The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is exempting over 300,000 healthcare roles from a government-wide hiring freeze, which notably includes doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and medical officers for veteran care. Job offers previously rescinded due to the freeze are being reinstated by departmental human resources. This move follows similar actions taken during the Trump administration’s hiring freeze in 2017.

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