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Urgent care to continue as normal on Monday

May 16, 2021 09:27
By News Northern Sound
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Urgent care to continue as normal on Monday

Other appointments will be scaled back or cancelled.

The HSE has told staff to protect urgent care - as the health service tries to deal with the impact of a major cyber attack.

The IT systems were targetted by hackers on Friday - and it's led to thousands of appointments in the coming week being cancelled.

Chemotherapy and dialysis services are continuing as normal, but radiology is among the areas scaled back.

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Dr Denis McCauley from the Irish Medical Organisation's GP committee says there will be some disruption to routine appointments.

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