FOI request: cybersecurity spend and patient services
Dear Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust,
For each year (2020 – 2022), please confirm how many cyberattacks your Trust has suffered?
For each year (2020 – 2022), please confirm how many cyberattacks have resulted in the halting of or delay in delivery of care or services to patients?
For each year (2020-2022), please confirm:
The GBP (£) value of budget allocated to cybersecurity
What percentage of the Trust’s entire budget for the financial year was spent on cybersecurity?
How many times in the last 12 months have you audited your third-party suppliers’ cybersecurity measures?
Yours faithfully,
Ruth Walters
Dear Ruth Walters
Thank you for your request for information about Cybersecurity Spend and
Patient Services. Your request was received on 29/06/2023 and we are
dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) came into being on 1st
April 2006 and assumed responsibility for the services provided by both
the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) and Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust
(NCH).
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Dear Ruth Walters,
REF: Data Request: DR62608CT - FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION
REQUEST
Thank you for your request for information about Cyber Security Spend and
Patient Services. Your request was received on 29^th June 2023 and we are
dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) came into being on 1st
April 2006 and assumed responsibility for the services provided by both
the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) and Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust
(NCH).
We confirm that the Trust does hold the information falling within the
terms of your request.
On identifying the information requested it has become necessary to apply
a public interest test as required by the Freedom of Information Act. This
is where the Trust needs to balance the public interest in disclosing the
information against the public interest in withholding it. The Trust’s
Public Interest Test Panel will consider your request.
When a “qualified exemption” applies to the information and the public
interest test is engaged, the Act allows the time for response to be
longer than 20 working days, and a full response must be provided within
such time as is reasonable in all circumstances of the case. In this case,
we have not yet reached a decision on where the balance of public interest
lies.
In your case we estimate that it will take additional time to take a
decision on where the balance of the public interest lies. Therefore, we
plan to let you have a response by 13^th October 2023. If it appears that
it will take longer than this to reach a conclusion, we will keep you
informed.
The specific exemption(s) which apply in relation to your request is
Section 31(3); to refuse an answer based on the grounds that it could
compromise our security by divulging.
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above in any future communications.
If you are unhappy with the response you have received and wish to make an
appeal against our decision, you should write to
Head of Information Governance/Data Protection Officer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
ICT Services, Heathfield House
City Campus
Hucknall Road
Nottingham NG5 1PB
Or by email [1][Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust request email]
If you are unhappy with the overall service you have received and wish to
discuss your concerns or obtain details on how to complain, please
contact:
Patient Advice & Liaison Service
Telephone 0800 183 0204
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If, after exhausting our internal process, you are still unhappy with the
information received, you may write to:
The Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
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Cheshire, SK9 5AF
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Yours sincerely,
Information Governance Officer
Information Governance Team
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Dear Ruth Walters,
REF: DR8AT (FOI) - FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST
I am writing in response to your correspondence dated requesting
information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Your request for information has now been considered. The Trust's response
is provided in the attached document.
Kind regards,
Andrew Tait [1]A black and blue logo
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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
City Hospital campus | Hucknall Road | Nottingham | NG5 1PB | Tel: 0115 969 1169
QMC campus | Derby Road | Nottingham | NG7 2UH | Tel: 0115 924 9924
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