A cyber attack on the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust led to the trust declaring a “major incident”, affecting all its hospitals. Appointments have been cancelled, staff had to manually handle tasks, systems holding records have been shut down and patient services like x-rays were not functioning on the day of the attack. The local authority and the trust are working together to manage this situation.
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