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	date	03/09/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	NHS: Cybersecurity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what changes have been made to NHS (a) IT systems and (b) cyber security since the cyber attack in May 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
	tabling member printed	Sir David Crausby
	uin	169018
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The National Health Service is putting in place robust measures to protect IT systems against cyber-attacks. Since May 2017 the Government has invested £60 million to support NHS providers to improve their security position, with a further £150 million pledged up until 2021 to improve the NHS’s resilience against attacks.</p><p><br> The Department published its progress report in February 2018 entitled ‘Securing cyber resilience in health and care: progress update’. The report is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/securing-cyber-resilience-in-health-and-care-progress-update" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/securing-cyber-resilience-in-health-and-care-progress-update</a></p><p> </p><p>Key actions taken since February 2018 include:</p><p>- signing a Windows 10 licensing agreement with Microsoft which will allow local NHS organisations to save money, reduce potential vulnerabilities and help increase cyber resilience;</p><p>- enhancing the capability of the Cyber Security Operations Centre boosting the national capability to prevent, detect and respond to cyber-attacks through the procurement of IBM as a specialist partner;</p><p>- launching the Data Security and Protection Toolkit which provides an accessible dashboard enabling trusts to track their progress in meeting the 10 Data Security Standards;</p><p>- agreeing plans to implement the recommendations of the Chief Information Officer for Health and Care’s review of the May 2017 WannaCry attack;</p><p>- provided specialist face to face security training (System Security Certified Practitioner - SSCP) for over 100 staff; and</p><p>- in May 2018 the Network and Information Security Regulations came into force which requires operators of essential services (including some NHS healthcare providers) to put appropriate security measures in place and to report significant incidents that occur.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/09/2018 10:56:06 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

964565

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has any targets to increase the availability of mental health care training opportunities.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
	tabling member printed	Sir David Crausby
	uin	169011
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government asked Health Education England (HEE) to work across all health bodies to develop a Mental Health Workforce plan, which was published in July 2017. ‘Stepping forward to 2020/21: The mental health workforce plan for England’ sets out concrete steps to deliver 21,000 new posts (professional and allied) across the mental health system, with the expectation that 19,000 of these places will be filled by staff employed directly by the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>The document is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://hee.nhs.uk/our-work/mental-health" target="_blank">https://hee.nhs.uk/our-work/mental-health</a></p><p> </p><p>Health Education England will take this plan into account as it continues to commission mental health care training for professions such as clinical psychology, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) professionals, general psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry and forensic psychiatry.</p><p> </p><p>The expansion target for adult IAPT professionals is 4,500 between 2016 and 2021. For children and young people’s IAPT professionals, HEE will recruit and train 1,700 new professionals and train 3,400 existing NHS staff between 2016 and 2021.</p><p> </p><p>Across the NHS, there will be an extra 10,000 training places for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals by 2020.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/09/2018 10:39:52 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby