at the nhs.f companies by somebody doing a big boost to see what they can get. do we have any idea of the sense about how many of these attacks might be in a year? 0ur these attacks might be in a year? our last guest was alluding to the fa ct our last guest was alluding to the fact that some companies might pay up fact that some companies might pay up and never tell anyone, not reported. hard to put a number on it, but in the time i have been reporting on things that the bbc, this has come up time and time again where companies have fallen victim to this. there was one in america where government computers, 1000 government computers, got infected and he said at the time it was going back 25 years, because they had go back 25 years, because they had go back to pen and paper, they could and emergency services calls, because we take so much on computers now. they had to go back to pen and paper, it took the county in ohio days to sort it out, so hopefully the nhs can do is upping a bit quicker. than

that is nhs digital, the division of the nhs which handles technology issues.et more on this now with our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones. you have seen a you have seen a screen you have seen a screen grab of the message coming up when health service workers try to get into their computers? it is too early to say what is behind this attack. but it appears to be run somewhere, when malicious software is sent to computers, taking computers in perhaps old software. what it does, it locks their files and then up p°p5 it locks their files and then up pops a message on your screen saying we have all your files locked and this is incredibly valuable data, we can unlock them, but you have to send money. several people have contacted us, including a london gp to say when they have tried to log onto the system, this kind of message has up. saying your files are encrypted, locked and you will have to pay a certain amount of money to get them unlocked. it is the most common tactic of cyber criminals. it has caused huge concern across the world. hospitals have b

this was not targeted at the nhs.ional attack on the number of countries and organisations have been affected. the national cyber security centre is working closely with nhs digital to ensure they support the organisations concerned and protect patient safety. we are not aware of any evidence that patient‘s data has been compromised. of course it is important that we have set up the national cyber security centre and they are able to work with the nhs organisations concerned to ensure that they are supported and that patient safety is protected. nhs england is urging patience to only go to hospital if they really have to do following the attack. a plea came from a doctor responsible for the london area. what we are saying is use the nhs as you normally would if you have an urgent need, so if you need to call an ambulance or attend any because you have an emergency order urgently you should go. urgent medical care is being provided as normal. what problems are we likely to see over the weekend? all trusts have business

at the moment it is nhs england affected. ba rts, moment it is nhs england affected.erbyshire, lots of parts of the cou ntry affected derbyshire, lots of parts of the country affected and lots of gp surgeries and hospitals. quite a lot going on this afternoon. we have got a lot of cloud, outbreaks of rain. it is fairly complicated on the satellite. northern scotland doing well, the best of the sunshine and the highest temperatures but elsewhere cloud, rain, showers. overnight we will see the showers becoming fewer and further between particularly across england and wales. some outbreaks of rain continuing in solon. wetter weather for a rain continuing in solon. wetter weatherfor a time rain continuing in solon. wetter weather for a time across northern england. persistent for a time. weather for a time across northern england. persistent fora time. it is going to be pretty grey in the eastern side of scotland, extensive low cloud. most places holding up in double figures overnight. the start of the weekend and fairly quiet first thing across the southern counties, pat

use the nhs normally, if you need to contact the nhs, do so.there is a change in procedure, the nhs will make sure that you go to the right place. what procedures were in place to prevent an incident? all nhs organisations, nhs trusts hospitals, need to have in place business continuity plans which anticipate just the sort of event. they are tested on an annual basis. hospitals were putting those plans into effect today. the national crime agent c says it is employing all over it and covert means to establish who was behind this attack. daniel sandford reports. the cyber attack which wreaked such chaos in britain's health service was a global assault, affecting russia west of all but also countries as far apart as the us, australia and japan. the dish agencies tackling it said a complex international investigation would be needed to catch the culprits. we haven't identified the culprit at this time but we are deploying all means available to us and we have a number of lines of enquiry. it is important that we pursue those quickly so we can reas

theresa may says the nhs was not being targeted. this was not targeted at the nhs.is an international attack and a number of countries and organisations have been in effect did. —— affected. organisations in more than 70 countries have reported infections by the large ransomware campaign. president trump's spokesperson refuses to be drawn on whether the president recorded conversations with the former fbi directorjames comey. the latest on the ransomware attack. it hit nhs trust and we talk about a transition from olympian to transform on. —— trans—woman. the nhs has fallen victim to a major cyber attack. 39 hospital trusts and gp's in scotland and across england have had to cancel routine operations, send patients home and divert ambulances. the nhs says its services have been targeted by a ransomware attack, which means nhs data is, in effect, being held hostage by hackers demanding money. dozens of other facilities have shut down their email and computer systems as a precaution. the scale of the cyber attack on the nhs is unprecedented. it's been declared a major

