While the Covid-19 pandemic placed great pressure on the NHS and social services, it also fuelled the momentum for transformation and the sectors have produced new solutions for long term challenges.
The emergence of new data capabilities and progress of technologies such as the internet of things and artificial intelligence are creating a range of possibilities – especially in monitoring vulnerable people while they live independently – but also posing new questions about the ethical use of data, the strength of local digital infrastructures and how the technologies can be integrated with legacy systems.
This comes with the desire for a better co-ordination of health and social care and more sophisticated public health initiatives. These are going to require an intelligent use of data, interoperable systems and widespread connectivity.
Government digital chiefs outline plans for CDDO and GDS
Paul Willmott, Joanna Davinson and Tom Read talk about establishing a digital, data and technology sub-board, plans to hire a chief technology officer and a chief data officer, and a five-year plan for the Government Digital Service
Share this item with your network: By Published: 04 May 2021 14:29
Paul Willmott, chairman of the government’s Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), is in the process of creating a digital, data and technology (DDaT) sub-board for the existing civil service board.
And speaking at a virtual Institute for Government (IfG) event, CDDO executive director Joanna Davinson said the board would comprise permanent secretaries from across government. The aim is to build a better relationship with the rest of government, ensuring that the CDDO does not end up as some “big central bureaucracy”, she said.
DSA to set data standard for vulnerable people services ukauthority.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ukauthority.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Final performance: what the closure of the government’s Performance Platform means
Government is closing two centralised tools to make data available to departments and the public. Sam Trendall finds out more
Performance platform closed
07 Apr 2021
The GOV.UK Performance Platform, which collates and publishes data on almost 800 services across departments, was closed last month.
The site brought together in one place a range of information designed to offer a snapshot of the performance of 777 citizen services, as well as tools such as the Digital Marketplace procurement platform, and the Verify identity-assurance product.
Information also included usage, cost-per-transaction, digitisation rate, completion percentage, uptime and user satisfaction.
British Government - once again - aims for one login for government diginomica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from diginomica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.