News

• TfL appoints Ian Campbell as CIO

  Transport for London has appointed British Energy's former group CIO as its new chief information officer

• Employers shouldn't see minor crimes, says adviser

  Records of minor offences on the Police National Computer should not appear in disclosures to employers, according to the home secretary's adviser

• Scanner failure snarled up student loans

  Document scanning malfunctions contributed to the failure of the Student Loans Company to process 54% of grant applications

• Police to charge for gun licences online

  Forces in the south west of England plan to collect payments for firearms and explosives licences through a new e-commerce system

• More news

• Highland Council renews £66m Fujitsu deal

• Government spent £153m on reorganisation IT

• Young people unsure about ID laws

• Minister proposes delaying London FireControl

• Police National Database will have audit trail

• Edinburgh looks for £27m IT deal

• Comment

• Let's have more connecting for health

  The NHS National Programme for IT's core strength is infrastructure. It should turn its attention to mobile and wireless connectivity, argues SA Mathieson

• A safe strategy

  The government's new ICT strategy is all about saving money, but leaves scope for another on the more controversial issues, writes Mark Say

• England: big enough to fail

  Provincial England's health service suffers from its size when trying to develop informatics, says SA Mathieson

• A failure to learn

  The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on the C-Nomis project suggests that parts of the public sector have been very slow to learn the lessons of earlier failures, writes Mark Say