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Cyber security underpins the safe and secure delivery of digital health services. Modern healthcare critically depends on reliable, effective digital infrastructure, playing a key contribution to productivity and efficiency as well as patient safety.
NHS England is letting a contract worth £4.3m to “enhance cyber risk visibility, assurance and resilience” throughout the NHS supply chain.
Mark Edwards, CISO at Digital Health and Care Wales has warned that cyber attacks on critical national infrastructure are likely to increase.
More than 1,134 elective procedures and 2,194 outpatient appointments have been postponed since the cyber attack on Synnovis on 3 June.
Cyber criminals have published patient data online which they claim was stolen as part of an attack on Synnovis, NHS England has confirmed.
US non-profit health system Ascension says that its electronic health records system has been restored across following a ransomware incident in May 2024.
NHS Dumfries and Galloway is warning around 150,000 patients to assume that their personal data is likely to have been stolen and published online.
