UK GPs and Pharmacies Say Global IT Outage Disruption to Continue Over Weekend

Published on July 20, 2024

GPs and pharmacies have said that disruption from the global IT outage will continue over the weekend, amid warnings of travel delays after flight cancellations. A flawed update rolled out by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike knocked many offline around the world on Friday, causing flight and train cancellations and crippling some healthcare systems. A fix was deployed for a bug in the update, which affected Microsoft Windows PCs, on Friday, as CrowdStrike’s chief executive said it would take “some time” for systems to be fully restored. The outage caused disruption in “the majority of GP practices” on Friday, NHS England said, and ambulance services also reported increased pressure on 999 and NHS 111 services....

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