Cyber attack on HSE system continues to impact local appointments

All outpatients services at Our Lady’s Hospital Navan are cancelled for the moment, as the fallout from the cyber attack on HSE IT systems continues to bite.

Emergency services remain open across the Ireland East Hospital Group (IEHG), including Navan, but remain extremely busy.

"We ask that patients consider their care options and only attend the ED in an emergency. Non urgent patients may expect long delays in being seen," said a spokesperson for the group of hospitals.

"We would ask that patients who do have scheduled appointments for next week to please pay attention to updates on services as hospitals may not be able to access information in order to call and cancel appointments.

"Updates on service disruption will be posted on the HSE Service Disruption Website Appointment and service updates – HSE IT system cyber attack - HSE.ie

"We encourage all patients to check on these sites for up-to-date service disruption and cancellations for IEHG hospitals."

Meanwhile in Drogheda, emergency and essential inpatient, day care, and outpatient services are operating as normal, but outpatient appointments in diagnostic imaging will not go ahead. The cyber attack on HSE IT systems has caused disruption to hospital appointments and services across the entire country and X-ray appointments are severely affected.

Covid-19 vaccinations will go ahead as planned, and chemotherapy and dialysis are continuing as normal and all emergency services are open

Meanwhile the Child and Family Agency Tusla said that while it continues to be significantly affected by the cyber attack, it stressed that its Child Protection system is open for referrals by phone.

Efforts to restore the systems are ongoing, but it will likely be several days before services return to normal.