Trust launches probe after cyber attack

One of the NHS’s least digitised teaching hospitals has been forced to carry out “a full forensic investigation” after a cyber attack last week, HSJ has learned.

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust said the incident occurred last Wednesday. It was unrelated to the Microsoft outage, which disrupted some NHS IT systems, mostly in general practice, at the end of last week, the trust said.

A trust spokesman told HSJ: “No patient systems are compromised, and [at] this point in the investigation, we do not have any evidence of compromise of patient data. However, the investigation is ongoing and is extremely complex.”

NNUH chief digital information officer Ed Prosser-Snelling said the attack had been “detected and terminated [and] all emergency care, elective and outpatient services at our hospitals are continuing to run as normal.”

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Source: HSJ (paywalled), 24 July 2024