the nhs in crisis.ffice, the public spending watchdog has warned by 2020 they believe there will be £56 billion black hole in the nhs. theresa may is promising what she says would be the biggest expansion of workers' rights by any conservative government, if the party retains power. mrs may has been on the campaign trail in 0xfordshire this morning. here is she is outlining the policies. what we're doing today is announcing the biggest ever enhancement of workers' rights by a conservative government. yes, there are various elements to this. we are committing the national living wage will continue to rise in line with median earnings. people will be able to request time off to care for a relative. we want to support and encourage return ships. i have been today date a fantastic organisation tech pixies, helping women who had taken out of the workplace, getting back, and giving skills. this is what we want to see, perhaps setting of the business. vicky young has been the prime minister in abingdon. what h

i totally believe in the nhs. iwant of people. i totally believe in the nhs.as a locum for the last five years, but that's not me, i want to be at the heart of it properly. sam, as a nurse who is still relatively new what, do you see? i see lots of nurses working very ha rd see? i see lots of nurses working very hard and in extremely difficult conditions. we've never felt this busy. we a constantly looking for beds. often we're having to nurse our sickest patients in really ib appropriate places, that might be in a&e, ina appropriate places, that might be in a&e, in a theatre environment or on the ward and often patients are moved hotsjust because there aren't enough intensive care beds for them in their hospital. would you consider voting to take part in industrial action, sam?|j consider voting to take part in industrial action, sam? i think, every nurse that i know will take a sharp intake of breath. it won't be particularly palatable for them. but we're being forced into a corner that we can't get out of. we've tried negotiating. we've tried telling people

we need to ensure that the nhs remains robust, and i would like to commend the work that nhs staff havergeries are going to continue to run smoothly. in fact, 9796 continue to run smoothly. in fact, 97% of the nhs trusts and hospitals and doctors are working as normal. so the response has been very good, and that is due to the good work of the staff and the resilience that was already put in place. this has been an international attack, it has impacted 100 countries and it has affected our nhs, but also some elements of industry. we think we have the right preparedness in place and also the right plans going forward over the next few days to ensure that we limit its impact going forward. 0ur correspondentjudith moritz is in wigan. what are you hearing? they have been affected to a certain extent here, but the have shut things down to ensure that it would not progress further. the chief of the nhs trust is with me now. take me back to when he first noticed the problem. just before 2pm yesterday afternoon, we got the first notification of the ransomwa re appearing got the first notificati

various nhs experts in recent weeks as the nhs experts in recent weeks as the nhs needs an extra 10 billionn return. we are producing even tougher waiting lists in the future, tougher standards. we are saying people need to be moved out of hospitals as quickly as possible. a new tougher standard on a end to it and when you have 26,000 people waiting for cancer treatment, we are saying that‘s not good enough. we want people to get their cancer treatment not in two months but four weeks. big money going into the nhs but in return we are asking for tougher standards of care because we believe patients receive the very best. cancer patients to be dealt with in four weeks. what is your pledge for amd waiting lists. -- ame. we believe it means treating an extra 1 million patients there. we wa nt an extra 1 million patients there. we want to go one step further. the most serious cases in a&e, you want to see them treated in one hour. by putting the money in, we think you can meet the existing targets which are being met under the tories but we wa nt are being met under the tories but we want to se

the nhs is a huge network, the world's largest health it network, and over 80% of the nhs was unaffected the other companies and institutions affected include fedex, renault in france, german railways, spanish telecoms and nissan. the malicious software was first discovered on friday, released by hackers whose identity is still unknown, and it spread rapidly around the world. victims were faced with this message, that they were locked out of their computers and would have to pay a ransom to regain access. it only works on computers which were not updated and secured. today the organisation responsible for britain's cyber security said government had issued warnings but institutions needed to do more. there's a lot of information out there about vulnerabilities and there's a lot of information out about how to defend against them. my message to all organisations is to go and find out what those basic steps are that you can do to raise your defences, and implement them. the race is on to track down those responsible. one company who works with law enforcement say it is a question of waitin

if the nhs cannot a nswer availability.ergency phone calls, we are not worried about patient data at that point, we are worried about critical national infrastructure. so when i hear people saying you have just got back up, this infection is massive and it will go on for weeks and months, you will see. what does this say about where we are going? because everything is networked, everything about our lives. i don't know if you saw pictures of the flight know if you saw pictures of the flight boards that, i think, a spanish airport, it got as far as that. the message had come up saying, you have been encrypted. it really is hitting home now isn't it, it is not a hollywood film? as i was sitting in the studio whizzing through this interview i was thinking about what i should say, and the reality is, this is not a drill. -- and the reality is, this is not a drill. —— waiting for this interview. it is impacting every industry, and organisations need to protect their infrastructure, thinking that they can stop these things, they n

