Patients face more disruption this weekend as they try to collect prescriptions after Crowdstrike IT outage, pharmacists warn

Patients needing medication face more hassle this weekend as pharmacists warn of continued disruption following the world's biggest IT disaster. Pharmacists have warned patients will face continued disruptions in collecting their prescriptions after Crowdstrike's enormous IT meltdown 300 million computers were impacted by the security firm's blunder - and it may be weeks before they are fixed After the worldwide IT outage, the chairman of the National Pharmacy Association has warned the pinch on prescriptions will still be there despite systems largely being back online. 'Yesterday's outage will have caused backlogs and we expect services to continue to be disrupted this weekend as pharmacies recover,' pharmacist Nick Kaye warned 'Most pharmacies will have an office based or computer-based system rather than online. Vice chairman Olivier Picard said the issue has sparked 'continuous problems' The Port of Dover said early this morning that it was dealing with 'hundreds of displaced' airport passengers and urged customers to ensure they had a booking before arrival.