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Editor’s choice of ICT items of note:

Energy and optimism palpable at first AI in Healthcare Symposium

Technology and Energy Secretaries chair second AI Energy Council meeting

Can AI help Russia Decisively Improve its Information War Against the West?

Upgrading national grid to power AI future to be tackled at AI Energy Council

Pushing platforms to go further: Ofcom sets out more online protections

TUC Cymru welcomes plans for worker-led transition to AI

Digital Transformation in the Public Sector Week 2025 #techUKdigitalPS

DPA Secures Scottish Charity Status Deepening Commitment to Digital Inclusion Across Scotland
 

The Local Government Procurement Index 2025

Powered by Tussell's market intelligence platform, the Index breaks down who UK authorities spent their procurement budgets with in 2024.

The Index reveals what proportion of your authority's procurement went directly to SMEs, VCSEs and locally-based suppliers, and how this compares with other authorities nationally.

See how your own or neighbouring local authority's procurement with SMEs, VCSEs and local suppliers stacks up

 
Editor’s choice of Health, Social Care & Homelessness related items of note:

World-first AI system to warn of NHS patient safety concerns

PM launches new era for NHS with easier care in neighbourhoods

Managing healthcare easy as online banking with revamped NHS App

NHS Confederation responds to NHS England’s performance and assessment framework

10-year health plan: ‘Neighbourhood NHS’ to shift care from hospitals to high streets, says IPPR

NHS Confederation responds to government’s ten-year health plan

Statement from the Children’s Commissioner on NHS 10-Year Plan

Using Discrete Event Simulation to explore "what-if" waiting list scenarios in NHS Scotland
 
Editor’s choice of Business / Commercial items of note:

Food Standards Agency updates guidance allowing CBD businesses to reformulate products on the Public List for safety reasons

Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses to benefit from largest flood defence investment programme in history

£11.7m fund to boost business investment and jobs at Port Talbot

Retail sales fall for the ninth consecutive month - CBI Distributive Trades Survey - June 2025

UK Introduces New Trade Measures to Support Steel Sector

UK-US trade deal kicks into gear: immediate tariff cuts for UK auto and aerospace sectors

Norway's WTO Trade Policy Review: UK Statement

New powers yield "real-world impact" in Companies House economic crime crackdown

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

What is the Regulatory Innovation Office? And what is it not…

The UK stands ready to support steps towards a durable peace in DRC: UK statement at the UN Security Council

Organization of American States: Baroness Chapman Intervention

Private sector growth expectations remain weak - CBI Growth Indicator June 2025

Man who hid cocaine worth £120m in artificial grass is jailed

Heatwave persists in the south while cloud and rain move into the northwest

FCA secures guilty plea from John Burford in £1m investor fraud scheme

Tech4Youth Launches on the Yorkshire Coast

Tech4Youth Launches in Westminster

 
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:

Click here to find out more.

Omega Geomatics Ltd

 
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