13/05/2017 BBC Weekend News

Five NHS trusts have yet to return to normal

following an international cyber attack on Friday, which caused

Ambulances have been diverted, and patients to have treatment

Speaking after an emergency meeting of the government's COBRA committee,

Home Secretary Amber Rudd said 48, or a fifth of all trusts,

were affected - but that the vast majority were now

The cyber attack hit hospitals in Scotland as well.

This report from our Health Editor Hugh Pym.

The news shocked staff and patient alike. The cyber attack shut down

key systems. Ron Grimshaw won't forget it in a hurry. He was in the

middle of having an MMI scan but it was abruptly halted and he will have

to go back. I was stunned, obviously stunned, and the nurse said this is

the first time this has happened. I was thinking, why me? There we are.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt was at a meeting of the emergency committee

along with the Home Secretary, who denied there were weaknesses in NHS

systems. I don't believe it is to do with being prepared. There is always

more we can all do to make sure we are secure against viruses but I

think there had already been good preparation in place by the NHS to

make sure that they were ready for this sort of attack. In England,

hospital and Ambulance Services have been affected at 48 trusts along

with GP practices. In Scotland 11 out of 14 health boards have felt

the impact including health boards and GP surgeries. The Ambulance

Service was also affected. The NHS is very much in the recovery phase.

There is a great deal of work on going to get systems back to normal

and every effort is being made to ensure any impact on patient care is

kept to a minimum. AMD is working normally. They say while they

contained the virus it could take a while before they restorer nonurgent

services. 2000 have been taken out of commission. Each one will need

reimaging. That takes time. It will take a few days but we will be

working round-the-clock to do that as fast as we can. Staff have been

working flat out to get systems up and running normally. I'm concerned

because we don't know what we will find on Monday morning. I think

we've got sufficient understanding of the nature of the problem that we

can be very confident we can solve whatever comes up on Monday morning.

All but five of the English trusts have restored their networks. There

could be more cancellations of routine surgery and appointment next

week. Well in the last half hour

the National Crime Agency has said it will do everything in its power

to catch those behind Our Home Affairs Correspondent

Daniel Sandford joins me. What more have they been saying? The

head of the crime agency was standing shoulder to shoulder with

the leader of the national cyber Security Centre and said they did

not believe the NHS had been specifically targeted but it was the

main organisation affected. She said their absolute focus was to catch

the criminals who did this but at this stage they don't know if it was

a sophisticated criminal gang or a collection of hackers. We haven't

identified the offenders at this moment in time but we are deploying

all means available to us and we have a number of lines of enquiry.

It is really important we pursue those quickly so we can reassure the

public we are taking this very seriously. She had one specific

message to anyone affected, don't pay the ransom. Contact the National

reporting Centre for cyber crime. Jeremy Corbyn has denied

senior Labour figures are already accepting defeat

in the General Election. It follows comments

from his deputy Tom Watson that the Conservatives could be

heading for a landslide victory. Mr Corbyn said both he and Mr Watson

were 'working flat out' to get Meanwhile, the former Labour prime

minister, Gordon Brown, urged voters not to give

Theresa May "a blank cheque" Our Political Correspondent

Ian Watson reports. The Conservatives are waging a war

on the brewer. That is the claim from this former prime ministers.

You might expect it to say that the next Labour government. It but his

emphasis is on holding Theresa May to account. Her Brittan will have

more inequality and poverty than what we saw in the Thatcher years.

No Conservative Prime Minister should ever be given a free hand.

The deputy leader Tom Watson insisted he was determined to turn

round Labour's position in the polls but warned of the dangers of a big

Conservative victory. He said if she still commands the lead in the balls

she had at the start she will have on Margaret Thatcher style majority.

As Labour MPs battle to get back to Westminster we are seeing a tale of

two campaigns. The official one emphasising what they would do in

government and the unofficial one where some candidates tell me they

are going beyond what Gordon Brown and Tom Watson are saying. They are

telling voters they simply are campaigning to become a strong

opposition. In some local leaflets there is no mention of Jeremy

Corbyn. The emphasis is on reining in May. Jeremy Corbyn wanted to

focus on the election issues. He said he was working flat out for

victory and he did not recognise talk of defeat. Not at all. I'm out

round the whole country putting out a message. We are a party to the

many, not the few. We will invest in the NHS, the education system, we

will protect our pensions and pensioners and we will ensure there

is an expanding economy that works for all. Jeremy Corbyn doesn't think

he needs to shore up his support but he and his deputy reader both agree

the party faces a huge challenge to turn the political tide before June

eight. The Liberal Democrats

say their election manifesto will include proposals to build

300,000 new homes a year, The leader Tim Farron also says

developers who stockpile land without building on it

would be penalised. And Theresa May's been campaigning

in Northern Ireland today. She called on politicians

there to work together Controversy over a botched

renewable energy scheme led to the collapse of the Stormont

executive in January. More than eight hundred

children and teenagers, who'd lost a parent while serving

in the armed forces, have attended a garden party

at Buckingham Palace. They were welcomed by

the Duke and Duchess Among them, was the widow and son

of the fusilier Lee Rigby, who was killed in a terror

attack in 2013. Our Royal Correspondent

Nicholas Witchell reports. It's a very large garden accustomed

to formal events like garden parties but it's the perfect place for a

children's party which is exactly what was happening at Buckingham

Palace this afternoon. A hundred children have been invited

to the Palace by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince

Harry for a very special reason. Each of these children have lost the

parent serving in the Armed Forces. One of them was Jack Rigby, the

six-year-old son of Fusilier Rigby Rigby, murdered by extremists in

London four years ago -- Fusilier Rigby.

It is a chance to know that you're in a set environment, you can ask

advice of the other parents, they've been through similar things and at

different points gone through the same things you have, the questions,

the explanations... It is a fantastic opportunity. They met

Prince Harry who was demonstrating plate spinning. The Royals joined

in, posing for pictures and entertaining the crowd, all of it

with a serious message. We, as a family and the nation, will never

forget about the sacrifices everyone of you made. This event brings

together three of the issues they take an interest in, young people,

the Armed Forces, and bereavement. For a few hours, those wider carers

could be put to one side. There's more throughout the evening

on the BBC News Channel, and I'll be back with the late news,

at 11.25 tonight.