Business As Usual at East Surrey and Crawley Hospitals

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs East Surrey Hospital confirmed that appointments and clinics are fully operational this week.  The Trust put in place further security measures and says that some clinical computer systems may be running slower than usual.

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust which runs Crawley Hospital has also stated that it has not been affected by the cyber attack.  The Trust says that IT staff have worked over the weekend and applied the necessary patches to protect systems. Further work to protect systems will continue.

Forty seven NHS Trusts faced disruption following Friday’s ransomware attack.  The ransomware that hit the NHS in England and Scotland, has infected 200,000 machines in 150 countries since Friday.