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CAS Virtual Post Room and Post Scanning Services
In the digital age, it’s easy to imagine that post room services have lost their importance. Especially when we think about marketing services, the current idea is that print has lost its once dominant position. But those ideas mask the reality that print is still incredibly...
GDPR #8 Managing Personal Data Under The New Regime
Over the past weeks, we’ve run a series of blogs to cover the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into effect from May 2018. This tightens up protections for individuals of their personal data, and increases requirements for organisations to take care of such...
Are You Moving Offices? We can Help Make it Easier
However settled your organisation is in an office building or commercial location, there comes a time when you’re looking to move. Whether it’s the end of a tenancy that can’t be renewed, the need to contain rental costs, or taking advantage of a new market, there are all sorts...
GDPR #7 Personal Data Security: Managing Breaches
Our recent series of blogs covers the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will be effective from May 2018. We’ve looked at various aspects of data protection rights for individuals, and responsibilities for organisations. This week, our focus is on preparing for the...
Confidential Document Shredding Services: A Vital Element of Data Protection
It sometimes seems that every organisation is fighting a battle against paper, however much there is talk of a modern office being ‘paperless’. As well as helping companies to save space, CAS' secure and confidential document shredding services for out-of-date documents is...
GDPR #6 Personal Data: Transferring Data Outside Europe
The Europe-wideGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)comes into effect from May 2018. Over the past few weeks, we’ve looked at various aspects of the GDPR, as it will affect your organisation and your rights as an individual. This week, we look at transferring data outside...
Document Storage in London, Safe and Secure with CAS
Does your organisation struggle to find storage space for all your documents? In London, increasing commercial and office rents means that the costs of keeping this storage on-site is rising. But in most organisational budgets, this element of cost is simply hidden within the...
CAS FAQ on the recent Ransomware Cyber Attack
Following the mass ransomware cyber attack and the infection of the NHS systems last week, we thought it would be helpful to share some answers to your questions.
Protecting Medical Data from Cyber Attacks
Cyber attacks may be the new Cold War. Data security has never been more important, or in light of recent events, more critical. CAS are experts at protecting medical data through our advanced CAS-cloud storage system. For physical patient notes, we provide highly secure medical...
GDPR #5 Personal Data: GDPR Individual Rights Strengthened
With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in effect from May 2018, data protection is changing. In the past few weeks, we’ve covered various aspects of the GDPR and the effects for your organisation. This week we look at how the GDPR strengthens individuals’ rights...
SME Business Services: Cut Your Overheads With CAS!
Every organisation is under constant pressure to control its overheads. However good the business model, it’s where many a small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) has come unstuck. Office rents, together with ancillary costs such as insurance, business rates and utilities, can...
Understanding GDPR Codes of Conduct and Compliance
In our fourth blog post on the new General Data Protection Regulation, we focus on GDPR Code of Conduct. From May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will change the law surrounding data protection. In the past few weeks we’ve looked at how the GDPR defines...
Digitising Data: How To Take Your Document Archive Online
For many of our clients, the task of digitising data and document archives is a daunting one; but it can be business critical. Many organisations need to do it to free up valuable office space to reduce overheads with office rents being so high. Moreover, with the advent of more...
GDPR #3 Accountability And Governance For GDPR Personal Data: What Organisations Need To Do
Data protection law is changing with the advent of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018. In the past two weeks we’ve looked at how the GDPR defines personal data, and how individuals’ rights to consent will change. In the third of our blogs, we look at how...
Confidential and Secure Shredding for Documents and IT Data
A strategic approach to document shredding can improve your data security and save the planet, one tree at a time — and here's how in three easy steps.
GDPR Personal Data And Individual Consent: What Will Change Under The New Regulation?
In the second of our blog series, we explore how the Europe-wide General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will affect an individual’s consent to an organisation holding their personal data from May 2018. (Last week, we looked at what constitutes personal data – i.e. information...
GDPR: Processing personal data, are you a data controller?
