Clinical IT systems went down during Friday's outage
People have been warned that normal GP service “cannot be resumed immediately” after last week's IT outage. The outage on Friday grounded flights , stopped trains and impacted businesses across the world. It also meant that GP services could not use their IT systems. As such, the British Medical Association has warned services will take time to get back to normal, as the outage caused a backlog that clinics will need to work through in the coming week.
“Even if we could guarantee it could be fully fixed on Monday, GPs would still need time to catch up from lost work over the weekend, and NHSE should make clear to patients that normal service cannot be resumed immediately. The BMA’s GP committee will continue our dialogue with both EMIS and NHSE , both to make sure that the coming week can be used to recover as quickly as possible and to urgently work on securing a better system of IT backup so that this disaster is not repeated in future.
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