NHS must ensure £21m cybersecurity fund is spent in the right places

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The NHS needs to invest in cyber defences that can adapt to changing threats, argues Malcolm Murphy

Following the unprecedented ransomware attacks on the NHS in May, the Government recently announced that it was to spend £21m on increasing the cybersecurity provisions for 27 major trauma centres ...

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