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Editor’s choice of ICT items of note:

Information Commissioner: Organisations need to do more to help people affected by data breaches

Ripple effect: the devastating impact of data breaches

Biometric data retention: review report

Global privacy authorities issue follow-up joint statement on data scraping after industry engagement

Unlocking the power of data analysis at the Home Office: introducing the Analytics Workbench

UK Space Agency: UK to chair global Earth observation group with bold ambitions for data uptake

RUSI Hosts Workshop at Singapore International Cyber Week 2024
 
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Editor’s choice of Health, Social Care & Homelessness related items of note:

Early years dental health improvement programme recovers to pre-pandemic levels

Devastating record levels of rough sleeping in London

1,400 libraries now offering people support to use NHS App

Your voice is needed – my experience as a NICE committee member

Commission commences inquiry into Bradford based charity

People with a rare form of blood cancer are set to benefit after NICE recommends new targeted therapy

Introducing CHEERS-AI: improving health economic evaluation for AI technologies

More people are benefitting from NICE-recommended statins to reduce heart attacks and strokes

NHS Confederation - Nuffield Trust analysis is further evidence of NHS's intractable financial challenges

NHS Confederation responds to CQC State of Care report
 
Editor’s choice of Business / Commercial items of note:

Menai Suspension Bridge reopens over winter after hanger replacement completed on schedule

Exceptional pre-release access to Office for National Statistics hourly pay data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings

Logistics deal could raise prices for business customers in the UK

TUC - More than half of business leaders (59%) say they are losing staff time due to poor state of public services

Supporting food and drink businesses

Update following round 5 of negotiations on an enhanced Free Trade Agreement with Switzerland

CBI - Retail sales dip in lead up to Autumn Budget - CBI Distributive Trades Survey

 
Editor’s choice of Policy & General items of note:

Georgia elections 2024: Minister Doughty statement

LGA - Affordable housing and Right to Buy reform: LGA statement

Former Sussex officer charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and fraud

First Minister issues call for peace in the Middle East

CQC State of Care report - LGA response

The £580,000 project restoring and re-wiggling a damaged Cardiff river

Advocacy for children in accommodation rated inadequate

Three ways the Budget will put more money in working people’s pockets

Christmas and New Year courts and tribunals opening times 2024
 
SME Supplier Locator update...

With the officially stated target and ongoing drive for SME’s to receive £1 of every £3 spent on government contracts, UK public sector spend with SME’s is continually on the increase.

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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Archidata - Specialist land and building surveyors

 
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