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Response to WannaCry attacks and National Data Guardian’s review includes £21m capital fund for major trauma centres and NHS contract change requiring organisations to adopt data security standards including contingency plans to respond to data security threats
The government has announced a major investment in data and cyber security in the wake of the recent WannaCry cyber attack in May 2017 and in response to the National Data Guardian Dame Fiona Caldicott’s review of data security, consent and opt-outs.
It is a response to the recognition that cyber incidents such as WannaCry have the potential to impact directly on patient care and there is a need for the health and care system to “act decisively to minimise the impact on essential front-line services.
The measures, which include a new £21m capital fund for major NHS trauma centres, are outlined in the government’s Your Data: Better Security, Better Choice, Better Care document.
The document also announces that to strengthen the safeguarding of information, the National Data Guardian’s position will be put on a statutory footing with stronger sanctions introduced by May 2018 to protect anonymised data, including severe penalties for negligent or deliberate re-identification of individuals.
http://healthcare.governmentcomputi...eefing-up-nhs-data-and-cyber-security-5869341
The government has announced a major investment in data and cyber security in the wake of the recent WannaCry cyber attack in May 2017 and in response to the National Data Guardian Dame Fiona Caldicott’s review of data security, consent and opt-outs.
It is a response to the recognition that cyber incidents such as WannaCry have the potential to impact directly on patient care and there is a need for the health and care system to “act decisively to minimise the impact on essential front-line services.
The measures, which include a new £21m capital fund for major NHS trauma centres, are outlined in the government’s Your Data: Better Security, Better Choice, Better Care document.
The document also announces that to strengthen the safeguarding of information, the National Data Guardian’s position will be put on a statutory footing with stronger sanctions introduced by May 2018 to protect anonymised data, including severe penalties for negligent or deliberate re-identification of individuals.
http://healthcare.governmentcomputi...eefing-up-nhs-data-and-cyber-security-5869341