NHS England warns of disruption next week as global IT outage wreaks havoc

NHS England warns of disruption next week as global IT outage wreaks havoc

Flights continue to be cancelled while GP surgeries and hospitals will be dealing with impact of backlogs

The aftershocks of the Microsoft IT outage continued to ripple across the UK on Saturday as holidaymakers and patients suffered the brunt of the computer systems failure.

Customers experienced flight cancellations, faulty train ticket machines and failures in GPs’ prescription and appointment systems after a flawed security update from CrowdStrike, a US cybersecurity firm, crashed 8.5 million devices across the world running the Windows operating system.

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