Critical incident at London hospitals due to cyber attack with surgeries cancelled

Major London hospitals declared a critical incident after a ransomware cyber attack on pathology partner Synnovis resulted in cancelled procedures and loss of blood transfusions. The incident forced the redirection of some operations to other National Health Service (NHS) providers. The attack inflicted significant disruption to service delivery, particularly blood transfusions, with one senior source predicting that obtaining pathology results could take “weeks, not days”.