the nhs is a huge network, the world's largest health it network, and over 80% of the nhs was unaffected, officials gathered for the cabinet emergency committee, cobra, including the head of the national cyber security centre. he says guidance was issued before this attack, but acknowledged people needed to act on such warnings. there is a lot of information out there about vulnerabilities, and there is a lot of information out there about how to defend against them. my message to all organisations is go and find out what those basic steps are you can do to raise your defences, and go and implement them. the malicious software was first detected on friday, and it spread rapidly around the world, affecting computers which were not updated and secured. some of the other companies and institutions hit include fedex, renault in france, german railways, spanish telecoms and nissan. victims were faced with this message — that they were locked out of their computers and would have to pay a ransom to regain access. a race is under way to track down those responsible. one company who works with l

in the nhs and social care.overnment reaction to it, the conservative reaction i should say in this election campaign is it needs a strong economy to deliver at the money to pay out the staff in the money to pay out the staff in the public sector but we haven't heard yet for the parties want to do about funding for the nhs. you say you're cancelling three hip or knee operations a week. why? the reason we're doing this because we don't have beds availablement to bring a patient in safely for an operation, you not only need to have the staff available to do the operation, you need to recover them appropriately afterwards for to or three or however many days it takes. the beds have been cut year upon yearin the beds have been cut year upon year in the nhs. i wanted to go back to what you said about staff shortages. there is a massive problem with morale in the nhs. "emblem saith maralaafihafifi isa "emblem saith maralaafihafifi is a recruitment and retention there is a recruitment and retention problem at the moment and

in the uk, that happens to be the case with a number of nhs trusts.ly one in five were affected, because the others had upgraded. some other computer systems may also have been affected. 0fficials i have spoken to suggest they haven't seen a significant new attack at the moment. they have not seen a new wave or a new variant. moment. they have not seen a new wave or a new variant. what concerns them is there could be a number of machines out there which have been affected with this dangerous piece of software and where it hasn't appeared yet on their systems because they haven't switched it on since friday. so there is a risk on monday it could affect their systems and that could be a significant number. but nobody is sure how many that will be. that be why are a lot of people will be taking a deep breath. some other news today: nicola sturgeon has admitted numeracy, and literacy, have got worse in scottish schools. a survey last week showed less than half of 13 and 14—year—old pupils were performing well in writing. nicola sturgeon told the andrew ma

the nhs backed up?is ra nsomwa re is about kind of incident, and this ransomware is about getting money off people to access data. if those files are backed up that attack is worthless, because people can download the backed up information and work from that, so i hope the a nswer and work from that, so i hope the answer is yes was the those of the instructions everyone has received in the past and that is good cyber defence. but i expect and we will find out in the next few days if there are any holes in that. people would be hoping for reassurance from the home secretary regarding the question. the information you are seething at the moment is that it may be that some of these hospital trusts do not have the details of patients backed up, is that my understanding? i don't have that information, but what i can say, all of the nhs trusts have been asked to review their data overnight. jeremy hunt is in touch with them and they are working with the national cyber security centre. there may be lessons to

nhs england has launched an investigation. the gentleman just inside the door said that all the computers had gone down and we are not sure that the doctors can see you for whatever reason. if it is x—rays, breakages or whatever, they are going to send you home. jeremy corbyn says the war on terror has not worked — military intervention has become "almost routine" and fresh thinking is needed. the philosophy of bomb first, talk later to security has failed. to persist with it as the conservative government has made clear it's determined to do is a recipe for increasing not reducing threats and security. a coroner rules that 14—year—old nasar ahmed died as a result of an allergic reaction to his school lunch — his mother says he could have been saved. thousands ofjellyfish have washed up on beaches in wales in what conservationists have described as a "mega swarm". it's 7:00pm. our top story: the national health service says it is responding to a major cyber attack which has affected hospitals and doctors surgeries across engla

this afternoon, we heard it was notjust nhs it.oon, we heard it was not just nhs organisations it. this afternoon, we heard it was notjust nhs organisations who have been victims of this cyber attack. mane, the car—makers in the north—east of england have also been targeted. —— nissan, the car—makers. richard, thank you. with me now is a technology expert, chris fox. is this still spreading? a bit of code that, if activated, would stop it spreading, has been found. there was a website address, a very long one that had been bashed out on a keyboard, but it was not registered to anyone. it is suspected that it was put in there to stop people from analysing the malwa re, was put in there to stop people from analysing the malware, so every time the virus ran, it was checking this website address which did not exist, and if the computer came back and said, now it does exist, then someone said, now it does exist, then someone trying to get to the bottom of it would shut it off and not be able to get any further. but they have actually sh

