A major cyberattack has left GP practices in London only able to complete 400 blood tests out of 10,000 a day while thousands of patient samples are set to be destroyed, The Independent can reveal. The attack, which has crippled hospital services run by Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, is also heavily impacting GPs practices’ ability to test patients. Russian cybercriminals are believed to be behind the attack on pathology service provider Synnovis, which has caused chaos across the NHS.
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co.uk In a new leaked email obtained by The Independent today, Synnovis warned of problems with blood tests it usually carries out for GP practices in the south London boroughs of Bromley, Southwark, Lambeth, Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham . The email sent on Monday also said: “We regret that we received many more samples from primary care than we could process last week – around 8,000 serum samples for chemistry.
These are stored in our fridges. We have been able to process around 3,000 full blood count samples, but cannot export results because we have no IT connectivity as described above. “It is very likely that most will need to be discarded because the sample w.
