Doctors and nurses across four of the region’s major hospitals say they are ‘losing patients in hospitals’ as a huge IT failure tips over into more than a week of chaos. ‘Waiting times are rising’, staff are doing ‘longer shifts’, and staff are ‘unable to track their patients as they move through the hospitals’ because the electronic systems continue to crash.
‘The situation remains unchanged’ after seven days, as IT system problems have brought even the most basic tasks to a crawling pace, according to multiple staff members across the four Greater Manchester hospitals affected.
Three of the hospitals involved - the Royal Oldham, Fairfield General , and Rochdale Infirmary , - have declared critical incidents this week. North Manchester General has declared a business continuity incident.