come from the nhs incident director.w times in the last 72 hours. she says the nhs continued to treat patients over the weekend and we have been working with 47 organisations providing with emergency care. most have found ways of working around this, but seven including saint barts hospital in london have been asking for extra support. you should still attend hospital and your gp surgery if you have an appointment this week unless you are told not to. but they do ask eve ryo ne you are told not to. but they do ask everyone is patient with staff as they try to cope. we will find out how this story is covered in tomorrow for ‘s front pages. at 10:30 and 11:30pm this evening in the papers — our guests joining me tonight are rob merrick, deputy political editor at the independent and the broadcaster and author, natalie haynes. nurses are promising a summer of protest across the uk and possible industrial action. members of the royal college of nursing at their annual conference in liverpool are calling on the next government

nhs england have declared affected. nhs england have declared a major incident.ide the cyber security centre. the gentleman just inside the door said all the computers have gone down and when not sure whether all the doctors can see you for whatever reason. if it's x—rays or breakages or whatever, they're going to send you home. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has outlined his defence policy, insisting he isn't a pacifist and would order the use of military action, but only as a last resort. the velocity -- the philosophy of one first, talk later asa philosophy of one first, talk later as a policy has failed. it is a recipe for increasing not reducing threats to security. a coroner has called for changes in the way schools careful peoples with allergies after concluding that an adrenaline injection might

labour has committed more money to the nhs.throughout the general election campaign we're going to be taking an in—depth look at some of the essential topics and hearing from our specialist editors. today, we're focusing on the economy. our economics editor kamal ahmed has been assessing what the main issues are. it was james carville, bill clinton's election adviser, who, when asked what won elections, had a pretty simple answer — "it's the economy, stupid," he said. and that's probably still true today. i think for voters, there are big issues around living standards, and that income squeeze, which have pretty much been with us since 2008 and the financial crisis. the problem for politicians is that issues like that are not easy to solve — there are no easy headlines. the political parties may trade promises on taxes, on pensions, on energy price caps, on making an economy which works for all, and notjust for the privileged few. yes, those are important issues, but there is a big issue of substance which underlines all of the

the nhs.was that the nhs was being plundered and broken up, if mrs may won the election. this is co re mrs may won the election. this is core territory for the labour party when it comes to an election, citing the nhs as their big issue to galvanise and motivate their own supporters. mrs may, on the other hand, taking a very untory approach, coming forward with a package of employment rights, which has delighted some and alarmed others in the business community, who fear it will mean more red tape, trying to reach out beyond her natural supporters. i think it tells us about the state of the two campaigns, with four weeks to go. labour on the defensive, if the polls are to be believed, trying to shore up their core vote. mrs may, on the other hand, confident, with some tories even suggesting a possible landslide, now trying to reach out well beyond traditional tory voters. i think it shows how both campaigns are focused around the individual leaders. jeremy corbyn with his long—standing views o

use the nhs normally, if you need to contact the nhs, do so. a change in procedure, the nhs will make sure that you go to the right place. what procedures were in place to prevent an incident? all nhs organisations, nhs trusts hospitals, need to have in place business continuity plans which anticipate just the sort of event. they are tested on an annual basis. hospitals were putting those plans into effect today. with me is krishna chinthapalli, a neurology registar at the national hospital for neurology and neurosurgery in london. his hospital was not affected by the cyber attack. welcome. you have been working on an article which was published only on thursday, the day before this happened. tellers about that?” wrote this article because i thought it was inevitable that hospitals would suffer an attack this year in this country, and that is because of looking at trends. there was a notable incident last february in america where a hospital was subjected to ra nsomwa re america where a hospital was subjected to ransomware for a week or two wee

the nhs is the victim of a massive cyber attack. the jenin the nhs is the victim of a massive cyber attack. thejenin hospital trusts and gp surgeries acted. serious disruption as angus soderberg, operations and patients sent home. it is a heinous crime because we are living lives at risk? all the paperwork on paper and systems were down. the cyber attack isa systems were down. the cyber attack is a form of ransom ware demanding hospitals play to restore their it systems. also tonight. jeremy corbyn insists he's no pacifist, while theresa may accuses him of deserting patriotic working—class people. the schoolboy who died after an allergic reaction. a coroner says staff could have saved his life. and, donald trump versus his former fbi director. did the president secretly record their conversations? his spokesperson won't be drawn. the president has nothing further to add on that. the president has no further comment on this. for the third time, there is nothing further to add on that. chelsea clinch the premier league title. in anton

the daily mail sent some hackers cripple the nhs. operations we re hackers cripple the nhs.perations were cancelled, ambulances had to be diverted, but it seems like a lot of staff responded incredibly fast to try to mitigate and reduce a lot of the impact it could have had. that is exactly it. there seems to have been a plan, a good contingency plan in place and it seems to have worked. i think what is not quite clear, it is not even clear to the government yet, for and what of the knock—on effects are into next week. i think people will be very tolerant and patient over the course of the weekend, but we will have to see when we get a monday or tuesday how convincingly this system has coped and how well the government answers the questions. why were warnings ignored? the questions. why were warnings ignored 7 does the the questions. why were warnings ignored? does the article explain what those warnings were coming from? i am not sure what those warnings were coming from? iam not sure it what those warnings were coming from? i am not sure it does. it is not in the paper. th

