Hospitals, GPs, police forces and property agents across the UK have been hit by the global Microsoft outage. Here’s how the disruption to email and other IT facilities has affected key services. Healthcare The NHS experienced “serious” and “widespread” disruption across the UK on Friday as a result of the Microsoft outage, with hundreds of hospitals, GP surgeries and community health services affected, senior health sources said. While some doctors, hospital workers and NHS night staff told the Guardian they first noticed problems accessing emails during the early hours of Friday morning, the severity of the problem became apparent to most from about 6am. The NHS.net Connect system – which more than one million NHS staff use for emails, meetings, calendars, file access and other tasks – is powered by Microsoft. The outage meant many could not log in, perform basic duties, or send and receive patient data needed for the delivery of healthcare. NHS sources said the outage caused disrupt
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This live blog is now closed. Tell us: have you been affected by the Microsoft outage? Microsoft struggles to fix huge outage affecting Outlook and Teams What happened and when will it be fixed? There are plenty of essential services that remain unaffected by the outage, which is largely impacting email systems. The Australian Medical Association said it has so far not received any reports that hospitals or clinics are impacted. Impact is largely restricted to the sending and receiving of email. Western Australia, along with jurisdictions around the world, is being impacted by a global Microso
