'The inadequate capacity to process blood tests [post-Synnovis hack] had a downstream effect on these [general] practices, as resources were redirected to prioritise hospital care.
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'The inadequate capacity to process blood tests [post-Synnovis hack] had a downstream effect on these [general] practices, as resources were redirected to prioritise hospital care. Restricted access to pathology services stymied the ability of primary care services to obtain timely test results for new diagnoses and management of patients with chronic diseases and urgent investigations, leaving primary care struggling to address routine and emergent patient needs effectively'.
I'd like to know if the attackers genuinely knew how devastating their targeting would be.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(25)00061-5/fulltext -
'The inadequate capacity to process blood tests [post-Synnovis hack] had a downstream effect on these [general] practices, as resources were redirected to prioritise hospital care. Restricted access to pathology services stymied the ability of primary care services to obtain timely test results for new diagnoses and management of patients with chronic diseases and urgent investigations, leaving primary care struggling to address routine and emergent patient needs effectively'.
I'd like to know if the attackers genuinely knew how devastating their targeting would be.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(25)00061-5/fulltext'The patient safety incident investigation identified a number of contributing factors that led to the patient's death.
'This included a long wait for a blood test result due to the [Synnovis] cyber attack impacting pathology services at the time'.
Om Shanti.
https://news.sky.com/story/patient-death-linked-to-cyber-attack-on-nhs-hospital-trust-says-13388485 -
'The patient safety incident investigation identified a number of contributing factors that led to the patient's death.
'This included a long wait for a blood test result due to the [Synnovis] cyber attack impacting pathology services at the time'.
Om Shanti.
https://news.sky.com/story/patient-death-linked-to-cyber-attack-on-nhs-hospital-trust-says-13388485'At South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM), pathology systems have not been restored as of publication ... without electronic requesting or reporting and relying on paper processes and manual uploads.
'It estimated the entering of 161,560 pathology reports into patient records had been delayed as of early January 2026.
'Copies of emails said clinicians at SLaM were warned not to rely on the timely return of blood results. Critical results are being communicated by phone, while full reports are being delivered as paper or PDFs and manually uploaded into patient records.
'... no pathology reports for SLaM patients have been available in the London Care Record ... and that normal service had not resumed for the trust'.
'The trust said these workaround processes carried risks including delays, transcription errors and the potential for patient misidentification. Its data recorded 122 patient safety incidents of incorrect, unavailable or delayed pathology results as of January 2026.
'[SLaM] said it had not been possible to quantify the impact of delays on diagnosis or treatment, despite recording incidents linked to missing or delayed results'.
Due to one critical and concentrated pathology provider being ransomwared around two years ago.
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