A major IT failure that caused weeks of problems at four major Greater Manchester hospitals will cost the NHS more than £650k, it has been revealed.
The issue, which began on May 17, impacted most clinical systems in Fairfield General, Rochdale Infirmary, the Royal Oldham Hospital and North Manchester General Hospital.
Thousands of patients were affected when IT problems caused chaos with services including electronic prescribing, viewing patients’ medical records and finding test results, and forced staff to move back to a paper system.
