Global tech outage live updates: Emergency Cobra meeting held as IT crash hits flights, trains, NHS and banks

Breakdown linked to global cyber security firm CrowdStrike and Microsoft - CrowdStrike confirms it is “not a security incident or cyber attack”

The considerable disruption to GP services is a 'serious concern', the chair of the Royal College of GPs has said. Professor Kamila Hawthorne said the such outages directly impact the care doctors can give patients and encouraged anyone with non-urgent issues to try and wait until the situation is resolved.

'Any form of disruption to our digital systems is a serious concern for GPs as it directly impacts on the care we can give to our patients. Outages like this affect our access to important clinical information about our patients, as well as our ability to book tests, make referrals, and inform the most appropriate treatment plan. 'We urge all patients to please bear with us and if their issue isn't urgent then to try and wait until the outage has been resolved.

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