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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell and Dan Milmo

London NHS hospitals revert to paper records after cyber-attack

Ambulances outside a hospital's emergency department
Porters at Guy’s and St Thomas’ trust are collecting printed out blood test results and taking them to wards for medical staff to analyse. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

A cyber-attack thought to have been carried out by a Russian group has forced London NHS hospitals to resurrect long-discarded paper records systems in which porters hand-deliver blood test results because IT networks are disrupted.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ trust (GSTT) has gone back to using paper, rather than computers, to receive the outcome of patients’ blood tests.

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