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Problems accessing Google on NHS network

1 February 2017 12:07 PM

NHS staff are having difficulty accessing Google, with many faced with a CAPTCHA page.

Man wrongly arrested for prescription fraud after IT bungle

1 February 2017 12:00 PM

The Brighton man expected to walk out of the pharmacy with his medicine. Instead he walked out with a police escort, thanks to an IT error.

Ransomware attack blamed on misconfigured firewall

1 February 2017 12:00 AM

The virus that shut Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust for four days likely exploited a misconfigured firewall, report finds.

North Midlands deploys Medway EPR

31 January 2017 12:00 PM

The University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust has gone live with System C’s Medway v4.6 electronic patient record, merging systems across two hospitals.

Redcentric wins £12 million HSCN contract

31 January 2017 12:00 AM

The new NHS network is taking shape, with Redcentric awarded a contract to run the peer exchange at the centre of HSCN.

A doctor collecting information on a patient using various mobile devices

Move to implement patient ‘data lake’ scheme

30 January 2017 12:00 AM

After meeting with NHS data experts and tech companies, NHS England chief information officer Will Smart wants to push on with a new patient data collection scheme.