Andrew Lansley pre-empted £1.5bn of the National Health Service capital budget on Monday by pledging that under a Conservative government, all patients needing planned treatment would have the opportunity to choose a single room.

Don’t shout it too loud but the agile enterprise imposes responsibilities to go with the benefits it brings.

The recent spate of high profile cases have made data security, unfortunately, one of the issues of the year. What has become apparent is that the topic cuts across both public and private organisations and the solution to these breaches is not purely electronic and cannot be resolved by the flick o...

The recent spate of data losses in the UK has been met with public outrage and disbelief and left many people unsure of whether organisations can be trusted with their personal information. There is a strong conviction that such things should not happen and that, if proper security measures were emp...

Can I take that with me?

It’s a common scenario; a conscientious employee wants to complete an outstanding project over the weekend, so he plugs in a USB key to take the report home or sends it to his personal e-mail address.

The world of information security is a fickle one, dominated by tools with fantastic capabilities, or so they claim on the box. So it’s not surprising that when shifts occur within this industry, the tools and their associated claims are not far behind.

A political row broke out over health funding on Wednesday as the National Health Service forecast a £1.75bn surplus for the current financial year.

GlaxoSmithKline, the UK-based pharmaceutical group, plans to relaunch discussions with the Department of Health in an effort to reverse a decision that the National Health Service will not adopt its new cancer medicine Tyverb.