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Bigwigs report lots of progress in the cash-flinging department The UK's Department of Health and Social Care released a progress update this week on the hesitant efforts to deal with shonky NHS IT.…
Despite having electronic record systems in place, 94% of NHS Trusts still use handwritten notes for patient record keeping, according to a report from Parliament Street.
On Monday July 2, Jackie Doyle-Price, the parliamentary under-secretary of state for health, delivered a written statement to the UK parliament. It explained that 150,000 NHS patients who had...
Another day, another UK public health data breach Confidential information on 150,000 NHS patients has been distributed against their wishes for years due to a "coding error" by healthcare...
FoI request reveals extent of attacks on UK healthcare NHS trusts across England experienced more than 1,300 hours of downtime in the last three years, according to results from a Freedom of...
Cyber resiliency of the UK's health service still in disarray Nearly a year has passed since the unprecedented WannaCry cyber attack and the UK's NHS has yet to agree an action plan, according to...
Assume we're going to get hacked next time and plan for it The NHS has learned from last year's WannaCry attack and started putting in place disaster recovery measures that will allow it to...
But Solving Cybersecurity Problems Requires More Than Pounds and PenceFollowing the WannaCry outbreak, the British government says it's increased cybersecurity funding for England's national...
Basic Cybersecurity Defense Every Day Keeps the Ransomware Infections at BayThe National Health Service in England should have been able to block the "unsophisticated" WannaCry ransomware...
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ruled today that the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust contravened the Data Protection Act when it provided the personal data of 1.6 million...