Are you affected by this? Contact our news desk at online@lbc.co.uk A critical incident has been declared and Guy’s and St Thomas’ and Kings College hospital have cancelled operations. Staff were unable to access an IT system needed for blood transfusions, LBC understands.The IT hack affects the systems used by those two hospitals as well as the Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals.Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals have been forced to cancel all transplant surgery.
“This is having a major impact on the delivery of our services, with blood transfusions being particularly affected.“Some activity has already been cancelled or redirected to other providers at short notice as we prioritise the clinical work that we are able to safely carry out.”Clinical staff were told that “our pathology partner Synnovis experienced a major IT incident earlier today.”The husband of a patient asked yesterday: "My wife has a phlebotomy appointment at 7.