A vital incident at pathology system supplier Synnovis has disrupted providers at Man’s and St Thomas’ NHS Basis Belief, King’s Faculty Hospital NHS Basis Belief and first care throughout south east London, Digital Well being Information has discovered.
Synnovis is a partnership between SYNLAB UK & Eire, Man’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT and King’s Faculty Hospital NHS FT which is accountable for reworking hospital-based laboratory and diagnostic providers into an built-in ‘hub and spoke’ pathology community for south east London.
In an e-mail to workers on 3 June 2024, seen by Digital Well being Information, Professor Ian Abbs, chief govt at Man’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT, stated that an “ongoing vital incident” was having a significant affect on pathology providers.
“I can verify that our pathology accomplice Synnovis skilled a significant IT incident earlier at this time, which is ongoing and signifies that we’re not at the moment linked to the Synnovis IT servers,” Professor Abbs stated.
“That is having a significant affect on the supply of our providers, with blood transfusions being significantly affected.
“Some exercise has already been cancelled or redirected to different suppliers at brief discover as we prioritise the scientific work that we’re in a position to safely perform,” he continued.
He additionally confirmed that the incident was affecting King’s Faculty Hospital NHS Basis Belief and first care throughout south east London.
“An incident response construction has been stood up, with colleagues from throughout the belief assembly often to evaluate the scenario and put contingency plans into place,” Professor Abs stated.
Synnovis went reside with a Laboratory Data Administration System in October 2023 which consolidated a number of programs at Man’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT, and King’s Faculty Hospital NHS FT, into one.
In April 2024, SC Media reported that SYNLAB Italia had been hit by a cyber assault which disrupted its laboratories, medical centres, and sampling factors.
In the meantime, NHS Dumfries and Galloway introduced on 6 Could 2024 that it’s working with the Nationwide Cyber Safety Centre following the publication of round three terabytes of affected person information on the darkish net, which was stolen in a ransomware assault in March 2024.
On the time of publication Synnovis and SYNLAB had not responded to Digital Well being New’s request for remark.
