NHS makes urgent appeal for blood donations after cyberattack on London hospitals

The NHS has made an urgent appeal for O blood type donors in response to the cyberattack that forced some of the largest hospitals in London to cancel operations and divert patients to other trusts.The ransomware attack on Synnovis, a provider of pathology services, on 3 June prompted trusts using the IT service to declare a critical incident because of the impact on areas including transplant surgeries and blood transfusions. Guy’s and St Thomas’—one of the trusts affected—asked medical students to assist in delivering blood tests while IT systems are down, according to a memo obtained by the Sunday Times.1The attack affected Guy’s and St Thomas’s hospitals, the Evelina London Children’s Hospital, and Royal Brompton Hospital (both run by Guy’s); King’s College Hospital; and GP services across the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, and Southwark.The hospitals affected have been unable to match patients’ blood at the same frequency…
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