we would say use the nhs normally — if you need to contact the nhs, do so.hange in procedure, the nhs will make sure you go to the right place. and what systems were in place, if any, to prevent an incident? well all nhs organisations, nhs trusts hospitals, need to have in place business continuity plans, which anticipate just this sort of event. and they are tested on an annual basis. so hospitals will be putting those plans into effect today. dr anne rainsberry from the nhs. the national crime agency says it's employing all "overt and covert means" available to it, to establish who was behind the cyber attack that's hit the nhs and organisations in almost 100 other countries. daniel sandford reports. the cyber attack which wreaked such chaos in britain's health service was a global assault, affecting russia worst of all but also countries as far apart as the us, australia, and japan. this evening, the two british agencies tackling it said a complex international investigation would be needed to catch the culprits. we haven't identified the offenders at thi

different nhs trusts to this potential problem ?” different nhs trusts to this potential problem?ave the fa ct cultural problem here. we have the fact they used to be a big, centralised process for running it in the nhs which was far more localised so you have individual trusts making their own decisions. they may see these warnings, and nhs digital says it sent out a warning in april to it staff. they may see these warnings but they have very fragmented computer systems, with some old computers and all mri scanners for example, expensive pieces of equipment which are reliant on old operating systems. so they found it difficult to make the decisions on whether to update or not. one person involved has also told me that cost was a big issue, and in the hospital when you have got to decide between buying new incubators and spending more money on cyber security, cyber security just isn't very sexy. banks. -- thanks. joining me now via webcam is angus marshall, lecturer in cyber security at the university of york. it may have not have been sexy before, but it is now, everybody is talk

, £7.5 billion a yearfor the nhs additional money for the nhs, £7.5 billion a year for the nhs and socialndustrial action. that has never happened before. that would be unprecedented. i am joined happened before. that would be unprecedented. iam joined by happened before. that would be unprecedented. i am joined by the chief executive of the rcn, janet davies. given what you have heard today, a lot of extra money, what is the priority for you in terms of where that money goes? yes, what we have heard this week, actually for the whole week, is all about getting safe and effective care for patients and population. a number of things, first of all, having the right level of service, and for nurses, making sure we have safe staffing levels, that we have the future of students funded, how we fund future nurses, and also scrapping that pay cap which is creating so much difficulty for nurses, and preventing what they believe is doing the job as best they can. a lot of promises today, politicians often make promises. how confident are you that anybody will actually deliver the sort of change you

seven nhs trusts are still having problems following the cyber—attack.he head of europol says the attack was on an unprecedented scale and could still claim more victims. the slow down of the infection rate over friday night after a temporary fix around it has now been overcome by a second variation of it the criminals have released so the numbers are going up. nurses vote overwhelmingly in favour of a "summer of protest" over pay. emmanuel macron says france is on the verge of a ‘great renaissance' as he becomes the country's youngest president. chancellor merkel‘s christian democrats unseat rival social democrats in germany's most populous state. also in the next hour...meet the world's oldest skydiver. d—day veteran verdun hayes took to the skies with ten members of his family at 101—years—old. and michael mcintyre picks up best entertainment performance at the bafta tv awards. and the travel show goes to colombia to explore the legacy of one of its most controversial criminals. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the head of the european union's la

it is certainly good news that the nhs is managing to get things back up nhs is managing to get thingsey have patched the security flaw, because we now know that the way that this was spreading was through a known vulnerability in windows operating systems that had been patched by microsoft but not necessarily every company had installed that patch. it is the same when you update your phone, and another update, it is a lwa ys phone, and another update, it is always a good idea to update the security first of all. windows also issued a patch for xp, which had not been updated for three years. we have heard from security researchers that there are a new strains of the worm, the bit that is spreading the ra nsomwa re, worm, the bit that is spreading the ransomware, which worm, the bit that is spreading the ra nsomwa re, which could worm, the bit that is spreading the ransomware, which could mean that this continues to spread. white .it . it looks like good news here in britain, but some 100 countries where are affected. one antivirus company, tier, said that they had had 71,000 detections

this is about taking some of the stress off the nhs. it requires us the stress off the nhs. after carers in relation to this. there will be people watching this now you have a family member, who may have been through it in the past, or it's an ongoing situation. what is the advice? who do they talk to? who do they turn to for advice? at moment, again, that will depend throughout the country. sometimes they might turn to a gb, sometimes a hospice, sometimes a care co—ordination service —— gp. but if you want to ca re service —— gp. but if you want to care for somebody at home, start by talking to whoever your healthcare tea m talking to whoever your healthcare team is, people in charge of the person ‘s care. say that this is something you might be interested in doing. thank you so much for talking to us. very interesting subject. and thank you as well to zilla, who was talking about her experience with her husband. thank you. the headlines are coming up. stay with us. hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and sally nugent. coming up before 8:00, helen will have the weat

