New plan by health department, HSE and NTPF aims to mitigate snowballing numbers waiting for treatment, exacerbated by pandemic

January Covid surge and last month’s cyberattack mean ‘certain’ delays for HSE’s plan to implement a centralised spending framework and tackle non-compliant expenditure

The end of Covid-19 is finally in sight but for our battered and beleaguered health service, a fresh round of problems is only beginning

The Cork manufacturing giant confirmed it was targeted by the same criminal gang that attacked the HSE

Minister of state says government spend on digital security is ‘many multiples’ of the €5 million allocated to NCSC this year

Failure to protect health infrastructure is literally a matter of life and death, as the HSE found out last week

Experts say the breach of the HSE’s information technology systems must act as a final warning for the state to prioritise cybersecurity defences. So what needs to be done, and how vulnerable is Ireland to another crippling cyber attack?

Last week’s ransomware attack makes it clear that taxpayer money would be better spent in future on protecting our systems rather than restoring them

The attack has been described as ‘possibly the most significant cybercrime in the history of the state’

The assault on the Health Service Executive’s data systems wasn’t the first of its kind, and it won’t be the last

DPC has received formal breach notification from HSE in aftermath of attack, which represents ‘very serious incident’ from data protection perspective

It is unclear yet if individual personal data has been compromised as part of ‘sophisticated’ cyber attack

Move comes as part of broader shake-up of apprenticeship system amid concerns of too much focus on university courses

Overall spend on protective equipment to prevent spread of Covid-19 came to €896 million, new figures show

After a year of trauma and disruption things are finally looking up, with 3.9 million doses of the four licensed vaccines set to be delivered between now and the end of June

Politicians will ask health service about data underpinning the programme and the move to an age-based model at a hearing later this month

Grandstanding backbenchers and the shrill indignation of professional groups must be ignored if the most vulnerable are to be protected as rapidly as possible and the vaccine rollout simplified and speeded up

HSE says failure to record cohort of vaccine recipient may be due to poor record keeping or a technical issue

Revamp of rollout priority groups coupled with projected vaccine delivery dates mean early autumn will be a key benchmark in the public health campaign, according to a Business Post analysis

Stephen Donnelly promises a ‘really good summer’ as the vaccine rollout gathers pace, but first there are the queue-jumping scandals, lockdown breaches and illicit haircuts