NHS suffering ‘serious’ and widespread disruption, while people are told of possible delays in receiving prescriptions
- Microsoft outage – live updates
Vital services including hospitals and police have been hit by a global Microsoft outage that left NHS staff resorting to paper records and fuelled concerns about an over-reliance on a small number of tech companies
A day of widespread disruption sent some sectors back to the 1990s, with court staff looking for fax machines and rail travellers being warned they may not be able to rely on digital tickets.