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UNCOVERED: Ministers coordinate response after cyberattack hits nhs | History Defined

NHS ambulances outside the Royal London hospital
The outage, which was first noticed on Thursday morning, caused disruptions to a number of services including the dispatching of ambulances. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Ministers are working to coordinate a “resilience response” after a cyber-attack caused a significant outage across the NHS computer system.

The outage affected services across the system such as patient referrals, ambulances being dispatched, out-of-hours appointment bookings, and emergency prescriptions.

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