HIV tests dropped and a return to paper working: Inside the London hospitals being held to ransom by Russian hackers
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A cyberattack on NHS hospitals could take months to resolve, with HIV tests and cervical cancer screening dropped and staff working on paper, The Independent has been told by insiders. Commercial supplier Synnovis provides systems used by labs, King’s College and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS trusts, and GP services across six London boroughs – Bromley, Southwark, Lambeth, Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham. Everything is paper-based, which means more risk, of course.” Another senior clinician said it could take months to recover, but weeks to solve “priority” services. This means BGPA will be cancelling all non-urgent phlebotomy appointments until further notice, as there is no capability to process samples and return them at this time.” On Wednesday, a spokesperson for NHS England London said: “Unfortunately, some operations and procedures which rely more heavily on pathology services have been postponed, and blood testing is being prioritised for the most urgent cases, meaning patients have had phlebotomy appointments cancelled.” On Wednesday morning, former National Cyber Security Centre chief Ciaran Martin told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme the attack came from a Russian cybercrime group called Qilin.
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