Hackers bombarding the NHS with 11m+ attacks
The NHS has been hit with over 11.3 million email-based cyber-attacks over the past three years, illustrating a major threat to healthcare systems in the UK, according to new data from NHS Digital. The news comes as cyber experts warm of the increasing risk posed to NHS patients, with hackers attempting to breach systems to steal data.
- 12 July 2019
NHS trusts ‘misplace’ 10,000 patient records in major security breach
Red alert for NHS security standards as new research reveals major document losses across 68 health trust. Barry Scott CTO of cybersecurity firm Centrify warns stolen documents could be sold on the dark web
- 20 August 2018
World Health Service or National Health Service?
The NHS is being ripped off -- which means that British taxpayers are being ripped off -- by non-UK residents getting free care and claiming British money when they go home. This is part of a bigger set of questions, and we must move decisively to answer them
- 11 August 2015
Italy's health system versus the NHS
The embarrassing Olympic opening ceremony was watched by hundreds of millions of people with far better health systems than ours. Italy, as Tim Hedges recounts, just wipes the floor with the NHS. Why are we in denial?
- 1 June 2015
The NHS really is safe in Tory hands
Labour and the wider Left are constantly scaremongering that the Conservatives would wreck the NHS. That's just empty propaganda, which may explain why Miliband is making no capital out of it. If anything, the NHS is safer in Tory hands than Labour
- 1 May 2015
Labour's confused approach to the NHS
The National Health Service is of vital importance to most Britons, and the Tories have much to offer. But Labour, while making it central to their campaign, appear to have nothing serious to offer, except the example of the NHS in Wales where Labour control has made matters worse
- 29 March 2015
Why can't Britain see the real problem with the NHS?
The management structure and the power of the doctors' union, the BMA, are fundamental to understanding why Britain's NHS doesn't work properly. You wouldn't know it if you listened to the blather from most politicians and journalists
- 15 February 2015
Tories must take Labour on NHS, UKIP on immigration
Labour mistakenly believe the NHS is "their turf". But the polling shows they are vulnerable to the Conservatives on this issue in the run-up to May. Conservatives can and must also take UKIP on immigration to secure an outright majority, says Andrew Rosindell MP
- 15 January 2015
Health, statistics and Labour lies
Lies, damned lies, and statistics, and then Labour statistics! It's fine to highlight data that support your case, but on the NHS and the wider economy Labour is so desperate that they're just making the figures up as they go along. You can't trust Labour on the economy or the NHS
- 8 January 2015
Will we ever get a grown up debate about the NHS?
As the NHS takes centre stage in the general election campaign one despairs of the quality of debate. Why oh why can Britons not accept that there's a reason the UK's state-dominated health service is emphatically not the envy of the world?
- 7 January 2015
Tax England to fund Scotland? Labour’s sums don’t add up
Labour has already declared war on businesses, now they are taking that fight to hardworking families. Don’t let them wreck out economy again.
- 6 January 2015
NHS Trust cyber security spending increases fivefold
Dramatic rise in cyber security spending at leading NHS Trust shows that information security and patient privacy is high on the health service agenda
- 6 January 2015
After Mid Staffs, Labour’s NHS lies won’t fool voters
When Labour have a shadow health secretary with Andy Burnham’s credentials, it is hardly surprising that the latest ComRes poll shows that 22 percent of people say David Cameron is the party leader they most trust to manage the NHS, with Ed Miliband on 20 percent. Labour's lies aren't working
- 4 January 2015
PMQs: Labour can't run the economy or the NHS
It has been a long standing feature of Labour failure not to understand that public services have to be paid for. If you bankrupt the wider economy you bankrupt the NHS. Cameron easily defeated Miliband today, and he should keep banging the same drum to election day
- 26 November 2014
Labour's dangerous games on the NHS
Populist and opportunistic to the core, Labour is playing a dishonest and dangerous game with the NHS that could easily backfire on them. Their running of the NHS has been worse than the government's
- 22 October 2014
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