i think the nhs will loom large in this campaign.o be as much of a lightning conductor issue as they thought. i think health and education and things like social care will be very important. social care i agree with you. in the copeland by—election, the labour seat held by them for decades, labour ran very tough scare stories about the local hospital and the tories still won. i think that the tories still won. i think that the leadership issue and also the nuclear issue. i think there's a chance that labour have overplayed this card and made it too political. true, but there is also a lot of public sympathy for... when you have stories of nurses writing to the prime minister talking about their pay, when you hear that nurses have got to go to payday loan companies and to food banks, begging the prime minister that they are in poverty, thatis minister that they are in poverty, that is very emotive. it is interesting that you brought that up because i've put this to a party spokesman from labour and the conservatives. i said, party spo

this was the message that popped up on countless computers across the nhs.ys the system is locked. and no files can be accessed until they ransom is paid. the cyber attack had an immediate effect on patient services. this man's heart operation in london was cancelled. i was all cannulaed up. i've been shaved down the front because they were going to open me up. my arms have been shaved. i was ready to go, nil by mouth. as well as hospitals in england, about half of the health boards in scotland have been affected in some way. but there have been no cyber attacks on health services in wales or northern ireland. one theory is that the nhs may have been vulnerable because it was using old computer systems that did not have the latest updates. this kind of sustained, wide attack on an organisation does force it to look at its it update regime, making sure not only are its operating systems up to scratch, but its protective regimes are up to scratch. i think it is probably worth the nhs and national cyber security centre looking at that to make sure there were no

the nhs is very much in the recovery phase.here is a great deal of work ongoing to get systems back to normal and every effort is being made to ensure any impact on patient care is kept to a minimum. a small number of trusts are said to still need help coping with the aftermath of cyber attack. some ambulances are being diverted to other hospitals and getting the it system other hospitals and getting the it syste m u p other hospitals and getting the it system up and running again is proving to be a challenge. at york hospital, they say while they contained the virus it could take a while before they restore non—urgent services. 2,000 pcs have been taken out of commission. to get 2,000 pcs back in commission will take a few days but we will be working round—the—clock to do that as fast as we can. at wigan, staff have been working flat out to get systems up and running normally. i'm concerned because we don't know what we will find on monday morning. i think we've got sufficient understanding of the nature of the problem that we

nchts well the sfris nhs leaders in at one of the affected trusts?ll the sfris nhs leaders in england and scotland is, if you have an appointment tomorrow or planned surgery an appointment tomorrow or planned surgery and haven't heard to the contrary go along. those worst—affected a re contrary go along. those worst—affected are still saying — go along, we think he can go ahead with your appointment. they have managed to sort things out with back—up records. slightly confusingly at least one hospital has put out a message in its area saying — go online and check or phone, which might cause confusion. then you have the gp practices caught up in all this. their systems were shut down on friday. what will happen when they try to open them up tomorrow morning? they are saying come along to your apolybut at least one practice has told patients — we won't be —— —— to your appointment but at least one practice has told patients we might not be able to get hold of your records. there there was a backlog of procedures cancelled on friday and i think the whole

the nhs is a huge network, the world's largest health it network, and over 80% of the nhs was unaffectedthered for the cabinet emergency committee, cobra, including the head of the national cyber security centre. he says guidance was issued before this attack, but acknowledged people needed to act on such warnings. there is a lot of information out there about vulnerabilities, and there is a lot of information out there about how to defend against them. my message to all organisations is go and find out what those basic steps are you can do to raise your defences, and go and implement them. the malicious software was first detected on friday, and it spread rapidly around the world, affecting computers which were not updated and secured. some of the other companies and institutions hit include fedex, renault in france, german railways, spanish telecoms and nissan. victims were faced with this message — that they were locked out of their computers and would have to pay a ransom to regain access. a race is under way to track down those responsible. 0ne company who works with law—enforcement

let's talk to nhs providers, because that's the body that represents the nhs trusts in england.for you tonight and if you are able to summarise for our viewers what your understanding is of the picture tonight? our understanding is that it's around 21 hospitals who have now been affected by the cyber attack up and down the country. we've also heard of gp practices and other parts of the health service that have been attacked, universities as well, and that this is the widespread attack across europe. this is part of a very big attack, i believe. just to reiterate, deduce a 41 hospitals? 21. but you are saying other areas are affected as well? we have heard that gps, pharmacies and universities are all also affected. the important thing to remember here is that trusts will be working absolutely flat out to resolve this as quickly as they can. they will deal with this as they deal with any other incident, which is to be straight on it operationally, to make sure they can get their systems up make sure they can get their systems up and running as speedily as possible and they will

