On the frontline: How our health service is coping in wake of cyberattack

Back to basics for staff already exhausted by pandemic, while patients struggle with delays and uncertainty

Michelle Kingston, an emergency department nurse at CUH. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

It has been an unprecedented week for patients and staff across Ireland’s health service, with a cyberattack causing systems to revert to 1970s levels of technology. 

It is a further blow to morale for health workers already exhausted by the pandemic, while patients anxiously wait to find out when their treatment can proceed.