Crossword Cybersecurity plc acquires Verifiable Credentials Limited Crossword Cybersecurity Plc is pleased to announce its acquisition of the whole of the share capital of Verifiable Credentials Limited (VCL), the provider of Identiproof™, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) verifiable credentials compatible middleware and wallet technology, with whom Crossword is already working.
Identiproof, VCL’s middleware technology suite of products, is a key component in verifiable credentials systems such as COVID-19 status certificates and their issuer, verifier, and wallet applications. Identiproof is currently being used in a UK Government funded trial of COVID-19 certificates for East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) which Crossword is also involved in, separately for a client in the entertainment sector, and with another client in the United Arab Emirates. Identiproof will become Crossword’s third product, joining Rizikon and Nixer in the portfolio, as a
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(The Daily Telegraph) Instead of developing its own games, tinyBuild takes on “promising titles from independent developers” and helps with funding, marketing and technical expertise. It is “becoming extremely profitable and cash generative” and “little need to invest in fixed assets” has translated into very high returns on capital. The computer-games sector is “bigger than film and music combined”, and tinyBuild will keep growing with it.
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(The Mail on Sunday) Covid-19 passports are being “actively explored” by governments and firms worldwide. With fraudsters “already at work” offering fake certificates, the documentation “needs to be secure”. Crossword Cybersecurity is working to ensure that Covid-19 certificates are “authentic and safe”. It has trials under way with the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust and some entertainment venues. It also “has several other strings to its bow
Monday April 19, 2021, 11:17 AM
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has pleaded guilty to failing to provide safe care and treatment for seven-day-old Harry Richford.
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has pleaded guilty at Folkestone Magistrates Court to failing to provide safe care and treatment for seven-day-old Harry Richford, who died in 2017, and his mother Sarah Richford.
The trust admitted failing to provide safe care and treatment to Harry and his mother Sarah Richford under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations.
East Kent Hospitals Chief Executive, Susan Acott, said: “We are deeply sorry that we failed Harry, Sarah and the Richford family and apologise unreservedly for our failures in their care.
By Press Association 2021
Tom and Sarah Richford
The parents of a baby boy who died at a scandal-hit NHS trust say they now have “some sort of justice” after spending years fighting for change.
Harry Richford’s “wholly avoidable” death in November 2017 led to East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust being charged and taken to court.
His parents say they fear that serious failings would have been “brushed under a carpet” if they had not campaigned for answers.
There have been reports that at least seven preventable baby deaths may have occurred at the trust since 2016.
On Monday the trust admitted failing to provide safe care and treatment to Harry and his mother Sarah Richford under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations, in the first prosecution of its kind.
Harry Richford: NHS trust pleads guilty to care failures over death of baby
An inquest found that Harry’s death in November 2017 was “wholly avoidable
Care for mothers and newborn babies at the trust has been heavily criticised (Image: PA)
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