Youssof Oskrochi, head of safety at Curistica (left) and Elliott Roy-Highley, medical director at Unbound (right) (Credit: Youssof Oskrochi and Elliott Roy-Highley)
A national study into NHS clinical safety found that more than 10,000…
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Pathology supplier Synnovis is contacting NHS organisations which had data stolen and published online following a major cyber attack last year.
The ransomware attack on 4 June 2024, which led to a patient death, caused widespread…
Dr Mick Quinn, consultant physician and member of BT’s clinical advisory board (Credit: BT)
There is a need for a fundamental shift in how cyber security is perceived, writes Dr Mick Quinn, consultant…
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James Rawlinson, director of health informatics at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, says that 2% of the trust’s devices could not be updated to Windows 11 (Credit: The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust)
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Exclusive: An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, which affected more than 1,000 companies and millions of internet users, is believed to have disrupted patient care across several NHS sites.
A digital chief at an acute…
Saif Abed, founding partner and director of cyber security advisory services at The AbedGraham Group (Credit: Jordan Sollof)
A cyber security expert has called for a public inquiry into the Synnovis ransomware attack which…
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Mike Nesbitt, health minister for Northern Ireland (Credit: Department of Health)
Around 1,600 patient appointments have been postponed owing to an IT outage at the Southern Health and Social Care Trust (SHSCT), Mike Nesbitt,…
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UK and Netherlands-based cyber security and compliance firm Naq has raised €6 million (£5.1m) to help health technology companies meet NHS standards.
The startup, which emerged from the government’s National Cyber Security Centre flagship cyber…
Personal health data from more than 485,000 women has been stolen after hackers accessed the IT systems of a cervical cancer screening programme in the Netherlands.
The incident occurred between 3 July and 6 July…
Staff at two hospitals in the south west of England have resorted to using paper after a major IT incident just days before the planned resident doctors’ strikes.
Cheltenham and Gloucester NHS Foundation Trust reported…
