As NHS Trusts become increasingly digitally and operationally interconnected, cyber risk is no longer contained within organisational boundaries. Shared systems, common suppliers, and national services mean that incidents in one part of the ecosystem can rapidly impact others — with direct consequences for patient care, service continuity, and operational resilience.
In this panel discussion, senior security leaders from Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust and NHS England examine how cyber risk is evolving across the NHS, and why traditional, Trust-by-Trust security approaches are no longer sufficient. They explore how interdependencies across suppliers, platforms, and services can create pathways for disruption, lateral movement, and cascading failure at scale.
The session examines
- How shared suppliers and services are reshaping the NHS cyber risk and threat landscape
- Why collaboration between Trusts is becoming critical to drive resilience
- Why third- and fourth-party dependencies now represent material risk
- What recent incidents reveal about systemic vulnerability across the NHS
Designed for CISOs, Heads of IT, Information Governance, and Risk leaders, this webinar focuses on how NHS organisations can strengthen resilience in an increasingly interconnected environment, with clear, actionable takeaways.
Speakers
- Shaun van Niekerk
CISO - Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Mark Logsdon
CISO - NHS England



