NHS issues open letter demanding improved cybersecurity standards from suppliers

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has outlined plans to proactively work with suppliers to improve cybersecurity resilience across the healthcare and social care system in an open letter issued on January 22.

The move follows the voluntary cybersecurity supply chain charter issued by NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC ) in response to the ‘endemic’ of ransomware attacks against health services. The charter published last year, introduced additional measures to help secure IT supply chains across sector.

“Cyberattacks are a persistent and system-wide risk across the UK, and the health and care sector is not exempt,” said the January open letter, jointly published by Phil Huggins, National CISO for health and care at the DHSC, and Mike Fell, executive director of National Cyber Operations for NHS England

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