NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Built-in Care System (ICS) has confirmed that its IT techniques are “coming again on-line” following a community outage.
The ICS issued an announcement on its web site at 16.30 on 11 June 2024, saying that it was experiencing “vital IT points throughout our hospitals and different NHS places”.
It added that deliberate outpatient appointments and operations could must be rescheduled, because of the outage, which it mentioned was brought on by a “native problem” and never a cyber assault.
“Enterprise continuity plans are in place and our medical groups proceed to supply affected person care and remedy. We have now recognized the issue and are at present restoring techniques,” the assertion mentioned.
The outage is known to have affected Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Belief, Cornwall Partnership NHS Belief, and College Hospitals Plymouth NHS Belief, in addition to GP surgical procedures and neighborhood suppliers.
At 18.00 on 11 June, a spokesperson for NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ICS issued a second assertion, which acknowledged that ” IT techniques are coming again on-line after a community outage earlier at the moment”.
“The work to revive these will proceed all through this night and in a single day.
“Outpatient appointments, deliberate operations and procedures can be going forward tomorrow and sufferers ought to come to the hospital or well being centre as deliberate.
“Anybody who has had an appointment postponed at the moment can be contacted on to agree a brand new date,” the spokesperson mentioned.
They added that GP surgical procedures can be open and individuals who have GP appointments ought to proceed to attend, as deliberate.
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The outage follows the cancellation of operations and blood transfusions in south east London on account of a cyber assault on pathology service supplier Synnovis on 3 June 2024.