Rebecca Whittaker reports:
The death of a patient has been linked to a cyber-attack on the NHS last year.
Cyber criminals attacked two major NHS trusts causing more than 1,000 cancer treatment delays, 2,000 outpatient appointments to be cancelled and more than 1,000 operations postponed.
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said on Wednesday; a patient died during the cyber attack as a result of a long wait time for blood test results.
The trust’s mortality review concluded that the long wait for a blood test result as a consequence of the Qilin gang’s ransomware attempt on Synnovis contributed to the patient’s death.
Read more at The Independent.