Urgent message to anyone with NHS appointment this week
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukNHS England has warned of “delays” as services recover from Friday’s global IT outage. The health service said patients with appointments this week “should continue to attend unless told not to”.
It comes after the British Medical Association (BMA) warned on Sunday that normal GP service “cannot be resumed immediately” after the outage caused a “considerable backlog”.
The trade union for doctors said GPs would “need time to catch up from lost work over the weekend”, adding that NHS England should “make clear to patients” this was the case.
The BMA said its GP committee would continue to talk to NHS England and patient record system supplier EMIS to secure a “better system of IT back-up” to ensure the “disaster” was not repeated.
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