NHS patients affected by cyber-attack may face six-month wait for blood tests.

I'm smelling a rat here with this story "NHS patients affected by cyber-attack may face six-month wait for blood test" I worked in NHS pathology laboratories for 40 years and so I've got a bit of knowledge about how these things work (or used to work before I retired) Why aren't the private pathology provider (Synnovis) working with other pathology services throughout the country to mop up the workload. Almost all laboratories have excess capacity for routine testing - and there will be very little that is so specialist that it must be tested locally. If phlebotomy is the bottleneck (which I doubt) then patients could be given the option to travel to another service elsewhere. I do wonder if Synnovis are being 'difficult' here because they are a private contractor, not an integral part of the local NHS service. I fear that this is an issue with a privatised NHS service as much as the knock-on effect of the cyber attack

NHS patients affected by cyber-attack may face six-month wait for blood test

NHS patients affected by cyber-attack may face six-month wait for blood test | NHS | The Guardian

NHS patients affected by cyber-attack may face six-month wait for blood test Only ‘urgent’ tests to go ahead in short term after hospitals in south-east London hit by Russian gang’s seizure of dataPatients denied a blood test because of a Russian cyber-attack on the NHS may have to wait up to six months to have their sample taken, the Guardian has... #press