the disruption to the nhs as part of a global situation.yber attack throughout an unprecedented level, according to europol. it is thought as many as 100 countries have been hit. 45 nhs organisations have been hit in the uk, including 11 of scotland's health boards. the nhs is in the coverage face. there is a great deal of work to get systems back to normal. every effort is being made to make sure any impact on patient ca re to make sure any impact on patient care is kept to an absolute minimum. it is windows operating systems that are being hit. they attack locks users systems before demanding money. it is believed the nhs is particularly vulnerable because of its ageing it systems. they have been moved to the mac asked to move from windows xp, the secretary of state has been clear in that direction. people do not move as quickly as you would like any situations but there will be lessons to be learned from this sort of example. experts say it is vital technology is up—to—date. example. experts say it is vital technology is up-to-date. this

seven nhs trusts remain affected by the cyber attack.re are fears that monday, for many the start of the working week, could reveal there are more victims. here's our technology correspondent, theo leggett. 0perations cancelled and appointments delayed — friday's cyber attack affected nhs organisations throughout england and scotland. systems at some hospitals like the royal london are still down. other patients have told me their operations have had to be cancelled, but i must say, i don't blame the staff in any way. it's not theirfault and i don't blame the it people. they are just fighting a battle that just goes on and on. the crisis may not be over. the head of europe's policing agency, europol, says there could be a new wave of infections when people return to work tomorrow morning, and he says the size of the attack is deeply disturbing. we've never seen anything like this, unprecedented in its scale. we are seeing over 200,000 victims in over 150 countries, so clearly a global phenomena. the government insists it takes cyber secu

in a civilised country, the nhs has to do better for cancer patients. than 62 days for treatment, they deserve much, much better. according to the health foundation think tank, waiting times for key services in england were the worst in five years. 26,000 patients had to wait longer than the two month target to start cancer treatment. that compares with 14,300 in 2011-12. the number waiting more than the four—hour target for being treated or assessed in a&e was 2.5 million, a sharp increase on the 725,000 with long waits five years before. against a backdrop of rising patient numbers and stretched resources, it's getting harderfor the nhs in england to hit its key performance targets, which are supposed to provide reassurance of high quality care for patients. more and more people are needing to use the nhs. that's not new and it's not unexpected. as a population we're getting older, there are more of us and our health needs are more complicated. but demand on the nhs has historically risen by around 4% per year whereas, from 2009—10, funding has only r

so when has the nhs ever had enough money? maybe neverin nhs ever had enough money?ties all stress their commitment to the nhs, they know it is popular and that preserving the nhs and taking it for what it is is important, rated as the top issue in one poll ahead of immigration, brexit and the economy. a large part of the manifestos was devoted to it. looking at the spending plans, it is the core of what is offered. it gets, located. the lib dems say they will put 1p on income tax raising £6 billion for health and social care. they want a ring fenced health and social care tax. labour's plans for a 7.5 ileum per year come from higher taxation, corporation tax and other sources. the conservatives said they want 8 billion more in 2022 then when they're now, so they get to it more gradually and they don't have a specific tax plan is earmarked for the money, they say they can deliver it from economic growth. do you think better management would help the nhs? a lot of people might say the nhs? a lot of people might say the money needs to go into front—line staff but it is

if the nhs cannot a nswer availability.ergency phone calls, we are not worried about the patient data at that point, we are worried about critical national infrastructure. i worry when people say, do not worry, you have back—ups, this will go on for weeks and months after this. with me is our technology correspondent chris foxx. he had been very busy. as we have just been hearing there, the effects will continue for weeks, not months. we seem to be over the worst of it. certainly good news that the nhs is getting things back up and running, hopefully they have patched the security flaw, because we now know that this was spreading partly to a known vulnerability in windows systems which had been patched by microsoft, but not every company had installed that patch. updates are a lwa ys installed that patch. updates are always good to do. crucially they haveissued always good to do. crucially they have issued a patch for a windows xp, to close this particular hole as well. it. it from spreading further. this could continue to

considering the strain the nhs is under it has been holding up the nhs is under it has been holding upof targets, do health professionals perceive the targets as rules effectively imposed by politicians and therefore they don't have a clinicaljustification 01’ don't have a clinicaljustification or do they regard them as targets that are valuable in terms of treatment of patients? it will be mixed. targets are a valuable thing for patients. nobody wants patients to wait very long. they deteriorate and the costs may be grated to be nhs in hard terms. there is genuine a cce pta nce nhs in hard terms. there is genuine acceptance for those targets. what the real picture is, the nhs is under incredible strain because of the squeeze on finances. it is not just for the national health service but services cut has an effect more on older people who use amd ‘s services more in particular. government says it is spending more money than ever before. your point is that is fine but if demand goes up, in realterms, coupled is that is fine but if demand goes up, in real terms, coupled with things like

