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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

London NHS trust cancels operations as IT system fails in heatwave

The A&E department at St Thomas' hospital
Both of the trust’s data centres, one at Guy’s hospital and the other at St Thomas’, stopped working on Tuesday afternoon. Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock

One of the NHS’s biggest hospital trusts is facing major problems after its IT system failed because of the extreme temperatures earlier this week.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ trust (GSTT) in London has had to cancel operations, postpone appointments and divert seriously ill patients to other hospitals in the capital as a result of its IT meltdown.

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