A cyber attack on the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust led to the trust declaring a “major incident”, affecting all its hospitals. Appointments have been cancelled, staff had to manually handle tasks, systems holding records have been shut down and patient services like x-rays were not functioning on the day of the attack. The local authority and the trust are working together to manage this situation.
The NHS needs to tighten its third-party supplier cybersecurity
The NHS should proactively fortify cybersecurity within its third-party software suppliers following recent damaging ransomware attacks, says Jonathan Lee from Trend Micro. He suggests implementing
