London NHS hospitals revert to paper records after cyber-attack

Disruption has affected wider range of health providers than first thought, including GPs and community and mental health services

A cyber-attack thought to have been carried out by a Russian group has forced London NHS hospitals to resurrect long-discarded paper records systems in which porters hand-deliver blood test results because IT networks are disrupted.

Guy's and St Thomas' trust (GSTT) has gone back to using paper, rather than computers, to receive the outcome of patients' blood tests.