Written question asked by Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour) on Friday, 11 November 2022, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 16 November 2022 (named day). A holding answer was provided on Wednesday, 16 November 2022. A substantive answer was provided by Will Quince (Conservative) on Thursday, 1 December 2022 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

NHS Digital: Cybersecurity

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of when the cyber incident that is affecting the publication of the NHS Digital Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics will be resolved; and what his planned timetable is for the publication of the full dataset.

Answer

We expect that national data publications in the coming months will be affected by the cyber incident. NHS Digital and NHS England are continuing to monitor this situation and minimise any impacts on subsequent months’ publications.

It is expected that national publications will be affected by this incident for the rest of 2022. Providers of mental health services can resubmit data to the Mental Health Services Dataset for any month between April 2022 and February 2023 until May 2023. Any resubmitted data will contribute to the ‘end of year final’ mental health services data, which will be published shortly after and will include complete data for every month in 2022/23, including national data.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 84943
Session: 2022-23
Related items: NHS Digital: Cybersecurity
Friday, 3 February 2023
Written questions
House of Commons; NHS: Cybersecurity
Friday, 3 February 2023
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House of Commons
Grouped for answer: Yes
Subjects: Mental health services NHS Digital Cybersecurity
Link: View this Written question on www.parliament.uk

NHS Digital: Cybersecurity

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