Aye, I swear they just love my face, every time they get a test result they like to stretch it out and do a few more:joker:

Aww good luck with your results Smudgie, I hope they come back quick and with no problems. :wavey:

How come this wasn't made a bigger deal?...

Robbing, corrupt, useless basts.

'The ambitious scheme, designed to create electronic patient records for use across the NHS in England, was shelved two years ago but the amount of money wasted is increasing as there are still outstanding costs and some elements of the project have continued in different parts of the country.
The Government put the bill for the failed National Programme at £6.4 billion when it announced it was being dismantled and officials later estimated the total would reach £9.8 billion.
But the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the full costs of the scheme are still not certain as the latest forecast does not include the bill for terminating Fujitsu's contract for care records systems in the south of England or other future costs.
Taxpayers are continuing to pay the price for the failures of the Department of Health and its contractors, MPs said.
They highlighted the Government's decision to renegotiate its original contracts, worth £3.1 billion, with company CSC for care records systems across 220 trusts in the North, Midlands and East, following delays and problems.'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/...nd-rising.html

They are going to have to pay the ransom

On the BBC Radio 4 programme PM, they reported how one of these hit a police force in America, and even they had to pay the ransom

Jeremy Hunt at it again it seems

Tony ****ing blair.

Genuinely one of my first thoughts. False flag crap to further erode public confidence.

Apparently 74 countries were hit with Russia and Spain hit the hardest

It better be the russians cause if its some spotty teen telling me patrick agbonubo has fake piles i wont be happy.:fist:

Well, on the bright side, I am not worried about being pregnant:laugh:

We got hit by thus virus at work and it's actually really difficult to get rid of. Our anti virus managed to stop it before it replicated too far but was still a nightmare

The main problem here is how outdated the systems are. A lot are still on XP, which Microsoft stopped supporting years ago. It's absolutely full of security holes.

Don't see why any government is getting blame here,the scum that did it are to blame,no one else and it's going worldwide apparently.

Well, Microsoft did provide updates for companies still using XP for a fee, but guess who cancelled that?

Jeremy ****ing Hunt

Any excuse to have a go at the tories. Got to do all they can to stop them winning the election. Pathetic.

That's the crux of it Brillo ,no one is to blame ,just the scum that did it ,plus it's not just here it's in other countries 70 altogether,and not just the NHS,so instead of putting the blame on a party they dont like,people need to concentrate on the person or people that hacked it.:wavey:

The question is why remove an 'out of dste' system that was safe for a £10 billion pound one that isn't?

Are you familiar with the concept of humour? My comment was quite obviously tongue in cheek

Well, I mean, even the Daily Mail is calling Hunt out on this ****, so...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...arliament.html

I didn't see anyone quote your post. My comment had nothing to do with you or your so-called tongue in cheek sense of humour.

Do you use XP?

Most hospitals in the UK, including a lot of private hospitals are still using this outdated system.

It was only a matter of time. XP is a very vulnerable system, especially for holding confidential records. Last year the Tories stopped funding deals with Microsoft XP within the NHS and because hospitals no longer have the money to update their systems or pay for anti-virus software, this has happened.

If this isn't proof that the Tories are deliberately starving the NHS, I don't know what is.

Well, I was the one who brought up a Conservative minister

Well what is the truth ? on Sky news today a guy was saying Windows XP was the most stable of the systems so much so that the military and other high profile organisations used it ,plus it was Microsoft themselves who demanded no patches etc just new windows OS,which meant all brand new stuff,so for me it's Microsoft that need to be looked at also the mis- management of money in the NHS.that coming from a junior doctor,so I think it suits some people to blame the Tories,it fits in with some agendas well,but bottom line ,the people to blame are the hackers,this is global not just aimed at the NHS,so the blame game doesn't wash with me.