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Autumn date to fix blood transfusion services

The systems were affected by a hack on the NHS, which caused significant disruption.

The hackers made systems unusable unless a payment was received and caused significant disruption, with hundreds of operations and thousands of appointments cancelled. The situation is also part of the reason the NHS made an urgent appeal for blood donors after warning stocks had dropped to "unprecedently low" levels. Synnovis did not pay the hackers, so it had to rebuild its systems from scratch - as well as find a way to access critical data from back-ups, which takes a huge amount of time and effort from IT teams.

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