NHS workers and patients on how cyber-attack has affected them

Claims that patient care has been unaffected are dismissed by doctors, nurses, pharmacists and patients

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Officials have claimed in the wake of the global ransomware attack that patient care has been unaffected despite 45 NHS sites being hit.

But hospitals across England and Scotland were forced to cancel routine procedures and divert emergency cases in the wake of the attack, which has shut down access to computers in almost 100 countries. Here, patients and NHS workers reveal how the crisis has affected them: