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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Rachel Charlton-Dailey

Thousands heading into bank holiday without GP care due to system failures

An untold number of people were left unable to see a medical professional on Friday after system failures.

The EMIS software, which is used in approximately half of GP surgeries, primary care facilities, dentists and community pharmacies in England, had outages for most of Friday.

This left doctors and other medical staff unable to access any medical records - meaning potentially tens of thousands of appointments were cancelled as doctors were unable to treat patients.

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