It will take months for hospitals to recover from a major cyber attack that cancelled thousands of appointments , the health authorities have admitted. NHS England has confirmed that from 3 to 9 June, more than 800 planned operations and 700 outpatient appointments were cancelled after pathology services were hit by a ransomware attack on King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. It has now committed to publishing weekly data on the impact of the cyber attack.
The attack crippled hospital services, with hundreds of life-saving operations cancelled, The Independent revealed this week. Russian cybercriminals are believed to be behind the ransomware hack on the trusts’ pathology service provider, Synnovis. On Wednesday this publication revealed that Synnovis can only complete 400 blood tests of its usual 10,000 per day for GPs across six London boroughs .
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uk The incident has forced Synnovis to destroy most of the 8,000 blood samples it has received since the attack and patient appointments will have to be rebooked. GPs were told this week that all non-critical blood tests would have to be cancelled and that labs would only be able to process clinically critical tests. On Tuesday The Independent revealed that more than a third of procedures and operations across the two NHS trusts were cancelled in the wake of t.
