GP asks patients to 'bear with us' as NHS clinics hit by global IT outages. Dr Aliaa says doctors would be working old school with a pad and pen to take notes, while prescriptions would be delayed because of the tech outage.
Have you been hit by the NHS IT outage? Contact [email protected]. Follow theAn NHS hospital has declared a 'critical incident' after the Microsoft 's global outage rendered it incapable of delivering treatment to cancer patients.
However, the critical incident would remain in place and the Trust warned the disruption could affect appointments into next week. GP services up and down the country have borne the brunt of the Microsoft outage due to their reliance on the EMIS system. 'The challenge is around our patient administration system. It means that we've gone to manual registration of new patients,' they said,
'Blood donation systems are not affected and we currently have a high number of appointments available at our donor centres in major towns and cities, including London, Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham.' Read More What's behind the Microsoft outage? Experts reveal the truth behind the blackout 'We can't see any patients our systems are down. It's not clinically safe to treat patients because we can't see their notes,' they said.
'The clinical computer systems used by our GPs in Brent, Harrow, Hillingdon, Dormers Wells practice in Ealing and Spring Grove practice in Hounslow are currently unable to access patient records, including telephone numbers and email addresses.Patients also told MailOnline they were struggling to access lifesaving drugs and care.
'Don’t know when I will be able to get a prescription as the GP website is down as well and no one is answering the phone.' 'There are also some issues with administrative systems in hospitals that mean staff are having to work manually from paper to manage certain tasks but in the majority of hospitals, care is continuing as normal.Wilmslow Health Centre urged people to be patient with GPs today as the fault with the IT system was out of their handsBut an alert issued by the company to GPs this morning, seen by this website, said: 'We are aware that users are still unable to access EMIS Web'.
US cyber security company CrowdStrike has admitted to being responsible for the error, as they report on their website they are 'working on it'.
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