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Boards must take their responsibility for cyber security more seriously

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Cyberattacks keep crippling NHS services not due to missing technology, but predictable board-level governance failures that leave known vulnerabilities unaddressed

The Synnovis ransomware attack in June 2024 cancelled 10,000 appointments and forced hospitals to rely on manual blood-test processing for weeks – cost: £32.7m. Seven years earlier, WannaCry paralysed 80 NHS trusts – cost: £92m.

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Source: HSJ, 21 November 2025

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