The first in a series of blogs helping you understand the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) There’s a new data protection regime coming into force in May 2018: the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You may already have heard about this new Europe-wide...
Safe and Secure Document and Data Disposal
Whether it’s disposing of sensitive data in paper documents or stored on old IT equipment, CAS can help you with your data disposal needs.
NHS Trust Chooses CAS to Store Confidential Patient Records
CAS was commissioned by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust to undertake a project to relocate and digitise over 20,000 confidential client health care files. The files were for the Children & Young Person’s Unit and included information about all children receiving care...
Premier Secure Document Storage London
CAS is a company with a passion for secure document storage, digitisation, management and confidential disposal. Our expert services are designed around the specific needs of NHS Trusts, Financial Services providers, and corporate and private clients. Founded 20 years ago, our...
London Office Space is Expensive, Outsource Document Storage
Secure document storage and efficient records management are of particular importance in two industry sectors; the NHS and financial services. Both of these areas have been hit in recent years with rising costs and the need to reduce overheads. And, particularly for the NHS; to...
Safe, Secure and Confidential Document Shredding
Secure document shredding for out-of-date confidential papers is more than business hygiene factor; it can also help companies to save space and improve data security. But a strategic approach must include more than buying a desktop shredder and adding the resulting waste to the...
Office Removal Services for London and the South East
At CAS we have a team of office removal specialists. Their mission is to listen to your exact needs and plan the perfect solution for your particular project. From selecting the right boxes and crates, through parking and access arrangements, to packing IT equipment and filling;...
Facilities Management Services
Approved by the NHS and the Financial Standards Authority, CAS has developed the most comprehensive services to safeguard business-critical records. And, as well as digitisation, document storage boxes, cataloguing, archive storage and data storage, CAS also offers complete...
Document & Data Storage Secured
Secured Document & Data Storage Information Security is a fundamental focus of business at CAS. We are the trusted partner of NHS Trusts, Financial services organisations and a whole host of small and enterprise level companies – providing them with the broadest range of secure...
Advanced Security for Medical Records Storage
CAS provide expert medical records storage and medical records archive facilities. We can help NHS Trusts to ensure that their medical records storage is in the best possible shape to help deliver excellent patient care. The extended use of patient records means that finding...
Improve Medical Document Storage with Lloyd George Boxes
Lloyd George Medical Records Storage Boxes Experts in document archive storage and medical records storage, CAS have been supporting NHS Trusts and GP practices for 20 years. We specialise in developing storage solutions that exactly meets each client’s needs. This includes...
CAS-Cloud Facilitates Remote Working
CAS Cloud Service Remote and flexible working is becoming increasingly popular with employers and workers alike. The opportunity to structure a working day around customers’ needs without missing the kid’s Christmas Panto delivers the almost mythical ‘work-life balance’. The...
Document Scanning Saves Space, Time and Money
It is no secret that the NHS is under enormous pressure to get the most out of existing resources. And the pressure is increasingly on reducing the costs associated with administrative functions within the NHS estate. One way to reduce administration, and simultaneously increase...
Planning an Office Removal? Catalogue and Digitise First
Moving to a new office can be a complicated and stressful operation. It certainly takes a considerable amount of time and planning to make the process efficient. Often companies move into new premises only to discover that they are then unpacking a lot of unwanted or...
Stress-Free Office Removal and Reorganisation Services
It is said that moving house is one of the most stressful things in life. But for the senior management team in a company, moving to a new office can take that stress to a new level. Everyone has their special requirements, equipment and working scenarios; there are legal issues...
Accredited NHS Secure Document Management Services
NHS Trusts are increasingly working with document management companies to provide expert digitisation, storage and online access to medical records. Accuracy, confidentially and expertise in handling sensitive documents is of paramount concern. Accreditations exist which...
Medical Records Storage, Modernising the Archive
Secure and accessible storage of patient records is vital to running a successful NHS Trust. In the NHS England Document and Records Policy, medical records are identified as "a valuable resource because of the information they contain." Furthermore, the policy goes on to say...
