NHS trusts have expressed frustration with Connecting
for Health and its contractor CSC for the datacentre crash that
caused disruption and additional workload for hospital
staff.
Connecting for Health said most systems were recovered and being
tested on Wednesday. "To date no impact on the delivery of patient
care has been reported," it said.
Alan Wilks, deputy chief executive at Royal Liverpool and
Broadgreen University Hospitals, said he was surprised that both
the datacentre and the back-up systems failed because the trust had
been given assurances over the resilience of the system.
"It will be something that we will be discussing with CSC. It is
very disappointing," he said.
Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Trust relies on systems
supplied by CSC to run its medical case note tracking system and
had to use manual systems until last Thursday. The contingency plan
helped the hospital carry on in the short term, but if the problem
had persisted it would have eventually put patients at risk, a
trust spokesman said.
"The longer a problem continues, sooner or later somebody will
be put at risk," he added.
The trust spent most of Thursday testing systems and
transferring manual data onto the system. "Inevitably that puts a
strain drain on finite resources," the trust spokesman said.
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