Submission + - Some of UK's NHS patient notes not available for weeks due to cyber attack (independent.co.uk)
Bruce66423 writes: A cyber attack on a major supplier of IT systems to the NHS may leave hospitals without access to patients records for more than three weeks, according to an email to hospital staff.
'Oxford Health Foundation Trust, has declared a critical incident over the outage and has told staff the patient notes system may be down for longer than three weeks.
'In an email to staff, Oxford Health Foundation Trust said: “The cyber-attack targeted systems used to refer patients for care, including ambulances being dispatched, out-of-hours appointment bookings, triage, out of hours care, emergency prescriptions and safety alerts. It also targeted the finance system used by the Trust.'
The question I have is why it should take so long to restore the system from backups; 'weeks' is an unreasonable period. Anyone any thoughts?
'Oxford Health Foundation Trust, has declared a critical incident over the outage and has told staff the patient notes system may be down for longer than three weeks.
'In an email to staff, Oxford Health Foundation Trust said: “The cyber-attack targeted systems used to refer patients for care, including ambulances being dispatched, out-of-hours appointment bookings, triage, out of hours care, emergency prescriptions and safety alerts. It also targeted the finance system used by the Trust.'
The question I have is why it should take so long to restore the system from backups; 'weeks' is an unreasonable period. Anyone any thoughts?
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