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'We're losing patients in hospitals': Chaos in Greater Manchester's hospitals as week-long IT crash continues

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Doctors and nurses across four of the region’s major hospitals say they are ‘losing patients in hospitals’ as a huge IT failure tips over into more than a week of chaos. ‘Waiting times are rising’, staff are doing ‘longer shifts’, and staff are ‘unable to track their patients as they move through the hospitals’ because the electronic systems continue to crash. ‘The situation remains unchanged’ after seven days, as IT system problems have brought even the most basic tasks to a crawling pace, according to multiple staff members across the four Greater Manchester hospitals affected.

Three of the hospitals involved - the Royal Oldham, Fairfield General , and Rochdale Infirmary , - have declared critical incidents this week.

North Manchester General has declared a business continuity incident. READ MORE:'Concerned' medics have a plan to deal with Monkeypox if it spreads to Greater Manchester The IT failures have ‘affected every part’ of hospital life, say concerned staff and are causing 'severe delays' to patient care.

Several hospital sources tell the Manchester Evening News that systems used to access blood test, X-ray, MRI and CT scan results are not functioning correctly, meaning clinicians are unable to share the information with patients who could have 'life-threatening' illnesses.

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