First clinical director for informatics
The Department of Health has announced that it has appointed Charles Gutteridge as the first national clinical director for informatics.
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Nettel to ‘pursue other interests’
The chief executive of Barts and the London NHS Trust has resigned amid what is starting to look like a major shake-up of NHS management in London. The trust confirmed this morning that Julian Nettel was “leaving the trust to pursue other interests” and would leave by the end of February. Nettel was chief executive […]
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Barts virus attack ‘avoidable’
The Mytob worm attack on the Barts and the London NHS Trust network was “entirely avoidable”, an independent review has concluded. Board papers published on the trust’s website indicate that although the trust had anti-virus protection “that was updated on a daily basis prior to the attack” this “did not reach all PCs” and was […]
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Barts virus caused ‘major internal incident’
Last November’s Mytob worm attack on the network of Barts and the London NHS Trust led to its ‘major internal incident’ plan being activated, with some ambulances redirected from A&E. The network failure was one of the most severe known to have occurred at an NHS hospital trust. To clean and restore the infected network, Barts […]
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Expert view: beating malware
Mark Jackson, consulting systems engineer, Cisco Systems, argues that it’s time for a new approach.
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Barts takes a week to recover from Mytob virus
Barts and the London NHS Trust is still working to recover from the Mytob worm virus a week after it hit the hospital trust’s computer network. The Mytob computer virus first infected the Barts and The London computer systems on Tuesday 18 November. A trust spokesperson yesterday told E-Health Insider: “We expect all PCs will be […]
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