Patient death at London hospital linked to cyber attack on NHS
The death of a patient was attached to a cyber attack last year at NHS.
Cyber criminals attacked more than 1,000 cancer treatment delay, cancellation of 2,000 outpatient clinic appointments and postponing more than 1,000 operations.
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on Wednesday; As a result of a long waiting period for blood test results, a patient died during a cyber attack.
“A patient unfortunately died unexpectedly during the cyber attack. When this happened, we undertook a detailed examination of his care, like the standard practice,” he said.
“Patient safety event research has described a number of factor factor that led to the death of the patient.
“This had a long wait for a blood test that affected cyber attack pathology services.
“We met the patient’s family and shared the findings of the security investigation with them.”
Synnovis, which provides a number of pathology services, including diagnosis, test and digital pathology in southeast of Southeast London, was the victim of the ransom software attack, which was understood by the Russian group Qilin.
Guy’s and St Thomas, King’s College and Lewisham and Greenwich hospitals were influenced by the attack on June 3 last year. It was also affected in six districts and two mental health confidence.
Without this pathology service, NHS confidence in the region could not do business with transfusion or blood matching. Instead, they had to use O-type blood for everyone-universal blood group.
However, this later announced that NHS Britain resulted in the national O-Type Blood Sources.
In the cyber attack, sensitive data stolen from a NHS provider were allegedly published online.
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