m and hundreds of hours of NHS staff time, to care for patients with urgent needs. |
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NHS England: ‘NHS Skype doctors & nurses’ prevent thousands of avoidable hospital trips Innovation Agency: Start small and develop robust ICT solutions that really deliver benefits Welcome - Tameside and Glossop Care Together |
Like ‘Bind Weed’ this issue keeps coming back and only a ‘Root & Branch’ approach will address it |
Cllr Ian Hudspeth, Chairman of the LGA's Community Wellbeing Board, responds to the Panorama ‘Crisis in Care’ programme. “This powerful and emotive programme shines an important light on an adult social care system which is at breaking point. Years of significant underfunding of councils, coupled with rising demand and costs, mean adult social care services face a £3.6 billion funding gap by 2025 just to maintain existing levels of provision. ……………… “Work to find a long-term funding solution for adult social care has been kicked into the long grass by successive governments for the past two decades. It is absolutely vital the Government uses its social care green paper and forthcoming Spending Review to work on a cross party basis to address the immediate funding crisis and set out how it plans to ensure that there is a sustainable, long-term funding solution that can deliver the prevention, care and support that people need. This process must start now.” |
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LGA responds to Panorama 'Crisis in Care' programme Panorama, Crisis in Care - Part 1: Who Cares? - BBC One NHS Confed: Powerful Panorama investigation makes case for action on social care LGA responds to IFS report on council funding IFS: England’s council funding system is unsustainable – and big choices loom The requests will increase as the population ages We all know ‘joined-up care’ must happen to ‘save’ the NHS! Another budget and still no financial solution! Another area where Local Government needs more funding! The intelligent merging of human & technical healthcare |
Editor’s choice of other Health, Social care & Homelessness related items of note: |
NHS Digital: NHS WiFi now available to millions of patients ScotGov: Hospital ban on sale of high-energy drinks to under-16s STFC: Scientists discover new compound that kills antibiotic-resistant superbugs IPPR: Make social care free and save NHS £4.5bn a year, says think tank Reform: The Future of Eye Care - Building on NHS Reform Success |
SME Supplier Locator update... | ||
UK Government and public sector spend with SME’s is continually on the increase and by 2020, it is the stated intent of Cabinet Office that £1 of every £3 spent on government contracts goes to SME’s. Against this ambitious backdrop, the WiredGov Supplier Locator service has been developed specifically to embrace the SME Agenda and provide the ideal platform for SME’s to promote their services, solutions, accreditation and success stories directly to our ever increasing audience across all government and public sector verticals and Tier 1 suppliers. Recent arrivals to the SME Supplier Locator service include:
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Current system meeting needs of Country & individuals? |
Further & higher education must work better for students, universities & taxpayers, the PM said following the publication of an independent review into post-18 education. The PM ordered the review specifically to ensure young people have more choice, can access the highest quality courses, and receive the best possible value for money. An expert panel - led by Philip Augar - has published 53 recommendations for Government. The report says the removal of maintenance grants is deterring some less well-off young people, and recognises strong concerns about the highest levels of debt being incurred by disadvantaged students following grants being abolished. The PM also said that we must significantly increase support for further education. Despite the Government boosting education or training places for every 16 to 19-year old, rolling out T Levels, and creating high-quality apprenticeships, she will say more must be done for the 50% of young people who do not go to university. |
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10DS: PM: post-18 education must work better for everyone 10DS: PM speech at Augar Review launch: 30 May 2019 Post-18 review of education and funding: independent panel report ... CBI: Augar review has right approach to colleges, but must protect funding for English universities DfE: Education Secretary calls for an end to low value degrees Education Secretary: “Character & resilience are key to social mobility” |
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Home Secretary: EU Settlement Scheme is performing well RLA: Home Office committee shares RLA Brexit concerns OE: Fragmentation, Green wave, high turnout: reactions to European Parliament elections B4B: Brexit, Accountability and Reform B4B: Forget the Withdrawal Agreement - We Need a Fair Free Trade Deal B4B: May’s WA, the monster that must be destroyed B4B: Vassalage or Power? Thoughts for Would-Be Prime Ministers B4B: A new prime minister must end the Treasury’s anti-Brexit propaganda campaign B4B: Not listening to ‘no deal’: one clever politician and three bad arguments |
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