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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rob Davies

UK doctors and travel firms warn of backlog after global IT outage

Doctor at desk in consulting room
The temporary loss of the Emis patient record system used by GPs had led to a backlog. Photograph: parkerphotography/Alamy

NHS patients have been warned GP services “cannot be resumed immediately”, and stranded holidaymakers told it could take “days” to get them to their destinations, as the effects of Friday’s global IT outage continue.

CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company at the heart of the crisis, said on Sunday that it had deployed a fix for the “defect” with its software, which has caused chaos around the world for businesses that use Microsoft operating systems.

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