29 October 2026

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Hundreds of GP Websites Gone Overnight: What Supplier Insolvency Really Looks Like

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This week, up to 600 GP practices across England and Wales lost their websites after the company that provided them went into administration. Patients can no longer use the online consultation forms. The chatbots and the FootFall online consultation platform have gone too, and some practices have warned that requests patients had already sent may

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The Social Media Ban Will Check Adults Too. So Who Ends Up Holding Your Passport?

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This morning Ofcom published its assessment of how social media firms could check that their users are 16 or over when the under-16s ban comes into force next year. It names four methods it considers capable of being “highly effective”: photo ID matching, banking checks, digital ID services and facial age estimation. Most of the

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