Streeting urges patients to ‘bear with’ GPs as outage sparks major disruption

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has urged people to “bear with” GPs amid a major IT outage that has caused “considerable disruption” to appointment bookings and other services. 

Thousands of GP practices have been affected, with NHS England confirming there has been an issue with the EMIS Web system, which is understood to be used by about 60% of practices in England. 

There have also been issues with administrative systems in some hospitals while some ambulance services have reported a surge in demand.

The PA news agency understands that around 3,700 GP practices may be affected. People trying to access the NHS app have also encountered problems.

Full story at Yahoo News.

By Storm Newton, Jane Kirby and Ellie Ng.