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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Deaths caused by prescription errors at NHS hospitals are to be tackled by getting rid of outdated paper systems, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said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

David Cameron on his iPad

Data: it must actually mean something

The public sector, from Whitehall to local government, is pretty poor at making good use of the masses of data it holds – and things have got to change, delegates at Public Service Events' Making Data Work conference were told. Matthew D'Arcy reports

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