Barts Health NHS Trust has cancelled 136 operations and hundreds of chemotherapy appointments due to IT failure

Sooraj Shah
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Pathology and image viewing applications have finally been restored across the Trust after two-week outage

Barts Health NHS Trust has had to cancel 136 operations and hundreds of chemotherapy appointments after an IT failure left a number of its critical applications unavailable to staff. The issue, ...

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