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06:26 12th May 2011
General Practitioners, or GPs, need to have a third party administering their IT security networks as they might not have the knowledge needed under plans to hand them more decision powers, according to Alex Teh, commercial director of Vigil Software, an information security solutions company.
The expert said GPs haven't usually received highly-skilled computer training and their server infrastructure might be exposed if they take control.
"You wouldn't want to be implementing encryption technologies or encryption servers on those types of networks, because it requires specialist IT security skills to not just deploy it but to manage it and administrate it," he explained.
His comments followed a report published late last month by the committee of public accounts which analysed the value for money risks and implications of the Health and Social Care Bill.
The current coalition government has come under some criticism for the reforms it is trying to implement which some see as too abrupt.
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