Delayed cyberattack detection and response
13 items
1 source
Significant delays in detecting and responding to cyberattack risks within government agencies, despite high-risk ratings.
Cross-Source Insight
Delayed cyberattack detection and response has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
13 PFD reports
This theme has been identified in one data source. As more data is added, cross-references may emerge.
PFD Reports (13)
Stephen Page
Concerns: The electronic sensor system provides only a brief, visual CCTV alert without an audible alarm, making it easily missed by operators and risking lost opportunities for intervention.
Response: MAPP has installed an audible alarm system, given instructions to enhance physical perimeter safety measures (to be completed by April 2026), and arranged for suicide prevention awareness training to be …
Responded
Liam Allan
Concerns: Inadequate visibility of riverside buoyancy aids and slow, telephone-based police-to-fire service communication create critical delays in emergency response, increasing drowning risks.
Responded
Dean Bray
Concerns: Staff in seclusion rooms could not make emergency calls directly, and paramedics faced delays accessing a patient due to unknown and unshared direct ward access routes, hindering emergency response.
Overdue
Linda Banks
Concerns: Identified systemic failures in mental health services were not effectively addressed. Significant delays in Serious Incident Investigations (9 months) compromise evidence quality, hindering prompt learning and improvement in patient safety.
Responded
Manoel Santos
Concerns: Delays in notifying foreign national offenders of immigration detention and inadequate access to legal advice are compounded by poor inter-agency communication and a lack of specialist prison staff for immigration matters.
Overdue
Ian Darwin
Concerns: Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust routinely fails to conduct timely serious incident investigations, allowing hazards to persist and compromising learning, despite past assurances and national guidelines for 60-day completion.
Responded
Daniel Tilley
Concerns: Insufficient funding and staffing within police Communication and Control Units, compounded by inadequate officer numbers, consistently prevent timely responses to incidents, a long-standing issue particularly acute during peak demand.
Responded
Darran Busby
Concerns: A critical flaw in the electronic patient record system allows radiology results requiring urgent follow-up to be inadvertently filed without clinician review, risking missed diagnoses and treatment delays.
Responded
Carol Jennings
Concerns: Inadequate and unchased referrals to the Tissue Viability Nurse, combined with systemic failures in detailed wound record-keeping, led to delayed and insufficient care for severe leg ulcers.
Responded
Glenys Button
Concerns: Inefficient and outdated neurosurgical referral systems, relying on switchboards and bleeps, cause delays and miscommunications, with no backup for busy on-call doctors. Modern digital solutions are available but not utilized.
Overdue
Deborah Hopkinson
Concerns: Frequent equipment failures and significant delays in specialist consultant involvement due to lack of expertise and communication issues severely impacted patient diagnosis and treatment.
Responded
Leslie Carswell
Concerns: Technical difficulties in transmitting CT scans between trusts caused critical delays in deciding treatment plans for urgent conditions. These unresolved issues risk delaying life-saving care.
Overdue
Georgina Swindells
Concerns: Unexplained image transfer delays, lack of data for investigation, absence of backup systems, and unclear causes for erroneous scan reports indicate systemic failures in radiology services, risking recurrence and misdiagnosis.
Overdue