#digital-exclusion tag

Not everyone has a smartphone': Readers divided on mandatory online GP bookings

Readers are split on keeping GP online booking systems open all day, praising convenience and accessibility while warning about digital exclusion, overwhelmed GPs, and misdiagnosis.

Public health

fromTheregister

1 day ago

UK's digital hospital plan meets analog reality check

England will launch an NHS Online 'digital hospital' offering consultant appointments via the NHS app to reduce waiting times, initially targeting specialties with longest backlogs.

Social justice

fromNon Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

3 days ago

Digital Access Advocates Fight Against Exclusion - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Digitization of public services creates structural exclusion that disproportionately denies access to low-income, unconnected, or digitally illiterate individuals.

UK politics

fromwww.theguardian.com

1 week ago

Digital ID cards: a versatile and useful tool or a worrying cybersecurity risk?

Keir Starmer is reviving proposals for digital ID to tackle illegal migration, improve service access, and reduce fraud amid privacy and digital-exclusion concerns.

fromBusiness Matters

1 week ago

Ryanair sparks fury as it bans paper boarding passes

Silver Voices, an over-60s lobby group, branded the move "disgraceful" and argued it amounted to discrimination against those who struggle with technology. Director Dennis Reed said: "They are effectively saying they don't want older people as passengers. This will cause chaos and isolate people who don't have smartphones. If someone turns up at the airport without the app, what happens - are they simply turned away?"

Travel

Social justice

fromwww.independent.co.uk

1 month ago

IPP prisoners are dogged by stigma and set up to fail' on release, report warns

Released long-term prisoners face stigma, lack digital skills and basic essentials, and risk recall, leaving them ill-equipped to rebuild housing, employment and social ties.