An equipment failure disrupted the functioning of 80 NHS Hospital Trusts on Sunday, thankfully no patient data was hampered.
NHS Connecting for Health, which is in charge of the IT services in NHS conveyed that Trusts in North-West England and the West Midlands were interrupted due to the failure of equipment that rendered the patient administration systems inaccessible. A manual log will be maintained till the system is restored.A spokesman for NHS Connecting for Health said "This incident was caused by storage area network equipment failure and has affected several other organizations. Technical issues following power system interruptions mean that data held on computers in the central data centre for the region cannot be accessed. The nature of the incident meant that service could not immediately be provided by the back-up systems. No data has been lost."