questions are being asked about whether nhs it security was adequate.ts are still using an outdated and unprotecting operating system, windows xp. ministers said there had been investment. we are spending around £50 million on the nhs cyber systems to improve their security. we have encouraged the nhs trusts to reduce their exposure to the weakest system, the windows xp. only 5%, less than 5% of the trusts actually use that system any more. york hospital's computers were affected but managers say they weren't using the old system and they had invested in security patches to protect against viruses we are almost applying patches based on best advice on a weekly basis, supplied by our providers. we are working with the biggest brains in the industry. we run a large system. we take our responsibilities really seriously. labour has written to the health secretary, jeremy hunt, calling for a detailed explanation and today the party went on the attack. the government's handling of this crisis has been chaotic. we have long warned that the government's attitud

by nhs.tastrophic it failures by nhs. only a few years ago they scrapped that scheme to digitise everything that cost the taxpayer £10 billion. it seems that anything they touch with regards to it turns to rot. equally i think people are quite sympathetic with the actual front line staff that had to deal with this, and also probably people look at their own behaviour with their own cyber security reflect that actually will probably not all as digital gent as we could be. but we run nhs trusts. -- not as diligent as we could be. some of these trusts apparently, i was talking to a cyber expert tonight, they have been encouraged to update their systems for several years also have refused to do so because they are used to the system may have and it works for them. this is the point. if governments are not telling the these trusts the risks that they are running. let me declare an interest right away. i have had my e—mail account hacked in re ce nt have had my e—mail account hacked in recent weeks

many people wa nt to far more into the nhs.t to make it easier for them. you have held a poll of your members to determine whether or not there would be enough support for strike action. could you tell us what support that have? we can not at the moment. we tell a medicine nine o'clock and it is important for us that the people have taken part in a poll hear the news first and they hear it from us so there will be an announcement at nine o'clock this morning. so there will be an announcement at nine o'clock this morninglj so there will be an announcement at nine o'clock this morning. ijust a while i have you, i would like to talk about the cyber attack on the nhs because it is something that will affected your members, people struggling to do theirjob because of the attack on the systems. what information do you have from your staff? how badly affected were they? they say it has been difficult but the thing about nurses is that they can carry on with their work and keep our patients safe and make sure they are well cared for. i

the nhs has to take ca re of this situation? the nhs has to take care of its cyber security.warnings were given that it had to be up—to—date. 150 countries are involved in this and 200,000 victims, according to europe poll. we take cyber security very seriously. we setup the new national cyber security centre which has been working with the nhs and with staff in the nhs to ensure that patient ca re in the nhs to ensure that patient care has been compromised. let's talk about brexit. bmw are building the mini at cowley around the corner. they are not committing to building the electric mini until they know what is going to happen in they know what is going to happen in the future. companies like bmw will be looking for the government to produce a good deal for the uk so we haveis produce a good deal for the uk so we have is free and frictionless trade across borders with dev. we have planned to go into those negotiations working for a comp rents of free trade agreement. we want to make sure that the automotive sector which is important here and in other parts of the uk is comp

just the nhs and the trust made a lot of good preparationsjust in the nhs and the trust made a lot ofons just in case. the reason so many patients were u naffected reason so many patients were unaffected is because they were ready for this and staff came in over the weekend to make sure patients were unaffected. capital budgets were raided for day—to—day spending which reduced the capacity of trusts to protect themselves and it equipment. this isn'tjust about the nhs and it indicates that it might notjust the nhs and it indicates that it might not just the the nhs and it indicates that it might notjust the about the nhs and it indicates that it might not just the about the the nhs and it indicates that it might notjust the about the type of equipment. this is an international attack that has affected some very sophisticated platforms. we have seenin sophisticated platforms. we have seen in the spain, manufacturing companies in spain and france. the real criminals here are the people who have begun this action and they are the people who should get the blame. in the uk it was the nhs w

and patients alike in the nhs.tem's dependency on computers and what needs to be done to prevent another meltdown. what happens going forward? there are those people that will have their appointments cancelled, and they will have to be rescheduled. you heard me talking to one lady in the report who could not make another appointment, going forward, because the system was not up and running and she was not able to do that. there is a lot of administration that will have to be done behind—the—scenes, in the coming few days at least, to get things caught up with each other again. there are still some way to go. things are a load better than they were on friday. you feel like they were on friday. you feel like the system is working again. but it is still one or two places where there is still a serious problem, but things are slowly getting back to normal. in some ways, it all going wrong on a friday, having saturday and sunday to try to get things back up and running again, has helped things today. the president of mi