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info@commonwealthcontractors.comDavid Anderson, a Labour Party candidate, has said that the decision to call time on the Identity Card scheme could mean the loss of 160 skilled jobs at De La Rue Systems in Blaydon. The company won a £400 million contract with the Government last year to make biometric passports and immediately announced plans to […]
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The head of security at Microsoft UK, Cliff Evans, said that “The Security Intelligence Report Volume 8 provides compelling evidence that cyber criminals are becoming more sophisticated and packaging online threats to create, update and maintain exploit kits that are sold on to others to deploy. Malware creators are continually improving their ‘products’ by replacing […]
Jawad Chaudhry, Project Manager, said that “The aim with the tablet rollout was to improve clinical care, and we certainly did that. The number of patients seen by staff with tablet computers increased by 20 – 30% per week because staff didn’t need to travel back to the office between appointments.” Technological improvements in the […]
The Director of Public Sector at Virgin Media Business, Lee Hull, said that “All the signs are that voter engagement with MPs and the electoral process is suffering. Technology looks like it could be critical in helping to ignite more interest from the public. The absence of an e-voting system is ironic when you think […]
The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCO), the UK’s leading professional recruitment industry body, has said that according to members such as JMK Recruitment and ReadyPeople demand has intensified significantly over the last few years. JMK Recruitment believes that the emphasis is now much more firmly on interactivity rather than plain information. Social Media sites […]
So far this year both Cognizant Technologies and Infosys have predicted strong growth in the UK market of 20% and 16% to 18% respectively. Those predictions have even come before the General Election, due on May 6th, which has effectively ground to a halt the decision making process over large scale IT projects in the […]
However, the large spends by Germany and France can be attributed to a massive SNCF deal and Sweden’s big spend can be put down to a super deal thought to be between ABB (the Swedish Engineering company) and IBM. 40% of the total value of deals in the EMEA region have been put down to […]
The survey found that: Patient records and lab results go missing at least once a day according to over a quarter of hospital nurses Only 10% of nurses feel they have the time to check patient records thoroughly all 33% of nurses believe the use of physical patient records, instead of electronic systems, are responsible […]
The proposals seem to follow blueprints being laid down by specialist Indian Hospitals. Currently in India specialist hospitals, especially in heart surgery, are being developed in order to deal with the mass treatment of patients. Hospitals deal with a bulk number of patients, are provided with specialist cutting edge technologies and are staffed with a […]
The Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, said that “A free at the point of use service is only sustainable if people use it responsibly, and only take out according to their need at any given moment. I think informing people about the costs of services and using them responsibly is something we probably need to take […]