As Financial Records Storage Experts: How can we Help You?
Financial Records Storage Facilities From credit cards, bank accounts and mortgages, to loans, savings and pensions, virtually every adult in the UK is a consumer of financial services, and all of the companies that provide those services are regulated by the Financial Conduct...
Looking for Lloyd George Storage Boxes? Look no Further
“We should not emulate them only in armaments." In his 1909 Budget Speech, David Lloyd George proposed the introduction of a national health and welfare insurance similar to the scheme Germany launched in 1884. Lloyd George visited Germany during his first year as Chancellor of...
Maximise NHS Resources By Digitising Medical Records
Digitising Medical Records NHS resources represent a strange conundrum – a vast budget, the fifth largest workforce in the world, and an immense property estate*. And it still isn't enough. Improvements in treatments, an ageing population, and pressure from other government...
CAS-Cloud Delivers 24/7 Online File Storage and Access
Online File Storage One of the wonderful things about the rise of technology is the ability to work from anywhere in the world and still communicate with your team and deliver projects effectively. And, as flexible and remote working becomes ever more popular, companies are...
Confidential Shredding: Saving the Planet and Securing Data
Confidential Shredding Document shredding might sound like one of those 'business hygiene factors' — saves space but not too exciting. Well, there’s a lot more to it than that. A strategic approach to confidential shredding can improve your data security and save the planet, one...
Why Should You Focus on Your Facilities Management Efforts?
Facilities Management Services A huge number of our clients are concerned with the rising and often hidden costs of contracting multiple suppliers for regular business services. Choosing one vendor offers a broad range of benefits — here are the three most common questions we...
Secure Document & Data Storage
CAS, The Fort Knox of Document and Data Storage Facilities Data and document security is such a hot topic that I wanted to write a few words about the importance it holds for us at CAS. I’m sure that every company will say that they take security seriously — but for us it’s...
NHS Trust Chooses Clarks Archive Storage
In September 2015, Clarks Archive Storage (CAS), was approached by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust to undertake a project to relocate and digitise over 20,000 confidential client health care files. The files were for the Children & Young Person’s Unit and included...
Your Guide to Storing NHS Medical Records Securely
NHS Medical Records The value of keeping good medical records can be seen as ‘The Life Project’ cradle-to-grave survey turns 70. It has been instrumental in identifying what makes some people happy, healthy and successful – and others not.
How Document Storage Companies can Help You
Document storage companies can help improve productivity and avoid unnecessary ‘lost time’. Research shows that it takes employees at big companies an average of 38 minutes to find a document.
The Benefits of Outsourcing Your Document Management Services
Archive storage companies can offer many benefits to businesses. With office sizes shrinking both in the UK and USA perhaps one of the most important of these is reducing the need to have space to store documents.
Medical records storage – a valuable health sector resource.
Good medical records storage is vital to running a successful medical practice, facility or department. In the NHS England Document and Records Policy medical records are identified as ‘a valuable resource because of the information they contain’. Furthermore, the policy goes...
Professional document management services
Professional document management services can be a great help in dealing with the ever-increasing amount of information that businesses receive. The indications are that the level of information we all receive, or have access to, will continue to increase. In a recent survey...
Your Guide to Safe and Secure Document Management
Document Management With the ‘squeeze’ on office space, and changing working practices, good, professional document management is becoming a must for businesses.
A Short Guide to Offsite Document Storage
Offsite document storage has become increasingly popular in the UK. It’s no wonder, when, according to data from the British Council for Offices (BCO), an industry club, the average office tenant now uses around 11 square metres per worker, 35% less than in 1997. Influenced by...
Secure document shredding in London and the UK
Secure document shredding is vital in ensuring that confidential information stays confidential. It’s easy to assume that a standard office shredder will do the job properly – but shredding a large number of documents in the office can be time consuming, costly and messy and...