'All emergency care services will continue to be provided and the public should attend appointments and access services as normal unless advised not to by service providers like their hospital or GP'
The Department of Health has confirmed that current global IT issues are impacting a number of Health and Social Care services in Northern Ireland.
A statement said: "Impacts are continuing to be collated, assessed, and responded to urgently, patient care remains the priority and all HSC organisations continue to deliver services to patients as best as possible while the IT issues are fixed".READ MORE: Cybersecurity firm at centre of global IT meltdown issues statement
Affected practices will be operating on an emergency appointment basis only until the IT issues are resolved, the Department says. "HSC technology teams are working intensively with third-party vendors to rectify the issue by removing the impacted component and will continue bringing systems back to normal during the course of the day, as well as working with operational teams to find and fix impacted services. It is not currently understood to be caused by a cyber attack.
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