HSE ransomware attack: Thousands of appointments to be cancelled into next week

Thousands of patients face cancelled appointments into next week at least as the HSE continues to battle the ransomware attack which crippled its IT systems from early yesterday morning.

HSE chief clinical officer Dr Colm Henry insisted the problem could be resolved in “a number of days”. Yet even as he was speaking hospitals were already cancelling appointments for next week with a number saying they are cancelled “until further notice”.