{"id":16874,"date":"2026-11-13T12:31:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T12:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/microsoft-outage-disrupts-uk-health-services-delays-patient-referrals\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T12:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T12:31:03","slug":"microsoft-outage-disrupts-uk-health-services-delays-patient-referrals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/microsoft-outage-disrupts-uk-health-services-delays-patient-referrals\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft outage disrupts UK health services, delays patient referrals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"52.477140482128\">\n<p class=\"p1\">An issue affecting Microsoft products around the world was having a \u201cserious impact\u201d on Britain\u2019s state health service, a union leader warned on Friday in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">National Health Service staff receiving emergency calls were \u201cunable to refer patient details in the normal way, which is creating a massive backlog and has the potential for chaos\u201d, Rachel Harrison, public services head at the GMB union, said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She added, however, that \u201cemergency and life-threatening call-outs appear to be unaffected\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Microsoft ruled out \u201cmalicious\u201d activity for an outage that has left probably millions without access or with limited access to its services, including Outlook and Teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">NHS bodies published messages on social media reporting difficulties with Microsoft services.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">The National Pharmacy Association, which represents independent pharmacies, told AFP that the problem was affecting their members\u2019 \u201cability to communicate\u201d with doctors\u2019 offices, causing delays in dealing with patients\u2019 prescriptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">AFP<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#deaab6bbbbbab7aab1ac9eaeabb0bdb6b0b9f0bdb1b3\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"84f0ece1e1e0edf0ebf6c4f4f1eae7eceae3aae7ebe9\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An issue affecting Microsoft products around the world was having a \u201cserious impact\u201d on Britain\u2019s state health service, a union leader warned on Friday in a statement. National Health Service&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}