Resources

LGA: The paper argues that councils’ Duty to Involve should not be the only reason that they involve their communities. By bringing citizens into the conversation, councils can deliver better, more effective and efficient services based on what the community wants and need.

ESU: The paper argues that including students on university boards increase positives outcomes and benefits all parties involved.

CfPS: The report argues that holding decision-makers to account is a public right and a way for decision makers to improve the services they deliver. Enabling the public to hold decision makers to account is adding complexity to the public sector itself by demanding governance structures be remodelled as a result.

Scottish Government Social Research: The paper argued that deliberative governance can simply be added to existing structures, but what is required is a complete reconsideration of current demands.

WSJ: The article argues that digital technologies can transform and add as much, if not more, value to the public sector as they do in the private sector.

Deloitte: The report discusses how new jobs created by robots and the automation of work are hugely under-supplied, presenting a number of opportunities.

Deloitte: As technology evolves and the citizens’ needs change, government jobs will need to adapt accordingly.

The King’s Fund: The relationship between the public and the NHS, and between patients and the staff needs to be transformed, as services and NHS requirements are evolving.

Societal changes driven by digital technologies are bringing engagement and participation opportunities closer and more easily accessible, whilst putting citizens at the centre.

A report says that most occupations will change and more people will have to work with technology as the study finds that about 60 percent of all occupations have at last 30 percent of activities that are technically automatable.

The report argues that the future of the NHS and healthcare more generally must primarily focus on the patient and the public.

The national think tank argues that for digital transformation to be adopted more widely public sector leaders need to be convinced this is the right way forward.

The report argues that digitalisation is not just about technology but it is also about getting and training the right people and taking the time to look through all the options.

The report argues that technology can play a vital role in creating a more efficient healthcare system but that public healthcare providers are constrained by costs and repercussions should the digitalisation malfunction.

The report highlights the importance that Artificial Intelligence can play in making the health system simpler, more accessible, more responsive, more sustainable and put patients in control.

The report argues that while technology has helped people live longer and healthier, it has, as a consequence, put extra strain and demands on global healthcare.

The report highlights the importance of developing robust mechanisms to guide the effective and safe deployment of technologies, whilst training staff on how to use them correctly.

The report emphasises the fact that digitalisation is more than just an IT overhaul but that the people and structures around it must change as well.

The Industrial Strategy sets out Grand Challenges to put the UK at the forefront of the industries of the future.

As the need for digital government capabilities increases during the COVID-19 pandemic, the European public sector can close the skills gap by focusing on three areas: recruitment, upskilling, reskilling.

The white paper sets the new Information Strategy for the Department of health. It links information governance to population health and sets out a road map on how information will be collected and used in the future

Information Governance requires organisations to take responsability for their information management. Makes a case for IG to have a multidisciplanary approach Decent history overiew for IG – can be used in a introduction to the theme Examples of Data/Information loss due to lack of information governance and information security.