Hospitals declared a critical incident as they were forced to cancel operations and blood tests.
Health leaders have launched an “urgent” blood drive across the country to help major hospitals at the centre of a cyber attack.
The affected hospitals cannot currently match patients’ blood at the same frequency as usual, NHS Blood and Transplant said. Both O positive and O negative blood donors are being urged to book appointments in one of the 25 NHS Blood Donor Centres in England to boost stocks. She also told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that without usual IT systems in place to match blood types it is “slower and more manual”, adding: “Therefore it would be easier and safer to give blood that we know that will be a suitable blood, and that’s why we go for group O.
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