The blood donor service for England has issued a fresh call for donors after warning that stocks remain precarious owing to a cyberattack almost three months ago.1
After a ransomware attack on 3 June on Synnovis, a provider of pathology services, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) issued an amber alert asking hospitals to restrict the use of O type blood to essential cases and to use substitutions where clinically safe to do so, as stocks of blood dropped to “unprecedentedly low levels.”2
The incident affected Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, the Evelina London Children’s Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital (both run by …
