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Hospital paper prescriptions to be scrapped to save lives
Deaths caused by prescription errors at NHS hospitals are to be tackled by getting rid of outdated paper systems, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said
Universal Jobmatch – government ignorance over job outcomes
The government does not know how many people are being employed as a result of its new Universal Jobmatch website, a minister has admitted
Half of UK superfast broadband projects still to start
22 of 44 superfast broadband schemes funded by hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money are still yet to get underway
7 million UK adults have never been online
Millions of adults across the UK have still never used the internet at a time when the government wants to push public services online
Prison for breaching data rules, says Shakespeare review
People should face prison for misusing personal data, says Stephan Shakespeare's review of public sector information and open data
The insecurity of databases and the loss and theft of memory sticks dominate government ICT, with the transformation agenda coming a poor second.
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