Public Sector Roundup: £17 million IT for MoD

MoD gets new IT for reference centre

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has hired IT services provider Steria for a £17 million, five-year contract to run its Land Systems Reference Centre (LSRC).

Steria will lead a team which carries out tests on systems before they are deployed to help reduce risks and improve efficiencies, the MoD said.

Phil Hutchinson, project manager at the LSRC, said: "The Steria Team offer an approach which equips the LSRC to deal with the increasing demands for testing and acceptance, as it uses internationally recognised best practice methodologies to deliver a cost-effective programme."

NHS Trust rolls out password management

Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust is implementing a password management and authentication system using Imprivata's OneSign.

The trust is hoping the new system will help cut down the growing number of passwords staff had to remember, and cut back on calls to IT when they forget. The new Picture Archiving and Communications System required four separate logins alone. Geoff Berry, assistant director of IT for the trust, added: "We wanted to solve this in a way that would also improve our ability to audit user activity and prove that security policies are being followed."

The system will use the NHS smart card to log users in, but also supports biometrics, proximity cards and other password tokens. Already in use in the radiology department, it will rollout across the trust to 1,000 clinical and non-clinical employees over the next six months.

London borough links up IT

The London Borough of Havering has been awarded the Code of Connection from the London Public Service Network (LPSN), which allows it to share information across a London-wide network.

The code ensures a council has strong enough security to not jeopardise the other systems, but now just two of 26 who would like to join the LPSN have achieved that status. The LPSN will link up social services, NHS and emergency organisations to help share information.

Councillor Roger Ramsey said: "The amount of information available in London nowadays means that councils must be better connected than ever. The Code of Connection will allow us to share information more efficiently with the rest of London. It will lead to closer ties with other London boroughs and prove to be a useful tool in all aspects of council affairs."

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