Microsoft outage and impact on digital communications systems

A global Microsoft outage is impacting some of our digital communications systems this morning, including usage of Outlook and Teams .All our clinical and patient administrative systems are working and we are awaiting status updates from Microsoft.

The receipt of emails to our teams could be significantly delayed during this time and we apologise for any disruption caused.

We’re monitoring the service status with hourly updates posted by Microsoft and will update with further information as it becomes available or when service is restored.

There are currently no reports of this global outage causing disruption to any of our clinical systems or impacting patient care.

Patients should continue to attend hospital as normal both for emergencies and appointments.