Cybersecurity news round-up
3 November 2017
This month’s cyber security industry round-up covers the National Audit Office’s report on WannaCry and how more people needed to combat cyber security skills gap.
News
WannaCry: NHS England stresses need for better communications
2 November 2017
NHS Digital and NHS England admit more needs to be done in establishing a better communication process to prevent cyber-attacks.
Cambridge University Hospitals take two top honours at EHI Awards
2 November 2017
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust scooped two of the top prizes at the 2017 EHI Awards.
NHS England CIO says service needs ‘at least’ another £4.2 billion for IT
2 November 2017
NHS England’s CIO Will Smart has said the NHS needs at least another £4.2 billion of IT investment to finish the job of digitisation.
NHS England launches £45m funding for GP online consultation system
2 November 2017
The future of primary care has to be ‘way more technology enabled’ according to head of general practice development at NHS England, Dr Robert Varnam.
No surprises as WannaCry dominates cybersecurity talks at EHI Live
2 November 2017
Healthcare executives drove home the need to adopt new ways of working to protect themselves against cyber-threats during the first day of EHI Live 2017.
Health minister says he would not “immediately” reject Airbnb type scheme
2 November 2017
Philip Dunne has said he would not ‘immediately’ reject a scheme where hospital patients could be discharged to people’s spare rooms.
The Single Patient Record: revolutionising care or rewriting trust?
16 June 2026
Jordan Sollof is joined at NHS ConfedExpo 2026 by Dr Peter Thomas and Kate Warriner
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
16 June 2026
Today’s briefing features enhanced cancer-killing agents technology and an AI model for NHS Care Navigation.
MHRA launches AI sandbox to improve medicines safety
16 June 2026
The MHRA is launching a new AI regulatory sandbox to improve medicines safety and accelerate
New genetic ancestry data to tackle health inequalities
15 June 2026
Our Future Health has released genetic ancestry data from 755,000 participants, enabling researchers to tackle
NHS leaders call time on AI pilots and demand national scaling
15 June 2026
Senior NHS digital leaders have called for an end to repeated AI pilots, arguing that
